Brent Kreider's Home Page

                  Department of Economics
                  460C Heady Hall
                  Iowa State University
                  Ames, IA 50011-1070
                  (515) 294-6237 (ph)
                  (515) 294-0221 (fax)
                  Email: bkreider "at" iastate.edu

Brent Kreider

Associate Professor of Economics, Iowa State University (tenured 2001)
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Editor, Southern Economic Journal (2006-present)
Teaching Coordinator (2003-present)

My wonderful wife, four amazingly sweet (from their mother's side) daughters, and problem pet:

Research Interests: Public Economics, Applied Econometrics, Labor Economics, Health Economics

CV (pdf)

Academic Honors/Awards:

Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council Nomination for Outstanding Teacher, Iowa State University, 2007

Economics Department's Best Teacher Award, University of Virginia, 2000

Economics Department's Best Teacher Award, University of Virginia, 1998

First Place, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award:
John R. Heinz National Academy of Social Insurance, 1995

Bullis Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Distinguished Teaching Assistant award, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Wall Street Journal Award

Phi Beta Kappa / Summa Cum Laude

Course Information:

Microeconomics 101
Graduate Public Economics 545

Grants:

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 2007
($140,000: PIs Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider)
Joint Center for Poverty Research, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2006
($23,000: PIs Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider)
Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 2005
($30,000: PIs Craig Gundersen and Brent Kreider)
Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, University of Michigan, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2004
($100,384: PI Brent Kreider, with Helen Jensen and Sonya Huffman)
Iowa State University TEACH grant, 2003
Joint Center for Poverty Research, Northwestern University / University of Chicago, funded by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2002
($30,000: PIs Brent Kreider and John Pepper)
Steven H. Sandell Grant Program, Center for Retirement Research, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2002
($25,000: PIs Brent Kreider and John Pepper)
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research grant, 2001
($5000: PIs Brent Kreider and John Pepper)
Bankard Fund for Political Economy
($17,000) 1999
Bankard Fund for Political Economy
($16,000) 1998

Referee Service:

American Economic Review	Journal of Econometrics
Journal of Political Economy	Journal of Public Economics
Quarterly Journal of Economics	Journal of Human Resources
Review of Economic Studies	Journal of Labor Economics
International Economic Review	Journal of Applied Econometrics
Review of Economics and Statistics	Journal of Health Economics
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics	Journal of Public Economic Theory
Economic Journal	Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Economic Inquiry	Health Economics
Economic Theory	International Tax and Public Finance
Economica	Labour Economics
Southern Economic Journal	Industrial Relations
Canadian Journal of Economics	FinanzArchiv
Scandinavian Journal of Economics	Social Security Bulletin
Bulletin of Economic Research	Medical Care
Contemporary Economic Policy	Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics
Journal of Economics

I have also served as an external reviewer for tenure cases.

Selected Administrative and Volunteer Service:

Economics Department's Teaching Coordinator: 2003-present
Economic Council: 2002-3, 2003-4, 2005-6 (Vice-Chair), 2007-8 (Chair)
Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Committee: 2005-present
Liberal Arts and Sciences Representative Assembly: 2007-present
Executive Committee: 2008
Graduate Programs Committee: 2005-present
Undergraduate Programs Committee: 2003-present
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: 2001-present
Omicron Delta Epsilon Honor Society: 2005-present (Chair)
Staff Planning (faculty strategic hiring committee): 2002-5, 2007-8
Recruiting Committee: 1995, 1996, 2000, 2003-5, 2007-8
Promotion and Tenure Committee: 2001-3
Outcomes Assessments Committee: 2004-5
Budget Committee: 2005, 2008
Ad hoc New Horizons Initiative: 2005
Joint Business Major Committee: 2003-5
Ad hoc Advising Committee: 2004 (co-Chair)
Ad hoc Reading Room renovation committee: 2004
Ad hoc Undergraduate Teaching and Enrollment committee: 2002-4 (Chair)
Preparing Future Faculty mentoring program: 2002-3
Web Pages Committee: 1999-2001, 2003
External Review Preparation and Response: 2002
Distinguished Majors Committee: 1997-2001 (Chair: 1999, 2000)
Distinguished Majors Advisor: 1994-2001
Public Economics Field Exam Committee: 1997, 1999, 2000
Micro Prelim Committee: 1994-1997
Public Economics Workshop Coordinator: 1999-2000
Lower Division (freshman/sophomore) Advisor: 1995-2001
Economics Major Advisor: 1994-2001
Computer Committee: 1998-2001
Prizes Committee: 1997, 1998

External Presentations:

Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, DC, scheduled for Nov. 2008 (Chair)
Georgia State University, April 2008.
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) meetings, Washington, DC, Nov. 2007
American Economic Association meetings (Econometric Society), Chicago, January 2007
Southern Economic Association Meetings, Charleston, SC, Nov. 2006 (Chair)
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) meetings, Madison, WI, Nov. 2006
Georgetown, December 2005
Southern Economic Association Meetings, November 2004 (Chair)
University of Virginia, October 2004
Syracuse University, April 2004
University of Michigan, Conference for the Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, July 18-19, 2004
Econometric Society Meetings, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July 2003
International Health Economics Association World Conference, San Francisco, June 2003
University of Michigan, March 2003
Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research,
Census Bureau Research Development Grants Conference, Suitland, MD, September 2002
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), May 2002
Midwest Economic Association Meetings, Chicago, March 2002
Southern Economics Association Meetings, Tampa, November 2001
American Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, January 2001
Econometric Society Meetings, New Orleans, January 2001
University of California-Davis, 2000
University of Kentucky, 2000
Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 2000 (Chair)
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 2000
Virginia Tech, 2000
Virginia Commonwealth, 2000
Duke University, 2000
Iowa State University, 2000
Econometric Society Meetings, Madison, WI, 1999
International Health Economics Association World Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1999
George Washington University, 1999
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie-Mellon, 1999
Virginia Tech, 1998
Johns Hopkins University, 1997
Southern Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1996
Southern Economic Association Meetings, New Orleans, 1995
American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., 1995
Seventh Biennial Conference of the Economics of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, 1994
University of Virginia, 1994
McMaster University, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, 1994
Mathematica Policy Research, 1994
Bucknell University, 1994
Sixth Biennial Conference of the Economics of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, 1992

Selected Outreach:

Member of Iowa Governor Vilsack's task force to evaluate state tax reform proposals, 2003

Professional Organizations:

International Health Economics Association
National Academy of Social Insurance
Econometric Society
American Economic Association
Virginia Health Policy Center, associate member, 1995-2001

Selected Consulting: General Accounting Office, Social Security Administration

Department of Economics 460C Heady Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011-1070 (515) 294-6237 (ph) (515) 294-0221 (fax) Email: bkreider "at" iastate.edu

Department of Economics
460C Heady Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1070
(515) 294-6237 (ph)
(515) 294-0221 (fax)
Email: bkreider "at" iastate.edu