Christian Cox

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• Cox, C. (2019). Campaign Contributions by Non-profit Executives and Government Grants. OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 18.
• Cox, C. (2022). Dark Money in Congressional House Elections
  . Economics Letters, 5.
• Cox, C., & Eguia, J. (2021). Independent commissions can ditch partisanship and make redistricting fairer to voters  . The Conversation, 5.
• Cox, C. (2023).

  Lobbying for government appropriations

  . The RAND Journal of Economics, 54(3), 443-483. doi:10.1111/1756-2171.12447
• Cox, C. (2020). Campaign Contributions by Non-profit Executives and Government Grants. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 82(4). doi:10.1111/obes.12341
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  United States election candidates seek monetary support for their campaigns and many individuals oblige. Non-profit organizations are limited in their political spending, but their executives, in a personal capacity, are not. This paper investigates whether individual campaign contributions are a political workaround for non-profits. I pair non-profit tax filings and Federal Election Commission records to form the first large-scale panel linking non-profit executive contributions and non-profit financials. My analysis covers the 1998, 2000 and 2002 elections for 29,682 non-profit organizations. I estimate a series of models and find an economically significant, robust and positive relationship.