Donald Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 281 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Motives for Care that Adult Children Provide to Parents: Evidence from "Point Blank" Survey Questions
Adult children who care for aging parents incur costs along psychic, monetary, emotional, and even physical dimensions. What motivates them? Is it altruism, guilt, obligation, or gratitude? Perhaps the anticipation of a bequest? Familial norms, or desire for recognition? Understanding motivation for care is high on the agenda of both economics and sociology. A primary focus of economics is the prospect that public transfers may supplant or stimul…
Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family
Many economic models of the family are based on a generic "person 1-person 2" household or "parent-child" family, rather than their anatomically correct counterparts: sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers. These economic models can offer powerful insights into family behavior, but also can leave certain patterns unexplained and neglect potentially important crosscurrents. "Bio-founded" approaches explicitly co…
The Split in the Party
BPP Field Marshall Donald Cox excerpts the Epilogue to his forthcoming book, Maiden Voyage, beginning with the 1971 split between Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. Newton threatened to “crush” Cox, who said he was siding with Cleaver. Cox and Cleaver, both in Algiers, were sending videotaped material to the US via Bill and Miriam Seidler, white sympathizers with the BBP. In March of 1971 Seidler was assassinated in his store. Cox blames Newton, a…
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household surveys, conducted both before and after Poland's economic transition, which measure private inter‐household transfers. Such transfers are large and wide…
The connection between public transfers and private interfamily transfers
This paper investigates the anti-poverty effectiveness of public transfers taking private-transfer responses into account. Widespread, altruistically motivated private transfers would neutralize the distributional impact of public transfers. But exchange-motivated transfers can reinforce the effects of public transfers on the distribution of economic well-being. The common technique for gauging anti-poverty effectiveness (subtracting public trans…
Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru
Do social security systems “crowd out” private transfers from younger to older generations? This question has generated much theoretical discussion, but little empirical work exists to confirm or refute this crowding-out hypothesis. We investigate the connection between social security and private transfers in Peru, using the Peruvian Living Standards Survey, and find that private transfers from young to old would have been nearly 20 percent high…
Inter-Vivos Transfers and Intergenerational Exchange
The surge of interest in intergenerational transfers in the past decade has sparked a debate over the motivation for them. Are transfers given out of altruism or part of an exchange? While each motive is probably at work to some extent, they know little about whether one motive predominates. The question is relevant for issues concerning public income redistribution and inequality in the family but despite its importance, empirical evidence about…
Development of Common Cold Symptoms Following Experimental Rhinovirus Infection is Related to Prior Stressful Life Events
Previous studies of rhinovirus infection indicate that about one third of the persons with confirmed viral infection do not show evidence of cold symptoms. Factors that determine which infected individuals will develop colds are not known. Using a rhinovirus inoculation protocol, the authors explored the possible role of recent life events, current mood, and perceived stress in the development of symptoms in individuals known to be infected. As p…
Credit Rationing and Private Transfers: Evidence from Survey Data
This paper investigates the connection between credit rationing and private intergenerational transfers. The research is motivated by the idea that private transfers may be a source of funds for consumers who have difficulty borrowing from financial intermediaries. This idea has important implications for consumer behavior, and economists have begun to think about it, but they have given it little empirical attention. Using the 1983 Survey of Con…
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France
Traditional male-female wage discrimination measures rely on residuals from earnings functions that standardize for observable characteristics. But many productivity determinants are unobservable, and existing proxies for them are often difficult to interpret. Instead of using the earnings-function approach, we estimate production functions, using data from the 1839–45 and 1860–65 French industry censuses for textiles. While most of our findings …
Motives for Private Income Transfers
Private income transfers are becoming increasingly recognized as a key aspect of the U.S. economy. The majority of private income transfers occur inter vivos (i.e., between living persons), but very little is known about this type of transfer behavior. This paper tests alternative hypotheses concerning motivation for inter vivos transfers. Two motives are considered: altruism and exchange. Evidence presented here casts doubt on the altruistic mod…
Inequality in the Lifetime Earnings of Women
Haworth, Charles T., and Carol Jean Reuther, 'Industrial Concentration and Inter-industry Wage Determination, this REVIEW 60 (Feb. 1978), 85-95. Johnson, George E.. Analysis of Trade Unionism,' American Economic Review 65 (May 1975), 23-28. Lester, Richard, Pay Differentials by Size of Establishment,'' Indiuistrial Relaitionis 7 (Oct. 1967), 57-67. Lewis, H. Gregg, Interpreting Coefficients in Wage Equations, mimeo, Duke University (Aug. 1980). M…
Motives for Private Income Transfers
Private income transfers are becoming increasingly recognized as a key aspect of the U.S. economy. The majority of private income transfers occur inter vivos (i.e., between living persons), but very little is known about this type of transfer behavior. This paper tests alternative hypotheses concerning motivation for inter vivos transfers. Two motives are considered: altruism and exchange. Evidence presented here casts doubt on the altruistic mod…
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France
Traditional male-female wage discrimination measures rely on residuals from earnings functions that standardize for observable characteristics. But many productivity determinants are unobservable, and existing proxies for them are often difficult to interpret. Instead of using the earnings-function approach, we estimate production functions, using data from the 1839–45 and 1860–65 French industry censuses for textiles. While most of our findings …
Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family
