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Andrew G. Biggs
Former Social Security analyst and Assistant Director of the Project on Social Security Choice
Andrew Biggs is a former Social Security analyst and Assistant Director of the Cato Institute's Project on Social Security Choice. Prior to joining Cato he was Director of Research at the Congressional Institute in Washington, D.C. (where he remains a Fellow), and a staff member for the House Banking and Financial Services Committee. He holds a Bachelor's degree from the Queen's University of Belfast, Master's from Cambridge University and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
In 2001 Biggs served as a staff member for the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security, and in 2002 he was appointed by the Bush administration as a delegate to the National Summit on Retirement Savings and addressed the United Nations International Conference on Financing for Development. He has been published or quoted in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Investors Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, CNNfn, Fox News Channel, Bloomberg Television, National Review, and others.
Cato Studies
"Large Accounts and Small Cash Deficits: Increasing Personal Account Size within a Fiscally Responsible Social Security Reform Framework," Social Security Choice Paper no. 30, April 25, 2003.
"Failing by a Wide Margin: Methods and Findings in the 2003 Social Security Trustees Report," Briefing Paper no. 82, April 22, 2003.
"Personal Accounts in a Down Market: How Recent Stock Market Declines Affect the Social Security Reform Debate," Briefing Paper no. 74, September 10, 2002.
"Perspectives on the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security," Social Security Choice Paper no. 27, August 22, 2002.
"Social Security: Is It "A Crisis that Doesn’t Exist"?," Social Security Choice Paper no. 21, October 5, 2000.
Opinion and Commentary
"Close the Government Pension Loophole for Texas Teachers," Cato.org, April 14, 2003
"The AARP: Honest Broker or Honestly Broken?," Cato.org, January 28, 2003
"Dems' Risky Tax Scheme," New York Post, January 5, 2003
"Cutting Corporate Welfare Could Fund a Bush Social Security Plan," by Andrew Biggs and Maya MacGuineas, Los Angeles Times, December 31, 2002
"The Stock Market and Social Security Reform," Cato.org, September 21, 2002
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