Eleanor P. Brown

Eleanor P. Brown is an American economist. She is the James Irvine Professor of Economics at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and is a co-editor of the academic journal Review of Economics of the Household.

Early life and education
Eleanor Phyllis Brown was born on April 18, 1954. She attended public schools in Fullerton, California before attending Pomona College, graduating in 1975. She then earned a Master's degree in 1977 and a doctorate in 1981 from Princeton University.

Career
After teaching at the University of Florida and Princeton University, Brown returned to Pomona College, her alma mater, in 1986, where she currently holds the James Irvine chair in economics. At Pomona College, she teaches various courses on microeconomics for both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has also taught various projects in summer programs for journalists, incoming high school seniors, and credit union employees.

Her research focuses on economic activity outside the quid pro quo of the market, including charitable giving and volunteering, the economics of the nonprofit sector, and the economics of the family. After serving for many years as its Secretary and conference program chair, she was elected President of the Association for the Study of the Grants Economy. She presided over its name change to the Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics. She served as deputy editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 1998-2010 and as coeditor of Review of Economics of the Household 2012-2022.

She is professionally affiliated with:
 * American Economic Association
 * Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
 * Association for the Study of Generosity in Economics
 * 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.

Books

 * Brown, Eleanor P., Stiglitz, Joseph E. (1988). Economics of the Public Sector, 2nd edition. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0393956873.
 * Brown, Eleanor P., edited with Moore, Robert L. (1995). Readings, Issues, and Problems in Public Finance, 4th edition, Richard D. Irwin.

<!-- ===Journal articles=== Economics and Management, 2e, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, pages 132-145. 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. Advancement, vol. 7 no. 3 (2007), 229-242. Quarterly, vol. 36 no. 1 (March 2007), 85-99. 2003), 111-133. no. 1 (Winter 2003), p. 60. Problems, vol. 62 no. 4 (Autumn 1999), 17-42. Ehrlich, eds. Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector in a Changing America, Indiana University Press, 1999, 212-230. 28:1 (March 1999), 3-17. W., and Bruno V. Manno, Giving Better, Giving Smarter 1997. Washington, DC: working papers of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal. Association, 1996 Proceedings of the 89th Annual Conference on Taxation, 1997, pp. 164-170. 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. -->
 * with Al Slivinski, “Markets with Competition between For-Profit and Nonprofit Firms,”
 * in Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young, eds., Handbook of Research on Nonprofit
 * 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
 * with Patrick Rooney and Debra Mesch. “Who Decides in Giving to Education? A Study of Charitable Giving by Married Couples,” International Journal of Educational
 * with James Ferris, “Social Capital and Philanthropy: An Analysis of the Impact of Social Capital on Individual Giving and Volunteering,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
 * 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
 * "Comment: An Algebra-Based Complement to 'Demonstrating the Equivalence between Two Methods of Measuring Excess Burden'" Journal of Economic Education, vol. 34
 * “The Scope of Volunteer Activity and Public Service,” Law and Contemporary
 * “Patterns and Purposes of Philanthropic Giving,” in Clotfelter, Charles T., and Thomas
 * “Assessing the Value of Volunteer Activity,” Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
 * “Assessing the Value of Volunteer Activity in the United States,” ch. 6 in Barry, John
 * “Taxes and Charitable Giving: Is There a New Conventional Wisdom?” National Tax
 * “Altruism Towards Groups: The Charitable Provision of Private Goods,” Nonprofit and