Education

B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, Pomona College, 1975

M.A., Economics, Princeton University, 1977

Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, 1981

Positions Held

Spring 2010 Visiting Scholar, Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University

Fall 2009 Visiting Scholar, Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, Boston College

1999-present James Irvine Professor of Economics, Pomona College

2001-2002 Faculty Fellow, Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy, USC

1997-1999 Professor of Economics, Pomona College

1994-1996 Associate Dean of the College, Pomona College

1989-1997 Associate Professor of Economics, Pomona College

1986-1989 Assistant Professor of Economics, Pomona College

1985-1986 Visiting Assistant Professor and Lecturer, Princeton University

1981-1985 Assistant Professor and Member, Graduate Faculty, U. Florida

1980-1981 Provisional Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Research Interests

Personal philanthropy, volunteer labor, nonprofit organizations, intra-household decision making, tax policy

Teaching Experience

Undergraduates: Principles of microeconomics; intermediate microeconomic theory; urban economics; public finance; economics of gender and family (Economics/Women’s Studies); Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being (senior seminar in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics); senior seminar in economics

Graduates: Public Finance II: Theory of Taxation; Microeconomic Theory I: Partial Equilibrium Analysis; Microeconomic theory for doctoral students in business; Microeconomic theory for MPA students

Nontraditional: taught various subjects summer programs for journalists, high school seniors-to-be, and credit union employees

Articles

with Y. Zhang, "Is Volunteer Labor Part of Household Production? Evidence from Married Couples,” Review of Economics of the Household, forthcoming.

With David Martin, “Individual Giving and Volunteering,” chapter 13 in Lester Salamon, ed., The State of Nonprofit America, second edition. Brookings Institution Press, 2011.

“Markets with Competition between For-Profit and Nonprofit Firms,” in Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young, eds., Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, Edward Elgar, 2010.

with Kaitlyn Caughlin ’07, “Donors, Ideologues, and Bureaucrats: Government Objectives and the Performance of the Nonprofit Sector,” Financial Accountability & Management, vol. 25 no. 1 (February 2009), pp. 99-114.

with Mark Wilhelm, Patrick Rooney, and Richard Steinberg, “The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity,” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 no. 10-11 (October 2008), 2146-2156.

with Rosanna Smart ’08, Racial Differences in Civic Participation and Charitable Giving: The Confounding Effects of Educational Attainment and Unmeasured Ability,” Review of Black Political Economy, vol. 34 nos 3-4 (December 2007), 259-271.

with Patrick Rooney and Debra Mesch. “Who Decides in Giving to Education? A Study of Charitable Giving by Married Couples,” International Journal of Educational Advancement, vol. 7 no. 3 (2007), 229-242.

with James Ferris, “Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 36 no. 1 (March 2007), 85-99.

with Al Slivinski, “Nonprofit Organizations and the Market,” in Walter Powell and Richard Steinberg, eds., The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, second edition, Yale University Press, 2006, 140-158.

“Married Couples’ Charitable Giving: Who and Why,” in Martha A. Taylor and Sondra Shaw-Hardy, eds., The Transformative Power of Women’s Philanthropy. New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising, No. 50 (Winter 2005), 69-80.

"College, Social Capital, and Charitable Giving," in Arthur Brooks, ed., Gifts of Time and Money in America's Communities, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, 185-204.

With James Andreoni and Isaac Rischall, “Charitable Giving by Married Couples: Who

Decides and Why Does It Matter?” Journal of Human Resources, vol. 8 no. 1 (Winter 2003), 111-133.

"Comment: An Algebra-Based Complement to 'Demonstrating the Equivalence between Two Methods of Measuring Excess Burden'" Journal of Economic Education, vol. 34 no. 1 (Winter 2003), p. 60.

“The Scope of Volunteer Activity and Public Service,” Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 62 no. 4 (Autumn 1999), 17-42.

