Marty Haoyuan Chen

Welcome! I am a PhD candidate in the Economics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am a 2026-2027 NBER Doctoral Dissertation Fellow.

I'm an applied microeconomist working on education markets and information. Drawing on administrative records, survey data, and laboratory experiments, I study how families invest in their children's education, what students and firms choose to reveal about themselves, and how these decisions allocate educational opportunity and shape market outcomes. I am also interested in how generative AI is reshaping the decisions behind these outcomes. These projects speak to policy, both in evaluating existing interventions and in informing the design of new ones.

Here's my Curriculum Vitae.

You can contact me at hchen915@umd.edu.