Andrew Alan Samwick is an American

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, who served as Chief Economist on the staff of the

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from July 2003 to July 2004. Samwick is currently Professor of Economics at

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

(since 1994) and the director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences. He has also held teaching positions at

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’s Graduate School of Business. In 2009, Samwick was named the New Hampshire Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is also a current editor of

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Education

Samwick received an A.B. summa cum laude and was a member of

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in Economics at

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in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in Economics at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1993. At MIT, he was the recipient of several grants and fellowships including: the

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, Pre-doctoral Training Grant (1992–1993), the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1992–1993) and the

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Graduate Fellowship (1989–1992).

Research and advising

Samwick has consulted for the

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, the U.S. Social Security Administration, the

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, and the

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. Professor Samwick has also offered Congressional testimony on Social Security and retirement issues. He is a research associate of the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

and the co-organizer of its Social Security Working Group. His research interests include: finance, macroeconomics,

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, and

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. His work has appeared in ''

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'', '' The Journal of Political Economy'' and ''

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'' among others. In 2000, Professor Samwick was awarded Dartmouth's Karen E. Wetterhahn Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement. Writing on his blog in 2007, Samwick urged his former colleagues in the Bush administration to avoid asserting that the

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paid for themselves, because "No thoughtful person believes t...Not a single one."

References

External links

About the Director
— Rockefeller Center
Publications by Andrew Samwick
— National Bureau of Economic Research
Andrew Samwick's Blog
— Andrew Samwick's Blog about Economics, Politics, and Current Events * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Samwick, Andrew Harvard College alumni MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni Columbia Business School faculty Dartmouth College faculty 21st-century American economists Living people Bradley Foundation Fellows Year of birth missing (living people)