Andrew A. Samwick

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Sandra L. and Arthur L. Irving '72a P'10 Professor of Economics

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I joined the faculty of Dartmouth in 1994. My early scholarly work covered a range of topics, including Social Security, pensions, saving, taxation, portfolio choice, and executive compensation. My teaching, and some of my more recent scholarship, has expanded to include other topics, including social entrepreneurship and education finance. I am interested in research questions that probe the interface between the public and private sectors, that consider the importance of uncertainty in economic decisions and well-being, and that explore the incentives-insurance tradeoff that is ubiquitous in economics.

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Andrew.A.Samwick@dartmouth.edu
646-2893
Rockefeller, Room 326
HB 6106

Education

  • A.B. Harvard College, 1989
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993

Selected Publications

  • "The Insurance Value of Financial Aid," Education Finance and Policy, Vol. 20, No. 4 (Fall 2025), 674-703. (with Kristy Fan '17 and Tyler J. Fisher '17)

  • "[The Contributions of ]James M. Poterba (1958 - )." In Robert A. Cord (ed.) The Palgrave Companion to MIT Economics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025, 729 – 760.

  • "Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods," Global Finance Journal 60 (May 2024), 100940. (with Sophie Wang '22)

  • "The Survey of Consumer Finances at Forty: Reflections from an Early User." American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings 2023 (September 2023), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8311674

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Works In Progress

"The Effect of TCJA on Public Education Finance and Expenditures," November 2025, (with Erin Huffer Kramer '17).

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