He joined the faculty in 2005 after working as a researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Professor Zinman obtained his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002, and a B.A. in government from Harvard in 1993. In addition to his work at Dartmouth, Professor Zinman also serves as a member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council, a visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia,, a member of the Behavioral Finance Forum, a research associate of Innovations for Poverty Action and J-PAL, a Research Advisory Board member of stickk.com, and a member of the new Sage/Sloan Foundations working group on Behavioral Economics and the Regulation of Retail Financial Markets.