Andrew Samwick

Andrew A. Samwick is the Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving '72a P'10 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, contributing to the Business & Economics faculty. He joined the faculty in 1994 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2000, full professor in 2001, and to his current endowed chair in 2010. Samwick served as Chair of the Department of Economics from July 2021 to June 2023 and as Director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences from July 2004 to June 2019. Other significant appointments include Chief Economist on the staff of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2004, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University Graduate School of Business in 1998, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 2000. His academic background includes a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and an A.B. summa cum laude in Economics from Harvard College in 1989.

Samwick’s research in applied microeconomics explores the interface between public and private sectors, the role of uncertainty in economic decisions and well-being, and the incentives-insurance tradeoff. His early work addressed Social Security, pensions, saving, taxation, portfolio choice, and executive compensation, while recent scholarship includes social entrepreneurship and education finance. Select publications are “The Insurance Value of Financial Aid” (Education Finance and Policy, 2025, with Kristy Fan and Tyler J. Fisher), “Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods” (Global Finance Journal, 2024, with Sophie Wang), “The Welfare Cost of Perceived Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from Social Security” (American Economic Review, 2018, with Erzo Luttmer), “How Will 401(k) Plans Affect Retirement Income?” (American Economic Review, 2004, with Jonathan Skinner), “Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition: U.S. Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s” (Journal of Public Economics, 2003, with James Poterba), and “The Nature of Precautionary Wealth” (Journal of Monetary Economics, 1997, with Christopher Carroll). He has earned the New Hampshire Professor of the Year award (2009), Dartmouth Class of 1964 Outstanding Leadership Award (2019), Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement (2000), and Duke TIP Distinguished Alumnus Award (2016). Samwick serves as Editor of the National Tax Journal since 2023 and Associate Editor of Economics Letters since 2015, among other editorial contributions.

Professional Email: andrew.samwick@dartmouth.edu