Adam is a Senior Economist in the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, where his research focuses on household finance, public economics, labor markets, and small business dynamics. Previously, he was an Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he co-led the Retail and Behavioral Finance Working Group and served as an advisor to the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission. He holds a Ph.D. in applied economics and an M.A. in statistics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in decision theory from Duke University. Adam is a Non-Resident Scholar at Georgetown University and an Affiliate Faculty Member at George Mason University.
Research Topics
Household Finance; Public Economics; Labor Economics; Small Business Dynamics
State Auto-IRA Policies and Firm Behavior: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data
Journal of Public Economics, Volume 247, Article 105403 (2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita Slavov
How Do Firms Respond to State Retirement Plan Mandates?
Economic Inquiry, Volume 63, Issue 1 (2025): 265-288
Adam Bloomfield, Kyung Min Lee, Jay Philbrick, and Sita Slavov
How Do Tax Incentives Influence Employer Decisions to Offer Retirement Benefits?
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 34043 (March 2026)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Shanthi Ramnath, and Sita Slavov
“How Do State Auto-IRA Policies Affect Household Balance Sheets?”
Working Paper (January 2026)
Adam Bloomfield, Ngoc Dao, Kyung Min Lee, and Sita Slavov
“Retirement Plan Access and Participation in the 21st Century United States”
Working Paper (November 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Travis Cyronek, Gopi Shah Goda, Lucas Goodman, and Emerson Sprick
Playing Catch-up with Health Savings
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 34499 (November 2025)
Jacob Berman, Adam Bloomfield, and Sita Slavov
State Auto-IRA Policies and Firm Behavior: Lessons from Administrative Tax Data
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 32817 (April 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Lucas Goodman, Manita Rao, and Sita Slavov
The Allure of Round Number Prices for Individual Investors
Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives, Working Paper 2024-02 (April 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Alycia Chin, and Adam Craig
Decomposing Historical Changes in Employer Costs and Contributions to Inequality
SSRN (March 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Travis Cyronek, and Christos Makridis
How Do State Retirement Savings Policies Affect Labor Supply?
Georgetown University Center for Retirement Initiatives, Working Paper 2024-01 (March 2025)
Adam Bloomfield, Ngoc Dao, and Manita Rao
How Do Firms Respond to State Retirement Plan Mandates?
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 31398 (June 2024)
Adam Bloomfield, Kyung Min Lee, Jay Philbrick, and Sita Slavov
“Introducing a Concise Measure of Household Wealth”
Working Paper (August 2022)
Adam Bloomfield, Alycia Chin, and Angela Fontes