Judith Chevalier ’89

Judith A. Chevalier is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Economics and faculty director for the Program on Social Enterprise, Innovation, and Impact at the Yale School of Management. Chevalier’s research is in the areas of both finance and industrial organization. Her research focuses on the impacts of new technologies on firms, individuals, and policy. Chevalier  has written extensively on the economics of the retail sector—both in ecommerce and brick and mortar, with a particular interest in consumer product reviews—as well as career choice, career concerns, incentives, job flexibility, and gig work. She has also written a series of papers exploring the overlap between finance and industrial organization. Chevalier’s work related to the COVID-19 pandemic includes an early study of masking, a geospatial study of the movement of nursing home workers across facilities and the spread of the virus, and a study of retail vaccine availability.

She is the president of the Industrial Organization Society and former chair of the American Economic Association’s committee on the status of women in the economics profession. She is a trustee of the Alfred P. Sloan foundation and a former co-editor of the American Economic Review and of the Rand Journal of Economics. Chevalier was named a distinguished fellow of the industrial organization society and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society.