Jeffrey Brown, Courtney Coile, and James Choi lead Retirement Research Center.

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Jeffrey Brown, the Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor and dean of the business school at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the new director of the NBER Retirement Research Center. Brown's work has touched on many issues related to retirement security, saving, and the provision of lifetime income.

Assistant directors of the center are James Choi, professor of finance at Yale University's School of Management, and Courtney Coile, the professor of economics and director of the Knapp Social

Science Center at Wellesley College. Choi has done pioneering work on how defaults and other plan design features...