Expertise

Areas of Interest:

  • Impact of income taxes on individual behavior
  • Impact of audits on tax compliance
  • Affordable Care Act and labor market outcomes
  • Causes of increasing income inequality

Bradley Heim's expertise is in the behavioral impacts of tax policy, particularly how the income tax system affects the behavior of individuals, households, and businesses.

Heim has studied how the income tax impacts income and earnings, labor supply, consumption, employment mode, health insurance purchases, charitable giving, and savings. He has also examined the impact of tax audits on subsequent taxpaying among individuals and corporations. Other research has examined how recent changes in health insurance laws impact labor market outcomes, and has studied the causes of recent increases in income inequality.

Expert in public finance, labor economics, and econometrics


Areas:

  • Social Health
  • Public Finance & Economics
  • Policy Analysis
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Social Sciences, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University (past)

Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Environmental Policy, Public Administration
Degrees
PhD, Northwestern University, Economics, 2002
BA, Johns Hopkins University, Economics and Mathematical Sciences, 1997