Eleanor Brown Department of Economics 220 West 8th Street Pomona College Claremont, CA 91711 425 N. College Ave. (909) 626-6489 Claremont, CA 91711 (909) 607-2810 or 621-8118 phone (909) 621-8576 fax [email protected]

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 , Indiana University Fall 2009 Visiting Scholar, Center on 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 ; 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 in summer programs for journalists, high school seniors-to-be, and credit union employees Publications

with Al Slivinski, “Markets with Competition between For-Profit and Nonprofit Firms,” in Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young, eds., Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2e, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, pages 132-145.

with Debra Mesch and Amir Hayat, “Life Expectancy and the Search for a Bag Lady Effect in Charitable Giving,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 45:3 (June 2016), 630-645.

with Christopher Einolf and Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, “Giving in the United States: Generous Philanthropy in a Classic Liberal Regime,” chapter 4 in Femida Handy and Pamala Weipking, eds., The Palgrave Handbook of Global Philanthropy, Palgrave McMillan, 2015, pages 44-63.

with Robert Prag, “Zombification Insurance,” chapter 9 in Glen Whitman and James Dow, eds., Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, 89-97.

with Ye Zhang, “Is Volunteer Labor Part of Household Production? Evidence from Married Couples,” Review of Economics of the Household, 11:3 (September 2013), 341-369.

with David Martin ’10, “Individual Giving and Volunteering,” chapter 13 in Lester Salamon, ed., The State of Nonprofit America, second edition. Brookings Institution Press, 2012.

“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, 25:1 (February 2009), pp. 99-114.

with Mark Wilhelm, Patrick Rooney, and Richard Steinberg, “The Intergenerational Transmission of Generosity,” Journal of Public Economics, 92:10-11 (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 and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of 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 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 89th 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, “ 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 Qing Fan, “Mixed market competition with nonprofit and hybrid firms,” November 2019.

with Richard Steinberg, Ye Zhang, and Patrick Rooney, “Earned, Owned, or Transferred: Are Donations Sensitive to the Composition of Income and Wealth?” July 2014.

“Towards an Economics of Stewardship: Family Failure and the Theory of the Nonprofit Sector,” March 2010.

Textbook

Edited with Robert L. Moore, Readings, Issues, and Problems in Public Finance, 4th edition, Richard D. Irwin, 1995.

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

Conference Activity (post-associate-deanship)

January 4-6, 1997, New Orleans. “Altruism Towards Groups: The Charitable Provision of Private Goods,” presented at the annual conference of the Allied Social Science Assns.

February 24, 1997, Cambridge, Massachusetts. One of eight economists invited as experts on the economics of charitable giving invited to the National Bureau of Economic Research to consult with the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal.

July 9-13, 1997, Seattle, Washington. “The Demand for Multiple Child Care Arrangements,” with Alison Hagy, presented at the 72nd Western Economic Association International conference.

November 13-15, 1997, Philadelphia. Presented, with June Speakman, “Voluntarism and Political Activity: Are We Still Bowling Alone?” at the 29th annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association meetings.

December 4-6, 1997, Indianapolis. “Assessing the Value of Volunteer Activity in the United States,” presented at the 26th annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).

January 3-5, 1998, Chicago. “Voluntarism and Political Engagement: Are We Still Bowling Alone?” presented at the annual ASSA meetings.

April 23-26, 1998, Los Angeles. Invited participant in the Ninety-third American Assembly, “The Future of Philanthropy in a Changing America.”

November 3-5, 1998, Seattle. "Personal Philanthropy Over the : Does Volunteering Smooth Giving?" presented at the 27th annual meeting of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

January 3-5, 1999, New York. “Charitable Giving by Couples: Who Decides, and Why Does It Matter?” presented at the annual ASSA meetings.

June 1-10, 1999, Indianapolis. Invited participant in a weeklong Workshop in Nonprofit Economics. I presented the paper on charitable giving by couples.

November 3-6, 1999, Washington, DC. “Charitable Giving by Couples: Who Decides, and Why Does it Matter?” presented at the 28th annual ARNOVA meetings.

November 12, 1999, Duke University. “The Scope of Volunteer Activity and Public Service,” presented at the conference on Amateurs in Public Service.

January 6-8, 2000, Boston. I served as a discussant at the ASSA meetings, covering a paper on family businesses as an organizational form that circumvents certain principal- agent problems.

January 20, 2000, Los Angeles. I prepared a background paper, “Wealth, Taxes and the New Philanthropists,” and appeared as a panelist for “What’s New About the New Philanthropy?” the first annual conference of the University of Southern California’s Nonprofit Studies Center.

April 3-4, 2000, St. Louis. I presented a co-authored paper with Al Slivinski, “The Effects of Gender on Giving to Education: Do Household Demographics Matter?” at the AIR/CASE research colloquium, “The new Demographics of Philanthropy.”

