Brandon Lehr Occidental College Department of Economics Fowler Hall 217 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041
Phone: (323) 259-1322 Fax: (323) 259-2704 Email: lehr at oxy dot edu Homepage: http://www.oxy.edu/faculty/brandon-lehr
Education Ph.D. Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010 Thesis Committee: Peter Diamond, Glenn Ellison, and Ivan Werning B.A. Highest Honors in Mathematics and Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 2005
Employment Occidental College, Associate Professor of Economics with Tenure, August 2017-present Assistant Professor of Economics, September 2010-August 2017 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research and Teaching Assistant, 2006-2009 University of California at Berkeley, Research Assistant for Professor Raj Chetty, 2004-2005
Research Fields: Public Finance and Microeconomic Theory
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles “Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Endogenous Negative Duration Dependence.” Public Finance Review 45, no. 3 (2017): 395-422. “Optimal Social Insurance for Heterogeneous Agents with Private Insurance.” Journal of Risk and Insurance 83, no. 2 (2016): 301–333. “Information and Inflation: An Analysis of Grading Behavior.” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy 16, no. 2 (2016): 755–783. “Efficiency Wages with Heterogeneous Agents.” International Game Theory Review 16, no. 3 (2014): 145007-1–145007-23.
Working Papers “Optimal Income Taxation with Social Preferences” “Correction: Albrecht and Vroman’s Nonexistence Proof of Symmetric Nash Equilibrium with Efficiency Wages”
Work in Progress “Health Insurance and the Demand for Disability Benefits”
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Awards, Grants, and Honors 2016
Faculty of the Year Award, Awarded by LGBTQA Students, Occidental College
2014, ‘15
Finalist for The Linda and Tod White Teaching Prize, Occidental College
2011, ‘12, ‘15, ‘17 Nominated for The Donald R. Loftsgordon Memorial Award for Outstanding Teaching, Occidental College 2011-2017
Robinson Scholar Grant, Occidental College
2013
MacArthur International Grant, Occidental College
2011
Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College
2011
Mellon Digital Scholarship Summer Institute Grant, Occidental College
2009
James and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT
2009
Undergraduate Economics Association Teaching Award, MIT
2004
Junior Phi Beta Kappa, University of California at Berkeley
2001-2005
Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship, University of California at Berkeley
Professional Activities Conference Presentations 2015: Western Economic Association International, Honolulu; Southern California Conference in Applied Microeconomics, Claremont McKenna College 2013: Western Economic Association International, Seattle 2012: Western Economic Association International, San Francisco 2011: Western Economic Association International, San Diego
Reviewer American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Education, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers
Teaching Occidental College Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Econ 250: Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017 Game Theory, Econ 305: Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2017 Behavioral Economics, Econ 340: Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2017 Honors Seminar, Econ 499: Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016 Health and Humanity, Cultural Studies Program 51/3: Spring 2013, Fall 2015 Co-Instructors: Professor Clair Morrissey, Department of Philosophy & Professor Kristi UpsonSaia, Department of Religious Studies
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Summer Math Camp, 14.00 (Ph.D.): Summer 2008, Summer 2009 Principles of Microeconomics, 14.01: Spring 2008, Spring 2009 Teaching Assistant for Microeconomic Theory I, 14.121 (Ph.D.): Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009 Teaching Assistant for Microeconomic Theory II, 14.122 (Ph.D.): Fall 2008, Fall 2009
Student Research Advisees Eva Wang (expected 2018) Preston Harry (2017) Samuel Cua (2017) Jessica May (2016) Aleksandra Radojevic (joint advising with Kirsten Wandschneider) (2014) Megan Lang (2013)
Service to Occidental College 2017-2018
Chair, Economics Department Tenure-Track Search Committee
2016-2018
Chair, Subcommittee on Finance
2012-2018
Member, Subcommittee on Finance
2012-2018
Member, Budget and Strategic Advisory Committee
2016-2018
Faculty Representative, Budget & Finance Trustee Committee
2016
Member, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the College Search Committee
2016
Member, Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs/Dean of the College Search Subcommittee
2015
Member, Faculty Learning Community on Quantitative Reasoning
2015
Member, Merit Pay Task Force
2014-2015
Member, Economics Department Tenure-Track Search Committee
2013
Area Coordinator, Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2012-2013
Member, Economics Department Tenure-Track Search Committee
2011-2012
Secretary & Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa
2011-2012
Member, Emergency Preparedness Committee
2011-2012
Member, Economics Department Tenure-Track Search Committee
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Miscellaneous Public Speaking 2016: Tax Policies of the 2016 Democratic Presidential Candidates, KCHUNG Radio Interview 2012: Death and Taxes: Fiscal Policy & the 2012 Presidential Election, Election Series Lecture at Occidental College; Pasadena Senior Curriculum Lecture; and Human Resources Lecture broadcast on KCHUNG radio
Programming Languages Stata, Matlab, LATEX Last updated: August 31, 2017
