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Alex Chan 

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

achan@hbs.edu 

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I am an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School 

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  • Economics of AI

Research Fields:

  • Health Economics

  • Experimental and Behavioral Economics

  • Market Design

  • 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

Work In-Progress

(with Ayush Gupta and Yetong Xu)

Preference for AI as Manager

(with Ilaria Prometti)

AI as Doctor

(with 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

AI and Limits to Its Uses in Decision-Making

(with Melisa Kurtis)

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

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