Bradley T. Heim

Contact Information

U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC 20220

Office: Room 4036B
Phone: (202) 622-1316
Email: bheim20874@comcast.net

Curriculum Vitae

• CV

Education

• Ph.D. Economics, Northwestern University (2002)
• B.A. Economics and Mathematical Sciences, Johns Hopkins University (1997)

Employment

I am currently a Financial Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Duke University.

Research Interests

My interests span public finance, labor economics, and econometrics, but I have a special interest in studying how the tax system affects the behavior of individuals and households along numerous margins.

Some of my current projects examine the extent to which taxable income or some component thereof (such as charitable giving or tax-deferred savings) responds to changes in tax rates, both due to real, long term effects, and due to shifting across years to exploit a tax wedge. Other current projects examine the effects of the tax deductibility of self-employed health insurance on the take-up of health insurance, the amount of insurance purchased, and the decision to be self-employed. Previous work examined the extent to which married and single women's labor supply elasticities have changed over the past few decades, evaluated the effects of the EGTRRA 2001 and JGTRRA 2003 tax changes on the labor supply of married couples, evaluated the effect of the EITC on the labor supply of married couples, and used state tax changes to study consumers' responses to tax rebates.

Working Papers

• Single Women's Labor Supply Elasticities: Trends and Policy Implications with Kelly Bishop and Kata Mihaly
  Forthcoming: Industrial and Labor Relations Review
  
  
• Do Increased Premium Subsidies Affect How Much Health Insurance Is Purchased? Evidence from the Self-Employed with Ithai Lurie
  Forthcoming: Journal of Health Economics
  
  
• How Does Charitable Giving Respond to Incentives and Income? Dynamic Panel Estimates Accounting for Predictable Changes in Taxation with Jon Bakija
  Revise and Resubmit: National Tax Journal
  
  
• The Effect of Recent Tax Changes on Tax-Deferred Saving Behavior
  
  
• The Effect of Health Insurance Premium Subsidies on Entry into and Exit from Self-Employment with Ithai Lurie
  
  
• The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from a New Panel of Tax Returns
  
  
• The Responsiveness of Reported Self-Employment Income to Tax Rate Changes
  
  
• The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Supply of Married Couples: A Structural Estimation
  
  
• Structural Labor Supply Models When Budget Constraints are Nonlinear with Bruce Meyer
  

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