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Taha Choukhmane is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, specializing in finance and household finance, drawing from behavioral economics to explore how households make saving and investment decisions. He completed his PhD in economics at Yale University, where he was awarded the George Trimis Dissertation Prize. Choukhmane's research interests focus on the behavioral biases affecting retirement savings plan participants, examining how these biases influence investment portfolio allocation and the coordination of saving decisions among married couples. He also investigates design aspects of retirement saving incentives and their contributions to racial wealth inequality. Choukhmane has received a grant from the Social Security Administration and was a dissertation fellow at the Boston College Center for Retirement Research. He works to integrate insights from economic theory and behavioral practices to inform policies that enhance household financial well-being.
MIT Sloan School of Management • Cambridge, MA
Teaching and researching finance with a focus on behavioral economics and household saving decisions.