Gary V. Engelhardt
Professor, Economics
Melvin A. Eggers Economics Faculty Scholar
Senior Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Research
Degree
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993
Specialties
Housing markets and policies, taxation, saving behavior, pensions, Social Security, and aging
Courses
Fall 2012
Not Teaching
Biography
Gary V. Engelhardt earned a B.A. in economics from Carleton College and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, he is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Senior Research Affiliate in the Center for Policy Research, and Faculty Associate in the Gerontology Center of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public economics and applied econometrics. He also is a TIAA-CREF Institute Fellow, Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) Fellow, member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and Research Associate of the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
Dr. Engelhardt’s specialties are in the economics of aging, household saving, pensions, Social Security, taxation, and housing markets. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. His current research focuses on four areas: the impact of pensions, Social Security, and annuities on the retirement saving and income security of older Americans, sponsored by the Social Security Administration, TIAA-CREF, and the National Institute on Aging; the impact of Medicare Part D prescription drug benefits on insurance coverage, medical expenditures, and health outcomes, sponsored by the Social Security Administration; the impact of public and private long-term care insurance on the housing behavior of the elderly, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging; and the economic evaluation of housing and saving policies targeted to low-income households, including homeownership incentives and asset-building policies such as Individual Development Accounts and children’s savings accounts.
His work and commentary have been featured nationally in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Baltimore Sun, Arizona Republic, Greensboro News-Record, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Portland Oregonian,Reuters, on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, American Public Media’s Marketplace, on Time Warner Cable’s Capital Tonight, and in many industry publications and online, including Dow Jones, Entrepreneur, American Banker, Plan Sponsor, MarketWatch, Investors’ Business Daily, and Morningstar, among others. He has given Congressional testimony on the housing crisis and the potential impact of tax incentives to stimulate housing-market activity.
Before coming to the Maxwell School, Dr. Engelhardt was a tenured faculty member at Dartmouth College. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, Center for Economic Research at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Research Interests
Employer-Provided Pensions, 401(K)s, Social Security, Saving Behavior, Housing Markets and Housing Finance, Household Mobility Economics of Aging, Tax Policy, Home Ownership, Capital Gains Taxation, Estate Taxation