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Bridget Hiedemann, PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Economics

Biography

Bridget Hiedemann teaches a variety of statistics courses as well as an economics of gender and family elective. Her scholarship has examined issues such as families' care arrangements for the elderly, health implications of same-sex marriage, economics of disability, and access to contraception. Her work has been published in journals such as The International Economic Review, The Journal of Human Resources, the Journal of Population Economics, and the American Journal of Public Health. She served as the 2005-2007 Patricia Wismer Professor of Gender and Diversity Studies and the 2014-2016 Robert B. O’Brien Endowed Chair in Business. In 2024, she received the Albers Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Award for a publication coauthored with Albers alum Carol Xue (Class of 2020) and colleague Lisa Brodoff (Professor Emerita, SU School of Law). Hiedemann currently serves as chair of the Department of Economics in the Albers School of Business and Economics.

Education

  • BA, University of Virginia
  • PhD, Duke University

Courses Taught

  • ECON 2100: Business Statistics
  • ECON 3610: Economics of Gender and Family
  • ECON 5100: Quantitative Applications and Statistical Methods
  • ECON 4110 and ECON 5300: Applied Econometrics