Biography

Marc Chan is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Melbourne. His research develops and applies structural econometric methods to address policy-relevant questions in labour economics and public finance. He is particularly interested in modeling dynamic decision-making under uncertainty, equilibrium effects, and heterogeneity in behavioral responses. His recent work includes dynamic models of welfare participation, job search and matching, human capital accumulation, and family decision-making; estimation techniques for heterogeneous agents and hyperbolic discounting; and methodological advances for program evaluation in the presence of stochastic trends.

On the empirical side, Professor Chan has examined the impacts of welfare reform, minimum wages, child care, and retirement savings incentives, and has contributed to the design and evaluation of tax-transfer systems. His work provides tools for simulating counterfactual policies and understanding distributional impacts. His research has appeared in leading journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quantitative Economics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Annual Review of Economics. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics from Johns Hopkins University.