James Choi is Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. His primary research is in household finance and behavioral finance; his work on automatic enrollment has led to changes in pension plan design around the world. He has also published research on the effects of social identity and how to use psychology to increase preventive health behaviors.
Professor Choi is a two-time recipient of the TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award for outstanding scholarly writing on lifelong financial security. He has served as a Co-Director of the Retirement and Disability Research Center at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Associate Editor at the Journal of Finance and Management Science, and a member of the FINRA Investor Issues Committee and the American Finance Association’s Ethics and Governance Committees. He holds a PhD in economics and an AB in applied mathematics from Harvard University.
TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award, 2018 (with J. Beshears, D. Laibson, and B.C. Madrian), 2011 (with D. Laibson and B.C. Madrian) 40 Under 40 Most Outstanding MBA Professors, Poets & Quants, 2016 NBER Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Aging and Health Economics, 2003-2005 Harvey Fellow, Mustard Seed Foundation, 2003-2005 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2000-2003 Hoopes Prize for excellence in Harvard undergraduate research, 1998 Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1998