Many economic models of the family are based on a generic "person 1-person 2" household or "parent-child" family, rather than their anatomically correct counterparts: sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers. These economic models can offer powerful insights into family behavior, but also can leave certain patterns unexplained and neglect potentially important crosscurrents. "Bio-founded" approaches explicitly co…
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
Motives for Care that Adult Children Provide to Parents: Evidence from "Point Blank" Survey Questions
Adult children who care for aging parents incur costs along psychic, monetary, emotional, and even physical dimensions. What motivates them? Is it altruism, guilt, obligation, or gratitude? Perhaps the anticipation of a bequest? Familial norms, or desire for recognition? Understanding motivation for care is high on the agenda of both economics and sociology. A primary focus of economics is the prospect that public transfers may supplant or stimul…
Inequality in the Lifetime Earnings of Women
Haworth, Charles T., and Carol Jean Reuther, 'Industrial Concentration and Inter-industry Wage Determination, this REVIEW 60 (Feb. 1978), 85-95. Johnson, George E.. Analysis of Trade Unionism,' American Economic Review 65 (May 1975), 23-28. Lester, Richard, Pay Differentials by Size of Establishment,'' Indiuistrial Relaitionis 7 (Oct. 1967), 57-67. Lewis, H. Gregg, Interpreting Coefficients in Wage Equations, mimeo, Duke University (Aug. 1980). M…
Motives for Private Income Transfers
Private income transfers are becoming increasingly recognized as a key aspect of the U.S. economy. The majority of private income transfers occur inter vivos (i.e., between living persons), but very little is known about this type of transfer behavior. This paper tests alternative hypotheses concerning motivation for inter vivos transfers. Two motives are considered: altruism and exchange. Evidence presented here casts doubt on the altruistic mod…
Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France
Traditional male-female wage discrimination measures rely on residuals from earnings functions that standardize for observable characteristics. But many productivity determinants are unobservable, and existing proxies for them are often difficult to interpret. Instead of using the earnings-function approach, we estimate production functions, using data from the 1839–45 and 1860–65 French industry censuses for textiles. While most of our findings …
Credit Rationing and Private Transfers: Evidence from Survey Data
This paper investigates the connection between credit rationing and private intergenerational transfers. The research is motivated by the idea that private transfers may be a source of funds for consumers who have difficulty borrowing from financial intermediaries. This idea has important implications for consumer behavior, and economists have begun to think about it, but they have given it little empirical attention. Using the 1983 Survey of Con…
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru
Do social security systems “crowd out” private transfers from younger to older generations? This question has generated much theoretical discussion, but little empirical work exists to confirm or refute this crowding-out hypothesis. We investigate the connection between social security and private transfers in Peru, using the Peruvian Living Standards Survey, and find that private transfers from young to old would have been nearly 20 percent high…
Inter-Vivos Transfers and Intergenerational Exchange
The surge of interest in intergenerational transfers in the past decade has sparked a debate over the motivation for them. Are transfers given out of altruism or part of an exchange? While each motive is probably at work to some extent, they know little about whether one motive predominates. The question is relevant for issues concerning public income redistribution and inequality in the family but despite its importance, empirical evidence about…
Development of Common Cold Symptoms Following Experimental Rhinovirus Infection is Related to Prior Stressful Life Events
Previous studies of rhinovirus infection indicate that about one third of the persons with confirmed viral infection do not show evidence of cold symptoms. Factors that determine which infected individuals will develop colds are not known. Using a rhinovirus inoculation protocol, the authors explored the possible role of recent life events, current mood, and perceived stress in the development of symptoms in individuals known to be infected. As p…
The connection between public transfers and private interfamily transfers
This paper investigates the anti-poverty effectiveness of public transfers taking private-transfer responses into account. Widespread, altruistically motivated private transfers would neutralize the distributional impact of public transfers. But exchange-motivated transfers can reinforce the effects of public transfers on the distribution of economic well-being. The common technique for gauging anti-poverty effectiveness (subtracting public trans…
Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household surveys, conducted both before and after Poland's economic transition, which measure private inter‐household transfers. Such transfers are large and wide…
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
The Split in the Party
BPP Field Marshall Donald Cox excerpts the Epilogue to his forthcoming book, Maiden Voyage, beginning with the 1971 split between Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver. Newton threatened to “crush” Cox, who said he was siding with Cleaver. Cox and Cleaver, both in Algiers, were sending videotaped material to the US via Bill and Miriam Seidler, white sympathizers with the BBP. In March of 1971 Seidler was assassinated in his store. Cox blames Newton, a…
Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family
Many economic models of the family are based on a generic "person 1-person 2" household or "parent-child" family, rather than their anatomically correct counterparts: sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers. These economic models can offer powerful insights into family behavior, but also can leave certain patterns unexplained and neglect potentially important crosscurrents. "Bio-founded" approaches explicitly co…
Motives for Care that Adult Children Provide to Parents: Evidence from "Point Blank" Survey Questions
Adult children who care for aging parents incur costs along psychic, monetary, emotional, and even physical dimensions. What motivates them? Is it altruism, guilt, obligation, or gratitude? Perhaps the anticipation of a bequest? Familial norms, or desire for recognition? Understanding motivation for care is high on the agenda of both economics and sociology. A primary focus of economics is the prospect that public transfers may supplant or stimul…
Economics (12 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (6 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (3 works)