Courtney C. Coile is an Associate Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 2000.

Coile is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).  She an editor of The Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, an academic journal focusing on the economics and finance of pensions and retirement income programs. Coile also edits the NBER's Bulletin on Aging and Health and has served as a consultant to the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration. Her work has been cited in The Economist and The Wall Street Journal as well as on Forbes.com and msnbc.com.  She has appeared on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and on the New England Cable News network. 

Professor Coile earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her A.B. in Economics from Harvard University.  She was a Visiting Associate Professor at MIT in 2009.

Professor Coile's research centers on issues in the economics of aging, particularly the economic determinants of the retirement decision. Some of her past projects have explored how financial incentives from Social Security and private pensions affect retirement decisions and how couples make retirement decisions.  She is currently working on a book, co-authored with her Wellesley colleague Phillip Levine, on how fluctuations in the labor market, housing market, and stock market affect workers’ retirement decisions and subsequent retiree well-being.

At Wellesley, Professor Coile teaches courses in introductory microeconomics, econometrics, health economics, and public economics.  She has served as a member of the College’s Reaccreditation Steering Committee and is currently the chair of the Agenda Committee, the college-wide committee that places faculty on other college committees and sets the agenda for monthly Academic Council meetings.