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Professor Donald Cox


Department of Economics
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 USA
tel: 617.552.3677
fax: 617.552.2308
Internet: donald.cox@bc.edu


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Ph.D., Brown University, 1980
 
Joined the economics faculty, 1987

Research interests:

Economic Development, Intergenerational Transfers, Consumer Theory, Labor Economics

Current teaching:

Labor Economics, Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources, Health Economics, Econometric Methods

Curriculum vitae [PDF]

Research:

Link: Access Working Papers and Published Works via RePEc

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Working Paper 605. Donald Cox, "Private Transfers within the Family: Mothers, Fathers, Sons and Daughters" (12/2003: 277 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format; published in Death and Dollars: The Role of Gifts and Bequests in America, Brookings Institution Press)


Working Paper 524. Donald Cox, "Private Inter-household Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s" (02/2002: 96 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 514. Donald Cox, "How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?" (10/2001: 190 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 482. Donald Cox, Serena Ng, and Andreas Waldkirch, "Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior" (10/2000: 229 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 341. Donald Cox, Bruce E. Hansen, and Emmanuel Jimenez (World Bank), "How Responsive are Private Transfers to Income? Evidence from a Laissez-Faire Economy" (rev. 12/1999: 204 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 330. Donald Cox, James Fetzer and Emmanuel Jiminez, "Private Safety Nets through Inter-Household Transfers: The Case of Viet Nam" (5/96: 101 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 329. Donald Cox and Oded Stark (Harvard University), "Intergenerational Transfers and the Demonstration Effect" (6/94: 139 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 328. Donald Cox, Emmanuel Jimenez, Wlodek Okrasa, "Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland" (5/96: 117 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)

Working Paper 327. Donald Cox, Zekeriya Eser, Emmanuel Jimenez, "Motives for Private Transfers over the Life Cycle: An Analytical Framework and Evidence for Peru" (4/96: 97 Kb, Adobe Acrobat format)


 


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