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John J. Havens Ph.D.	Phone: 617.552.4070 Fax: 617.552.3903
Boston College 140 Commonwealth Ave. 514 McGuinn, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467

John J. Havens is Senior Research Associate and Associate Director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. He received his training in mathematics, economics, and physics at Yale University and his graduate training in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Havens’s research has focused in social psychology at the Laboratory of Psychosocial Studies at Boston College; in urban transportation for the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences; in applied policy and data analysis for the American Institute for Research in Cambridge; in economic impact analyses at the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy; and for the past 17 years in economic, public policy, and philanthropy analysis for the Social Welfare Research Institute at Boston College.

His current research projects include "Dilemmas and Decisions Surrounding the Accumulation and Distribution of Financial Resources," funded by the T. B. Murphy Foundation Charitable Trust; "The Emerging Material and Spiritual Determinants of Charitable Giving by Wealth Holders," funded by the Lilly Endowment Inc.; and an expanded and refined estimation of wealth transfer over the next half century.

Dr. Havens has been recognized for the third consecutive year by the Nonprofit Times as a member of the Power and Influence Top 50 list.

140 Commonwealth Avenue - 3 Lake Street Bldg. - Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Email: age.work@bc.edu - Phone: 617.552.9195 - Fax: 617.552.9202

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