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Bradley Heim, Ph.D., is Professor and Director of the School of Public Admnistration, a role he has held since July, 2025.

Prior to joining the University of Central Florida, Dr. Heim was a Professor at Indiana University, where he served as Executive Associate Dean from 2019-2024. Dr. Heim previously worked as a Financial Economist at the U.S. Department of Treasury in the Office of Tax Analysis, where he was responsible for analyzing proposals related to housing and retirement savings.

• Behavioral Impacts of Tax Policy
• Tax Compliance
• Health Policy

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

Dr. 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. He 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, as well as the determinants of tax noncompliance and the implications of such noncompliance on measure of income inequality. 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.

In current work, Dr. Heim is investigating the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 on self-employment, state and local government finances, and charitable giving and volunteering, and is examining the role the impact of tax rates on income tax noncompliance.

Dr. Heim has published over 40 peer-reviewed publications in numerous high profile journals including the Journal of Public Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources, among others. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and USA Today.

• Public Human Resource Management
• Organization Behavior
• Comparative Public Administration

Dr. Heim currently serves as the Director of the School of Public Administration in the College of Community Innovation and Education. Previously, Dr. Heim served as Executive Associate Dean of the O’Neill School at Indiana University, in which he oversaw academic programs at the undergraduate, Master’s, and doctoral levels, as well as the school’s finance, human resources, information technology, and building services operations. Dr. Heim also served on the Board of Directors of the Indiana University Credit Union from 2016-2025.

Musgrave Prize, Best Paper in the National Tax Journal, 2024