Jason Chan
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Education:
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PhD 2014Management Information Systems New York University, Stern School of Business
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Bachelor of Computing 2008Management Information Systems National University of Singapore
Expertise:
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Economics of Information Systems
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Health IT
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Econometrics and Experiment Design
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Societal impacts of Internet
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Impacts of Emerging Technological Platforms (Crowd, Sharing Economy, Darknet, AI/GenAI)
Biography
Dr. Jason Chan is an Associate Professor of Information & Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. He holds an interest towards research that has relevant business and policy insights on emerging Internet phenomenon and social outcomes, in various areas including artificial intelligence, healthcare, crime, financial well-being, education, and labor economics. In his research, he adopts a variety of quantitative methods including econometric modeling, experiments and technical methods, to extract meaningful relationships that lies within datasets.
His work has been published in top academic journals and conferences such as Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly. His work is covered by prominent media outlets, including The Economist, The Washington Post, The Economic Times, NBC News, Newsweek, Forbes, and has been cited in policy discussions, including the council of economic advisor's economic report to the president. Dr Chan is a recipient and nominee of several Best Paper Awards in top journals and conferences. He has received Management Science's Best Paper Award in 2020, the AIS Best Published Paper 2014 (selected by senior editors among top MIS journals), the MISQ Best Paper Award 2014, and is awarded the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award in 2021. Jason is the winner of the 2015 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award conferred by INFORMS Information Systems Society. He is an Associate Editor at Management Science and Information Systems Research, and had won the Best Associate Editor Awards at both these journals. He also served as Track Chair and Associate Editor at the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS), and has been awarded the two Best Associate Editor Awards (ICIS 2016, 2017). He is the two-time recipient of the Distinguished Service Award at Management Science, and has also won two Best Reviewer Awards at ISR and MISQ. He served the broader IS community as the Vice President of the Informs Information Systems Society for two terms (2019-2023). In 2018, he was named by Poets & Quants as one of the Top 40 Professors Under 40 Worldwide.
Jason has taught at various levels, including courses in the Undergraduate, part-time MBA, full-time MBA, executive MBA, PhD, and DBA level. He has delivered courses both in the traditional classroom setting and in online modes. Notably, he has a well attended Coursera course on Enterprise Systems. His teaching efforts have earned him a Carlson Teaching Award in 2019. He has received over 50 speaking invitations at academic and industry settings globally. Apart from his pedagogical duties, he enjoys mentoring PhD students, some of which have resulted in award-winning research, including Best Paper Awards at ICIS, AoM Best Paper, WITS Best Student Paper, ISS and WITS Dissertation Award, and Best Paper Nominee at WISE.
Selected Works & Activities
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Journal ArticlesLarge Language Model in Creative Work: The Role of Collaboration Modality and User Expertise
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Journal ArticlesRun Forrest Run!”: Measuring the Impact of App-Enabled Performance and Social Feedback on Athletic and Usage Outcomes
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Journal ArticlesContextual Targeting in mHealth Apps: Harnessing Weather Information and Message Framing to Increase Physical Activity
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Journal ArticlesBetter to Give than to Receive? Impact of Adding a Donation Scheme to Reward-based Crowdfunding Campaigns
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Journal ArticlesShedding Light on the Dark: The Impact of Legal Enforcement on Darknet Transactions
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Journal ArticlesMeasuring the impact of crowdsourcing features on mobile app user engagement and retention: A randomized field experiment
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Journal ArticlesInvestigating the Relationship between Medical Crowdfunding and Personal Bankruptcy in the United States: Evidence of a Digital Divide
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Journal ArticlesThe Digital Sin City: An Empirical Study of Craigslist's Impact on Prostitution Trends
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Journal ArticlesHiring Preferences in Online Labor Markets: Evidence of a Female Hiring Bias
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Journal ArticlesBattle of the Channels: The Impact of Tablets on Digital Commerce
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Journal ArticlesThe Internet and Racial Hate Crimes: Offline Spillovers from Online Access
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Journal ArticlesInternet's Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Online Intermediaries on HIV Transmission
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Reviewer for Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, Organization Science, Production and Operations Management, Economic Inquiry, Social Science and Medicine
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Associate Editor @ ISR, Associate Editor @ Management Science, Editor for Special Issue of "Data Analytics for Sustainability" @ Information & Management Journal, Track Chair @ ICIS 2019, AE @ ICIS 2015-2018
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NET Institute Grant, Dean's Small Grant, GMU Economics and Privacy Fellowship
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MIS Quarterly Best Paper 2014, Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award 2015 (INFORMS IS Society), AIS Senior Editors' Best Published Paper 2014 (Selected by senior editors from the top 8 MIS journals), Best Associate Editor for ICIS 2016/2017, Management Science Distinguished Service Award (2017, 2018), ISR Best Reviewer of the Year 2018, MISQ Best Reviewer of the Year 2018, Best Paper Award at WHITE 2011, Best Paper Nominee at ICIS 2014, Best Track Paper ICIS 2018
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The Role of Physical Stores in Multichannel Retailing: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Product-level Analysis (with Yaqiong Wang, Kaiquan Xu, Xi Chen)
“Run Forrest Run!”: Measuring the Impact of App-Enabled Social and Performance Feedback on Running Performance (with Yash Babar, Ben Choi)
Large Language Model in Creative Work: The Role of Collaboration Modality and User Expertise (with Alan Chen)
Are Contests Effective for Online Labor Markets? (with Nila Zhang, Jiahui Mo and Tingting Nian)