Christian Cox
- Assistant Professor, Economics
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-6224
- McClelland Hall, Rm. 401
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- christiancox@arizona.edu
Bio
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Interests
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Courses
2025-26 Courses
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Data Anal & Mdl: Quant Anl-Ecn
ECON 453 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Comp Methods Dyn Mod in Econ
ECON 502B (Spring 2025) -
Honors Thesis
ECON 498H (Spring 2025) -
Honors Thesis
ECON 498H (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Data Anal & Mdl: Quant Anl-Ecn
ECON 453 (Spring 2024) -
Econ of Politics & Policymkng
ECON 337 (Spring 2024)
Scholarly Contributions
Journals/Publications
- 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.12341More infoUnited 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.
