Jonathan Oxley

Jonathan Oxley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Management and Policy at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. His quantitative research focuses on nonprofit operations and donor behavior, using applied econometrics and experiments to study how nonprofits’ operational decisions affect giving. Those decisions include entry and exit, revenue strategies, operational efficiency, and organizational affiliations.

His work has appeared in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Voluntas, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and State and Local Government Review, along with book chapters on religious nonprofit organizations and the economics of religion.

Oxley holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University and was previously a Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity University. He won the 2024 Georgia Policy Lab Engaged Research Competition and the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy’s Wilson C. “Bill” Levis Fundraising Research Grant, and was a 2024 Lake Institute Network of Emerging Scholars fellow.