Samuel Dodini

Samuel Dodini is a senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and joined the Bank in 2024.

He is an applied labor and public economist whose work spans a variety of topics. His current work focuses on the effects of labor market institutions and competition on workers, income inequality, communities and firms. He also has work on the labor market experiences of immigrants, workers’ human capital development and regional accumulation of talent, and workers’ interactions with the public tax and transfer system.

Samuel is an affiliate at the IZA Institute of Labor and CESifo research networks. From 2021–2024 prior to joining the Bank, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the FAIR Centre at the Norwegian School of Economics. He received his PhD in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University in 2021 and holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brigham Young University.