“Patterns and Purposes of Philanthropic Giving,” in Clotfelter, Charles T., and Thomas Ehrlich, eds. Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in a Changing America, Indiana University Press, 1999, 212-230.

“Assessing the Value of Volunteer Activity,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,

28:1 (March 1999), 3-17.

“Assessing the Value of Volunteer Activity in the United States,” ch. 6 in Barry, John

W., and Bruno V. Manno, Giving Better, Giving Smarter 1997. Washington, DC:

working papers of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.

“Taxes and Charitable Giving: Is There a New Conventional Wisdom?” National Tax

Association, 1996 Proceedings of the 89^th Annual Conference on Taxation, 1997,

pp. 164-170.

“Altruism Towards Groups: The Charitable Provision of Private Goods,” Nonprofit and

Voluntary Sector Quarterly, June 1997, pp. 175-184.

with Mary Hirschfeld and Robert L. Moore, “Exploring the Gender Gap on the GRE

Subject Test in Economics,” Journal of Economic Education, Winter 1995, pp. 3-15.

with Hamilton Lankford, “Gifts of Money and Gifts of Time: Estimating the Effects of

Tax Prices and Available Time,” Journal of Public Economics, April 1992, 321-341.

with Richard Spiro and Diane Keenan, “Wage and Nonwage Discrimination in

Professional Basketball,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, July 1991,

pp. 333-345.

with Jan Zahrly, “Nonmonetary Rewards for Skilled Volunteer Labor: A Look at Crisis Intervention Volunteers,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Spring 1989, 167-177.

“Involuntary Employment in Contracts with Risky Job Search,” Economic Inquiry,

January 1989, pp. 93-104.

with Howard S. Kaufold, “Human Capital Accumulation and the Optimal Level of

Unemployment Insurance Provision,” Journal of Labor Economics, October 1988,

pp. 493-514.

“Tax Incentives and Charitable Giving: Evidence from New Survey Data,” Public

Finance Quarterly, October 1987, pp. 386-396.

“Unemployment Insurance Taxes and Cyclical Layoff Incentives,” Journal of Labor

Economics, January 1986, pp. 50-65.

“Comment: Bequests and Horizontal Equity under a Consumption Tax,” National Tax

Journal, December 1983, pp. 511-513.

“Specific Tax Formulas for Experience Rating,” Unemployment Compensation: Studies

and Research, National Commission on Unemployment Compensation, July 1980,

pp. 265-270.

with James Trussell, “A Close Look at the Demography of Afghanistan,” Demography,

February 1979, pp. 137-156.

Working Papers and Work in Progress

With D. Mesch and A. Hyatt, “Charitable Giving by Older Women: Is There a Bag Lady Syndrome?” November 2011.

with D. Mesch, Z. Moore, X. Kou, and S. Kim, "'Who Decides?' Revisited: Household Decision Making and Charitable Giving," for presentation at ARNOVA 2010, in progress.

"Toward an Economics of Stewardship: Family Failure and the Theory of the Nonprofit Sector," March 2010.

with Richard Steinberg, Patrick Rooney, and Ye Zhang “Inheritance and Charitable Donations,” revised 2011.

Textbook

Edited with Robert L. Moore, Readings, Issues, and Problems in Public Finance, 4^th

edition, Richard D. Irwin, 1995.

with Joseph Stiglitz, Instructors’ Manual for Stiglitz, Economics of the Public Sector.

Recent (last ten years) Conference Activity

January 3-6, 2002, Atlanta. Allied Social Science Assocations. Presented “Making Philanthropy Work: Social Capital and Human Capital as Predictors of Household Giving.” I was also conference program chair in charge of three sessions for the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy.

July 7-10, 2002, Cape Town, South Africa. International Society for Third-Sector Research biennial conference. Served as a conference theme co-chair in charge of paper selection, and chaired a session on charitable giving.

