Alex Chan (陳斌教授/陈斌教授)
Economist
Harvard University
Baker Library 447 - T/W/F
Littauer Center (Econ) 225 - M/R
617-495-8674 (vm); 617-384-1016 (Skye)
Support Staff: Skye Tait (stait@hbs.edu)
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I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School, an Associate at the Harvard Business School AI Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER
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Economics of AI
Research Fields:
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Health Economics
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Experimental and Behavioral Economics
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Market Design
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Labor Economics
Research
(with Alvin E. Roth)
(with Alvin E. Roth)
Conditionally Accepted (data editor), American Economic Review
(with Kurt Sweat)
2021, New England Journal of Medicine 385: 766-768
2020, JAMA 323(3): 278-279
(with Kevin Schulman)
2020, JAMA Health Forum 1(3): e200291
1st author (with Isabel Chien, Edward Moseley, Saad Salman, Sarah Kaminer Bourland, Daniela Lamas, Anne M Walling, James A Tulsky, Charlotta Lindvall)
2019, Palliative Medicine 33(2): 187-196
Papers & Presentations
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(with Ayush Gupta and Yetong Xu)
Preference for AI as Manager
(with Ilaria Prometti)
Patient Preferences for Artificial Intelligence in Primary Care: An Adaptive Price-List Experiment
(with Yetong Xu and David Cutler)
AI, Teams, and Productivity
2021, Stanford University Working Paper
Implementation of liver exchange using algorithm from this paper: Launching Liver Exchange and the First 3-Way Liver Paired Donation (2022, JAMA Surgery) ; see also Liver Exchange: A Pathway to Increase Access to Transplantation
Difference in Deliberations
(with Melisa Kurtis and Nathalie Romer)
Draft coming soon
Draft coming soon
Controversial Uses of AI
(with Melisa Kurtis)
Witness to a Merger: Competition and Quality in the Market for Dialysis
(with Thomas Brown, John Hatfield, Kurt Sweat)
Teaching
HBSDOC 4430/ECON 2721: Field Experiments
Spring 2025, Spring 2026, Harvard University, Primary Instructor
HBS 2240: Negotiations
Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Harvard University, Primary Instructor
BIOS 203: Market Design and Field Experiments for Health Policy and Medicine
Fall 2021, Stanford University, Primary Instructor
HPM 206: Economic Analysis
Fall 2017, Harvard University, Head Teaching Assistant