Donald Cox

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Donald Cox is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Accounting and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Cox has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 14 papers in Accounting and 14 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Donald Cox's work include Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (14 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 papers). Donald Cox is often cited by papers focused on Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (14 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (13 papers) and Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (6 papers). Donald Cox collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Donald Cox's co-authors include Emmanuel Jiménez, Mark Robert Rank, George Jakubson, Tullio Jappelli, Oded Stark, Bruce E. Hansen, Andreas Waldkirch, Serena Ng, Ingela Alger and Marlaine E. Lockheed and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Quarterly Journal of Economics and Journal of Political Economy.

In The Last Decade

Donald Cox

31 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Motives for Private Income Transfers

1987 776 citations Donald Cox Journal of Political Economy profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Donald Cox	1.5k	1.1k	1.0k	927	669	32	3.0k
Matthias Doepke	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	370 0.4×	1.7k 1.8×	813 1.2×	95	3.4k
Nigel Tomes	2.7k 1.7×	847 0.8×	591 0.6×	1.5k 1.6×	563 0.8×	19	4.0k
Lance Lochner	1.2k 0.8×	597 0.5×	530 0.5×	1.7k 1.8×	305 0.5×	58	3.3k
Yoram Ben-Porath	750 0.5×	648 0.6×	342 0.3×	1.4k 1.6×	540 0.8×	24	2.6k
David T. Ellwood	1.0k 0.7×	899 0.8×	248 0.2×	568 0.6×	333 0.5×	40	2.0k
Nicola Fuchs‐Schündeln	906 0.6×	324 0.3×	377 0.4×	949 1.0×	560 0.8×	58	2.2k
Michèle Tertilt	426 0.3×	675 0.6×	434 0.4×	838 0.9×	344 0.5×	54	1.7k
Philip K. Robins	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.6×	237 0.2×	1.2k 1.3×	820 1.2×	103	3.6k
Guillermo Cruces	980 0.6×	418 0.4×	167 0.2×	787 0.8×	154 0.2×	95	2.0k
John Karl Scholz	452 0.3×	796 0.7×	1.9k 1.8×	1.7k 1.8×	724 1.1×	50	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Cox

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Alger, Ingela, Paul L. Hooper, Donald Cox, Jonathan Stieglitz, & Hillard Kaplan. (2020). Paternal provisioning results from ecological change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(20). 10746–10754. 22 indexed citations

Alger, Ingela & Donald Cox. (2013). The evolution of altruistic preferences: mothers versus fathers. Review of Economics of the Household. 11(3). 421–446. 22 indexed citations

Cox, Donald & Beth J. Soldo. (2013). Motives for Care that Adult Children Provide to Parents: Evidence from “Point Blank” Survey Questions. Journal of Comparative Family Studies. 44(4). 491–518. 9 indexed citations

Cox, Donald. (2010). Integrating evolutionary and social science approaches to the family. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33(1). 20–21.

Cox, Donald. (2007). Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 21(2). 91–108. 30 indexed citations

Cox, Donald & Oded Stark. (2005). Bequests, Inheritances and Family Traditions. SSRN Electronic Journal. 20 indexed citations

Waldkirch, Andreas, Serena Ng, & Donald Cox. (2004). Intergenerational Linkages in Consumption Behavior. The Journal of Human Resources. 39(2). 355–355. 39 indexed citations

Cox, Donald, Bruce E. Hansen, & Emmanuel Jiménez. (2003). How responsive are private transfers to income? Evidence from a laissez-faire economy. Journal of Public Economics. 88(9-10). 2193–2219. 125 indexed citations

Cox, Donald. (2002). Private Interhousehold Transfers in Vietnam in the Early and Late 1990s. World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & Emmanuel Jiménez. (1998). Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households?. Economic Development and Cultural Change. 46(3). 621–637. 56 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald, et al.. (1998). Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru. Journal of Development Economics. 55(1). 57–80. 280 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald, et al.. (1997). FAMILY SAFETY NETS AND ECONOMIC TRANSITION: A STUDY OF WORKER HOUSEHOLDS IN POLAND. Review of Income and Wealth. 43(2). 191–209. 27 indexed citations

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Jiménez, Emmanuel, et al.. (1995). Public and Private Secondary Education in Developing Countries: A Comparative Study. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 52 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & George Jakubson. (1995). The connection between public transfers and private interfamily transfers. Journal of Public Economics. 57(1). 129–167. 150 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & Mark Robert Rank. (1992). Inter-Vivos Transfers and Intergenerational Exchange. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 74(2). 305–305. 369 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & Emmanuel Jiménez. (1990). The relative effectiveness of private and public schools. Journal of Development Economics. 34(1-2). 99–121. 48 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & Emmanuel Jiménez. (1989). The relative effectiveness of private and public schools : evidence from two developing countries. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 91 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald & John V. C. Nye. (1989). Male-Female Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century France. The Journal of Economic History. 49(4). 903–920. 19 indexed citations

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Cox, Donald. (1987). Motives for Private Income Transfers. Journal of Political Economy. 95(3). 508–546. 776 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cox, Donald. (1984). PANEL ESTIMATES OF THE EFFECTS OF CAREER INTERRUPTIONS ON THE EARNINGS OF WOMEN. Economic Inquiry. 22(3). 386–403. 22 indexed citations

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