April 28-29, 2000, Chicago. I took part in an authors meeting in preparation for the second edition of The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook. At this meeting authors presented outlines for their chapters and shared thoughts about areas of overlap and gaps in coverage. I am coauthoring a chapter, “Nonprofits and the Market.”

June 21, 2000, Fullerton. I was the respondent charged with summarizing and reflecting on the presentations made at Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Nonprofit Sector Research’s Town Hall Dialog, “The State of Philanthropy: Orange County.”

July 5-8, 2000, Dublin. Coauthor Al Slivinski and I presented our paper, “Household Decision Making Regarding Charitable Giving,” at the annual meeting of the International Society for Third-Sector Research.

July 14, 2000, Indianapolis. Invited to a workshop to fine-tune a philanthropy and volunteering supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics survey. The workshop was hosted by the Center for Philanthropy of Indiana University at Indianapolis.

November 16-18, 2000, New Orleans. Annual ARNOVA conference. Gave progress report in workshop for chapters from The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook.

November 28-29 2000, Indianapolis. Invited conference on survey methodology in giving and volunteering. This is the conference whose papers I’m editing for publication as a symposium in the September issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly.

January 5-7, 2001, New Orleans. Annual Allied Social Science Associations meetings. Presented a paper, “Household Decision Making Regarding Charitable Giving.”

June 26-27, 2001, Minneapolis. Corporation for National Service, invited conference, “The State of Service-Related Research: Opportunities to Build a Field”

November 29-December 1, 2001, Miami. Annual ARNOVA conference. I presented a paper, “Making Philanthropy Work: Social Capital and Human Capital as Predictors of Household Giving.”

January 3-6, 2002, Atlanta. Allied Social Science Assocations meeting. I presented a revised version of the paper presented at ARNOVA in Miami. I was also conference program chair in charge of three sessions for one of the associations.

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, 18th 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, “ 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?”

July 10-13, 2012, Siena, International Society for Third Sector Research. “Is Volunteering Part of Household Production? Evidence from Married Couples”

January 4-6, 2013 San Diego, ASSA. Presided over the sessions of the Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics and chaired ASGE board meeting.

October 18-19, 2013, Chicago. Science of Philanthropy Initiative annual conference, invited guest and co-PI of grant with Christopher Einolf.

November 19-21, 2014, Denver. ARNOVA. I made two presentations: “Informing Volunteer Management: Some Updates from Labor Economics,” and, based in joint work with Marissa Kuhrau ’15, “Slouching Towards Social Capital: Tales from Common Pool Resources and Neighborhood Crime.”

June 28-July 2, 2015, Honolulu, Western Economic Association International. Chaired and discussed a paper in a session on discrimination in professional basketball.

November 19-21, 2015, Chicago, ARNOVA. Participated in a panel on future directions for research on women and philanthropy; attended meetings of the advisory board of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute and the editorial board for NVSQ.

June 23-24, 2017, San Diego, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession. Served as mentor to a group of women assistant professors in a two-day workshop geared at advancing their research and their success in the classroom and navigating their academic environments.

June 25-26, 2017, San Diego, Society of Economics of the Household. Launching our inaugural conference, I chaired multiple sessions, served as discussant, and was a member of the closing plenary panel on the future of the field of household economics.

November 15-17, 2018, Austin TX, ARNOVA. I presented a paper coauthored with Qing Fan ’18 and Yufeng Hu ’18, “Altruism, Hybrid Firms, and Mixed-Market Competition”

May 27-28, 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, Society of Economics of the Household. I chaired a session on the macroeconomics of the household. I was also on the committee that chose the papers for the conference.

Editorial and Review Work

2012- Co-editor, Review of Economics of the Household 2010-2016 Editorial board, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1998-2010 Deputy editor, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1991-1995 Co-editor, Economic Inquiry

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 Marriage and Family Journal of Population 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 Review of Economics of the Household 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, Whittier College, Lewis & Clark College

Other Professional Service

Society of Economics of the Household. Helped to launch this new professional association that held its inaugural conference in San Diego in 2017. Currently serving as a member of its advisory board. Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis: Associate Project Manager, development of the Center of Philanthropy Panel Study survey module on giving and volunteering for inclusion in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The COPPS data have been collected as a PSID module since 2001. Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics: officer of the association in various capacities (conference program chair, secretary, president), 2001-2013. Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action: Membership committee member, 2004; selection committee member, best dissertation award, 2004, 2005; search committee for editor of NVSQ, 2009-2010; selection committee for lifetime achievement award, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016. 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. Women’s Philanthropy Institute: Member, advisory board, 2008-present. National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise: member, research advisory network, 2018- present. 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, 2014.

Professional Affiliations

American Economic Association Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics (formerly the 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 Society of Economics of the Household (board member)