Daniel Chen : Curriculum Vitae

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EDUCATION

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
JD, 2009

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2006

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
PhD, Economics, 2004

Oxford University, Oxford, UK
Visiting Scholar, Nuffield College, 1999-2000

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
SM, Applied Mathematics/Economics, 1999
AB, Applied Mathematics/Economics, summa cum laude, 1999

EXPERIENCE

University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL
Kauffman Fellow, 2009-2010

University of Chicago Economics Department, Chicago, IL
Lecturer, 2004-2005

Teaching

Harvard University Economics Department, Cambridge, MA
Hermemetrics Lab, 2009

• Lead students to evaluate the effects of interpretations and the law via random assignment of interpreters, experimentally manipulate legal rules in contextualized field settings, and explore historical sources of interpretations. Received departmental funding for curriculum development.

Hermemetrics: The Economics of Interpretation, 2008

• Created guided research class in economics department investigating empirical topics in the law, including human rights (gender and ideological violence), mechanism design (theory, politics, and experiments), interpretation (agreeing to disagree, evaluation via randomization), and interpretive institutions. Teaching rating: 4.5/5.0 scale relative to average tutorial score of 3.9.

University of Chicago Economics Department, Chicago, IL
Theorizing Cultural Differences: The Economics of Fundamentalism, 2005

• Designed new course for advanced undergraduates. Taught applied econometrics and discussed papers from development economics, labor economics, political economy, and micro theory.

Harvard University Engineering Sciences, Cambridge, MA
Decision Theory (graduate level), 1998

• Undergraduate teaching fellow for 20 students.

Work

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Researcher, 2006-2009

• Assisted Judge Richard Posner and Professor Andrei Shleifer on whether law evolves towards efficiency and on transparency of corporate boards. Investigated market-based solutions to gender inequality and access to justice. Invited talks in Germany, France, Belgium, Israel, and Mongolia.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom, New York, NY
Associate, Summer 2008

• Studied tax consequences of restructuring distressed firms and debt-equity boundary for hybrid instruments. Assisted drafting of appellate briefs and deposition of expert for two-sided markets antitrust case. Drafted asylum affidavit.

NERA Economic Consulting, New York, NY
Consultant, 2006

• Managed litigation analyses on whether mutual funds satisfied fiduciary duty in passing economies of scale to investors. Initiated research program on welfare consequences of physician pharmaceutical choice and conflict of interest in pharmaceutical payments to physicians.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Research Affiliate, 2004-2006

• Published independent research on how beliefs interact with market forces, including (i) impact of financial crisis on Islamic resurgence, (ii) market consequences of incomplete marriage contracts, and (iii) market explanation for religion’s role in politics. Over 40 presentations in US, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Italy, and Indonesia.

Hundred Villages, Banjarnegara, Indonesia
Field Research, 2004

• Interviewed government officials, NGOs, journalists, village leaders, imams, and households on role of social groups in mediating financial crisis. Visited and collected financial data at four madrassah and seminaries.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Research Assistant, Summer 2000

• Assisted Professor Eric Maskin on how intellectual property rights may inhibit sequential innovation and on theoretical research regarding Markov Perfect Equilibria.

International Child Support Africa, Busia, Kenya
Consultant, Summer 1999

• Co-authored paper on impact of randomized monetary incentives for Kenyan preprimary teachers.
• Managed and trained 10 data personnel to find and fix inconsistencies. Visited schools and interviewed officials.

World Bank, Washington, DC
Consultant, Summer 1998

• Analyzed data and wrote paper on prospective evaluation of educational interventions in Kenyan preschools. Improved data collection method to reduce ambiguous data. Wrote undergraduate thesis published in American Economic Review and Journal of Economic Growth. Illustrated how fertility differentials exacerbate persistent inequality by solving dynamical system.

Cornerstone Research, Cambridge, MA
Analyst, Summer 1997

• Modeled derivatives to ascertain firm’s purpose in tax strategy. Automated securities litigation analyses of share price drops. Presented currently used product at office-wide meeting.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Economic Association
Econometric Society
American Law and Economics Association
Society for Empirical Legal Studies