Jiafeng Chen

Jiafeng (Kevin) Chen is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and incoming Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford. His research develops econometric methods for causal inference and decision-making.

Research focuses on:

• Causal inference in structural models
• Empirical Bayes methods
• Statistical decision theory

His publications address demand estimation reinterpretations, measurement error correction, and transformation methods for zero-inflated data. Chen received his PhD from Harvard University where he researched school choice mechanisms and market design.