Judith A. Chevalier

Judith A. Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics and Faculty Director for the Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact at the Yale School of Management. Professor Chevalier’s research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization.  Her research focuses on the impacts of new technologies on firms, individuals, and policy.  She has written extensively on the economics of the retail sector – both in ecommerce and brick and mortar, with a particular interest in consumer product reviews. She has written extensively on career choice, career concerns, incentives, job flexibility and gig work. She has also written a series of papers exploring the overlap between finance and industrial organization. Her COVID-19 work includes an early study of masking, a geospatial study of the movement of nursing home workers across facilities and the spread of the virus, and a study of retail vaccine availability. She is the chair of the American Economic Association’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the Rand Journal of Economics and an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. 

Selected Media Coverage

Yale Study: Dollar General Could Be a Solution to the Vaccine Access Equation
New Haven Register
April 27, 2021

COVID Vaccines at Dollar General Would Boost Access for Low-Income Populations, Study Says
Marketplace
April 8, 2021

Nursing Home Workers Had One of the Deadliest Jobs of 2020
Scientific American
February 18, 2021