Judith A. Chevalier
William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics
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Judith A. Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics 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.
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
- BA, Yale University, 1989
Selected Works
Articles
- Distributional Impacts of Retail Vaccine Availability
J.A. Chevalier, J. L. Schwartz, Y. Su, and K. R. Williams
Journal of Urban Economics
2021 - Nursing home staff networks and COVID-19
M. K. Chen, J. A. Chevalier, and E. F. Long
PNAS
2021 - The Value of Flexible Work: Evidence from Uber Drivers
M. K. Chen, J. Chevalier, Peter E. Rossi, and Emily Oehlsen
Journal of Political Economy
Volume 127, Issue 6
2019 - Best Prices: Price Discrimination and Consumer Substitution
J. Chevalier and A. Kashyap
American Economic Journals: Policy
2019 - Comment on ‘Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization
J. Chevalier
Economics of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chicago Press
2019 - Channels of Impact: User Reviews when Quality is Dynamic and Managers Respond
J. Chevalier, D. Mayzlin, and Y. Dover
Marketing Science
2018
Working Papers
- Is Habit a Powerful Policy Instrument to Induce Prosocial Behavioral Change?
J. Caro-Burnett, J. A. Chevalier, and A. M. Mobarak
2021 - Suppliers and Demanders of Flexibility: The Demographics of Gig Work
M. K. Chen, J. A. Chevalier, P. E. Rossi, and L. Currier
2021
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
Achievements
- Elected Fellow, Econometric Society, 2013-Present
- William F. O’Dell Award, Journal of Marketing Research, 2011
- Elected member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2006-present
- Elected member, American Economic Association Executive Committee, 2005-2008
- Elaine Bennett Prize, 1999
- Sloan Research Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1997-1999