Overview
Courtney Coile is a professor of economics at Wellesley College and co-director of the NBER Retirement and Disability Research Center (RDRC). Her research focuses on retirement behavior, Social Security policy, and how health insurance access affects retirement decisions. She co-edits the NBER cross-national project on international retirement incentive reforms with Axel Börsch-Supan.
Key Contributions / Features
- NBER RRC synthesis (Brown, Choi, Coile, and Woodbury 2020): Co-authored five-year synthesis of RRC work on SS claiming, behavioral saving, and health-financial well-being interactions.
- International retirement incentives (Börsch-Supan and Coile forthcoming): Documented how reforms in the U.S. and 11 other high-income countries changed financial incentives to retire over the last three decades; found most reforms reduced effective tax on work at older ages.
- Health insurance and early retirement (Coe and Goda 2014): Showed that state guaranteed-issue and community-rating insurance regulations increase monthly retirement probability at age 63 by 2.2 pp.
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