Courtney Coile

Courtney C. Coile is an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College, where she has taught since 2000.

She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Associate of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. Coile 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. She has appeared on the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS and on the New England Cable News network, among other media, speaking on the topics of Social Security and retirement.

Professor Coile earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an A.B. in economics from Harvard University.

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, how couples make retirement decisions, and whether the stock market boom and bust of the last decade affected the labor supply of older workers.

At Wellesley, Professor Coile teaches courses in introductory microeconomics, econometrics, health economics and public economics.

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