Andrew Chamberlain is an Adjunct Fellow at the Tax Foundation. He specializes in public finance economics and has written widely on tax and budget policy. His previous studies include econometric estimates of demand elasticities, various estimates of tax and budget incidence, statistical methods for estimating tax burdens by narrow geographic areas, and using input-output models to estimate tax pyramiding and the distribution of household burdens from environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems.
His work has been cited in U.S. congressional testimony, NBER working papers, OECD working papers, and published in or featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Economist, Newsweek, Tax Notes and others. He has appeared as a television guest on MSNBC's "Connected Coast to Coast," CNBC's "Kudlow & Company" and various radio stations.
Previously he served as staff economist at the Tax Foundation, and at the Cato Institute. While in Washington, Andrew briefed both Democratic and Republican congressional staff on his research as well as analysts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and various think tanks. He currently serves as Chief Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C., based in San Diego, California.
Andrew holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, San Diego, and has studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He holds B.A. degrees in Economics (cum laude) and Business Administration (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington in Seattle.