Taha Choukhmane is the Albert F. (1942) & Jeanne P. Clear Career Development Associate Professor in Global Management an Associate Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

He was most recently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research interests lie at the intersection of household finance and behavioral economics, with a focus on households’ saving decisions.

Taha received his PhD in economics at Yale University, where he was awarded the George Trimis Dissertation Prize. He is the recipient of a grant from the Social Security Administration, and he was a dissertation fellow of the Boston College Center for Retirement Research and a graduate policy fellow at Yale’s Institute of Social and Policy Studies.

Current Research Focus: Choukhmane studies the drivers of household saving and investment decisions, and how employer and government policies influence lifelong financial security. His current research examines how 401(k) plan design affects retirement preparedness and inequality, how increasing retirement contributions affects other aspects of household finances (including debt and spending), and whether artificial intelligence can provide quality personal financial advice.