November 13-16, 2002, Montreal. ARNOVA. Organized and chaired a session on the future of charitable giving; was to serve as discussant but left detailed comments and returned home early due to illness.

January 2003, Washington, DC, Allied Social Science Associations. I was program chair for the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy, a member organization of ASSA and allotted three sessions at the ASSA meetings. A highlight of our program was the participation of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen as a discussant in one of our sessions. I chaired one of the ASGE sessions.

June 27, 2003, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. I was one of ten attendees at an invitation-only workshop on "Understanding the Nonprofit/Voluntary Sector," advising the Committee on National Statistics about data on the nonprofit sector.

November 19-23, 2003, Denver, ARNOVA. I presented a paper coauthored with Jim Ferris, "The Impacts of Human Capital, Social Capital, and Religious Attendance of Charitable Giving and Volunteering." I organized a session on social influences on charitable giving, and chaired the session when its schedule chair was unable to attend.

January 2-5, 2004, San Diego, ASSA. I served as discussant on three papers in two sessions, met with other officers of ASGE, and interviewed job candidates.

April 16, 2004, Syracuse, Maxwell School for Public Policy. I gave a paper at an invited conference on Giving in America's Communities.

July 11-14, 2004, Toronto, International Society for Third-Sector Research biennial conference. Presented a paper with coauthor Jim Ferris on social capital and charitable giving.

August 5-7, 2004, Oxford. International Association for Feminist Economics. Presented a paper with coauthor Sam Glick on the determinants of volunteer hours of husbands and wives using the newly available PSID data.

November 17-20, 2004, Los Angeles. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Chaired a session and served as discussant for its three papers.

January 7-9, 2005, Philadelphia. ASSA. Discussed a paper on entry and exit of for-profit and non-profit institutions of higher education.

August 25-26, 2005, Indianapolis. Center on Philanthropy, 18^th annual conference, Women in Philanthropy. Gave a paper on decision making authority within married couples and how it affects charitable giving.

November 17-19 2005, Washington, DC, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Gave a paper on decision making authority in the household and how it affects giving.

January 6-8, 2006, Boston, ASSA. Discussant for Katherine Carman, “Social Influences and the Designation of Charitable Contributions: Evidence from the Workplace” and session chair for ASGE session “Charitable Giving.”

February 24, 2006, Drucker/Ito School of Business, Claremont Graduate University. “Altruism Meets the Dismal Science,” presentation and chair of morning session for conference Women in Economics & Political Economy: Career Paths & Research Agendas.”

July 9-12, 2006, Bangkok, Thailand, International Society for Third Sector Research. Presented a paper, “Donors, Ideologues, and Bureaucrats: The Principal-Agent Relationship between Government and the Third Sector.” As a member of the ISTR nominating committee, met to select a slate of board candidates.

November 16-18, 2006, Chicago, ARNOVA. Was part of a panel advising new and potential users of the CoPPS data on giving and volunteering.

January 5-7, 2007, Chicago, ASSA. Session chair, “The Estate Tax and Charitable Giving,” also conference program chair for three ASGE sessions.

March 12-13, 2007, Venice, Italy. Presented paper with Kaitlyn Caughlin ‘07, an updated version of “Donors, Ideologues, and Bureaucrats” that includes her as coauthor, at the Sixth Workshop on Managing the Challenges of the Third Sector, sponsored by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management.

November 15-17, 2007, Atlanta, ARNOVA. Chair, Giving by High Net Worth Individuals; discussant for paper by Dan Hungerford, “Diversity and Crowd-Out: A Theory of Cold-Glow Giving;” coauthor on paper presented by Rich Steinberg, “Inheritance and Charitable Giving.”

January 4-6, 2008, New Orleans, Allied Social Sciences Association. Organized the sessions of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy. Chaired a session, Resource Allocation within the Household.

July 9-12, 2008, Barcelona, Spain, International Society for Third Sector Research. Member of conference planning committee. Presented paper “Inheritance and Charitable Giving,” and chaired a session on charitable giving.

