Brandon Lehr

Brandon Lehr is an Associate Professor of Economics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, USA. He holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from MIT (2010). As Interim Associate Dean for Curricular Affairs, he contributes to academic administration while maintaining an active teaching and research profile.

• Research areas include optimal public policy, social insurance, and behavioral economics
• Teaching portfolio spans Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory, Public Economics, and Behavioral Economics courses

Research & Publications
As an applied micro theorist, Lehr's work examines:

• Optimal social security design with loss aversion in Public Finance Review
• Unemployment insurance with endogenous negative duration dependence in Public Finance Review
• Social insurance for heterogeneous agents with private insurance in The Journal of Risk and Insurance
• Efficiency wages with heterogeneous workers in International Game Theory Review

His textbook Behavioral Economics: Evidence, Theory, and Welfare (Routledge, 2021) synthesizes empirical anomalies, behavioral modeling approaches, and policy implications across multiple domains including finance, health, development, and education.

Scientific Recognition
Lehr has received:

• Teaching award from Occidental College
• Teaching award from Massachusetts Institute of Technology