James J Choi

Latest Institution: Yale School of Management

All Institutions: Harvard University; Yale University; Yale School of Management; Guidewell; College of William & Mary


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Based on the Following Papers:

For Better or For Worse: Default Effects and 401(k) Savings Behavior

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte Madrian; Andrew Metrick

Defined Contribution Pension Plan Rules, Participant Decisions, and the Path of Least Resistance

Year: 2001
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Andrew Metrick

Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Andrew Metrick

Employees' Investment Decisions About Company Stock

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Andrew Metrick

Consumption-Wealth Comovement of the Wrong Sign

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Andrew Metrick

Plan Design and 401k Savings Outcomes

Year: 2004
Journal: National Tax Journal
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Optimal Defaults and Active Decisions

Year: 2005
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Gabriel D. Carroll; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte Madrian; Andrew Metrick

100 Bills on the Sidewalk: Suboptimal Investment in 401k Plans

Year: 2005
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Early Decisions: A Regulatory Framework

Year: 2006
Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Reducing the Complexity Costs of 401k Participation through Quick Enrollment

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Simplification and Saving

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Why Does the Law of One Price Fail? An Experiment on Index Mutual Funds

Year: 2006
Journal: Review of Financial Studies
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Savings Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Social Identity and Preferences

Year: 2007
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Daniel J. Benjamin; James J. Choi; A. Joshua Strickland

The Impact of Employer Matching on Savings Plan Participation Under Automatic Enrollment

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Mental Accounting in Portfolio Choice: Evidence from a Flypaper Effect

Year: 2007
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

How Are Preferences Revealed?

Year: 2008
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

How Does Simplified Disclosure Affect Individuals' Mutual Fund Choices?

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

What Does Stock Ownership Breadth Measure

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Finance
Authors: James J. Choi; Li Jin; Hongjun Yan

Religious Identity and Economic Behavior

Year: 2010
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Daniel J. Benjamin; James J. Choi; Geoffrey W. Fisher

Behavioral Economics Perspectives on Public Sector Pension Plans

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

The Availability and Utilization of 401k Loans

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Katherine L. Milkman; John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risktaking?

Year: 2011
Journal: Review of Financial Studies
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Finance
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Katherine L. Milkman

Small Cues Change Savings Choices

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; Emily Haisley; Jennifer Kurkoski; Cade Massey

Following Through on Good Intentions: The Power of Planning Prompts

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Katherine L. Milkman; John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

What Makes Annuitization More Appealing

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Stephen P. Zeldes

Informed Trading and Expected Returns

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: James J. Choi; Li Jin; Hongjun Yan

Who Uses the Roth 401(k) and How Do They Use It?

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Does Frontloading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison

Year: 2015
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; Joshua Hurwitz; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Contributions to Defined Contribution Pension Plans

Year: 2015
Journal: Annual Review of Financial Economics
Authors: James J. Choi

Self Control and Commitment: Can Decreasing the Liquidity of a Savings Account Increase Deposits?

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; Christopher Harris; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; Jung Sakong

Behavioral Household Finance

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

What Matters to Individual Investors: Evidence from the Horses' Mouth

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Finance
Authors: James J. Choi; Adriana Z. Robertson

Randomizing Religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes

Year: 2018
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Gharad T. Bryan; James J. Choi; Dean Karlan

Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose

Year: 2019
Journal: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Building Emergency Savings Through Employer-Sponsored Rainy Day Savings Accounts

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; Mark Iwry; David John; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian

Borrowing to Save: The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

Year: 2019
Journal: Journal of Finance
Authors: John Beshears; James J. Choi; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; William L. Skimmyhorn

Millionaires Speak: What Drives Their Personal Investment Decisions

Year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
Authors: Svetlana Bender; James J. Choi; Danielle Dyson; Adriana Z. Robertson

Optimal Illiquidity

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; James J Choi; Christopher Clayton; Christopher Harris; David Laibson; Brigitte C Madrian

Did Mutual Fund Return Persistence Persist?

Year: 2020
Journal: Critical Finance Review
Authors: James J. Choi; Kevin Zhao

Popular Personal Financial Advice versus the Professors

Year: 2022
Journal: Journal of Economic Perspectives
Authors: James J Choi

Automatic Enrollment with a 12% Default Contribution Rate

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: John Beshears; Ruofei Guo; David Laibson; Brigitte C. Madrian; James J. Choi


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