November 20-22, 2008, Philadelphia, ARNOVA. Panel member discussing the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study data; chair of the session, “Attitudinal and Perceptual Determinants of Individual Giving.”

January 4-6, 2009, San Francisco, Allied Social Sciences Association. Organized the sessions of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy. Chaired a session “Time Use, Unpaid Work, and Public Policy.”

November 19-21, 2009, Cleveland, ARNOVA. Panel member discussing the challenges of designing cross-national standardized survey instruments for measuring charitable giving

January 3-5, 2010, Atlanta, Allied Social Sciences Association. Organized the sessions of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy. Chaired a panel session on the economic downturn and its effect on the nonprofit sector.

July 7-10,2010, Istanbul, International Society for Third-Sector Research. Paper presented, "Towards an Economics of Stewardship: Family Failure and the Theory of the Nonprofit Firm".

January 7-9, 2011, Denver, Allied Social Sciences Association. Organized the sessions of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy. Chaired a session on intersectoral competition and nonprofit firms.

November 17-19, 2011, Toronto, ARNOVA. Presented “Charitable Giving by Older Women: Is There a Bag Lady Syndrome?”

Editorial and Review Work

1991-1995 Co-editor, Economic Inquiry

1998-2010 Deputy editor, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

2010- Editorial board, NVSQ

Referee/reviewer for:

American Economic Review

American Journal of Economics and Sociology

Aspen Institute

Berkeley Electronic Journals

Canada Research Council

Economic Inquiry

Economics of Education Review

Feminist Economics

Journal of Economic Education

Journal of Human Resources

Journal of Labor Economics

Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory

Journal of Public Economics

National Science Foundation

National Tax Journal

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Nonprofit Management and Leadership

Public Budgeting and Finance

Public Finance Review

Review of Black Political Economy

Review of Economics and Statistics

Social Forces

Social Science Quarterly

Southern Economic Journal

External Reviewer for Economics Programs: Bates College, Kenyon College, University of the Pacific, Whitman College, Occidental College, Amherst College

Other Professional Service

Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis: Associate Project Manger, development of survey module on giving and volunteering for inclusion in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.

Association for the Study of the Grants Economy: officer of the association in various capacities (conference program chair, secretary), 2001-present.

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action: Member, membership committee, 2004. Selection committee member, best dissertation award, 2004, 2005.

International Society for Third Sector Research: conference theme co-chair (handling submissions on voluntarism, 2001-2002; member, nominations committee, 2006; conference planning committee and theme co-chair for submissions on voluntarism and social capital, 2007-2008.

Grants

Fetzer Institute, “The Impacts of Religious, Intellectual, and Civic Engagement on Altruistic Love and Compassionate Love as Expressed through Charitable Behaviors,” 2002-2003 (awarded October 2001).

With James Ferris, from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, “Philanthropy and Social Capital in Los Angeles,” 2001-2002.

John Templeton Foundation, Freedom Project, to develop with Professor Paul Hurley a course, “Freedom, Markets, and Well-Being,” 1999-2000.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, "Community Service as an Education Requirement: Will It Breed Volunteers?" summer 1998.

National Science Foundation Research Planning Grant, “Volunteer Labor in Models of

Altruism,” 1991.

John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, “Volunteer Labor and the Crowding Out of Private Philanthropy by Government Spending,” 1991.

University of San Francisco, Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management, grant for

“Motivating Factors for Highly Skilled Volunteers: A Look at Crisis Intervention Volunteers,” 1989.

Awards

Best Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly paper of 2007, awarded for “Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering,” coauthored with James Ferris.

Wig Award for Teaching Excellence, Pomona College, 1989, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009.

Professional Affiliations

American Economic Association

Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action

Association for the Study of the Grants Economy

Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession

International Association for Feminist Economics

International Society for Third-Sector Research