Taha Choukhmane

Taha Choukhmane is the Class of 1947 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.123 He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.3 Choukhmane's research focuses on household finance, behavioral economics, and public economics, with a particular emphasis on households' saving decisions.23

Choukhmane received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University, where he was awarded the George Trimis Dissertation Prize.12 Prior to joining MIT Sloan, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.2

His current research projects examine:

1. Behavior of participants in retirement savings plans
2. Behavioral biases affecting investment and portfolio-allocation decisions
3. Coordination of saving decisions among married couples
4. Impact of retirement saving incentives design on racial wealth inequality2

Choukhmane has received grants from the Social Security Administration and was a dissertation fellow of the Boston College Center for Retirement Research.2 He is fluent in French, Arabic, and English.1

His LinkedIn username is taha-choukhmane-b9302845.4