Charles T. Clotfelter (born August 20, 1947) is an

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

and the Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at the

Sanford School of Public Policy The Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University is named after former Duke president and Governor of North Carolina Terry Sanford, who established the university's Institute for Policy Sciences and Public Affairs in 1971 as an interdiscipl ...

at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he has taught since 1979. He is also director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism at Duke and is a research associate for the

National Bureau of Economic Research The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic c ...

. His primary research interests include the

economics of education Education economics or the economics of education is the study of economic issues relating to education, including the demand for education, the financing and provision of education, and the comparative efficiency of various educational programs ...

, the

nonprofit sector The voluntary sector, independent sector, or civic sector is the realm of social activity undertaken by organizations that are non-governmental nonprofit organizations. This sector is also called the third sector, community sector, and nonprofit s ...

tax policy Tax policy includes the guidelines developed by a government regarding how taxes are imposed, in what amounts, and on whom. It has both microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects. The macroeconomic aspect concerns the overall quantity of taxes t ...

and

public finance Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy. It is the branch of economics that assesses the government revenue and government expenditure of the public authorities and the adjustment of one or the other to achiev ...

. During his time at Duke, Clotfelter has served as vice provost for academic policy and planning (1983-1985), vice chancellor (1985-1988) and vice provost for academic programs (1993-1994). He also has served as president of the

Southern Economic Association The Southern Economic Association (SEA) is a regional-based scholarly economic An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that e ...

and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation for the 2005-06 year. He was ranked among the most influential scholars in the nation’s dialogue on education in the 2014 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence List. Prior to teaching at Duke, Clotfelter taught at the

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of M ...

from 1974 to 1979, spending his last year on leave as a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow at the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Analysis. Born in

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% fr ...

, Clotfelter grew up in

Atlanta, Georgia Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,7 ...

. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a B.A. in 1969. He then studied at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, receiving an M.A. in 1972 and PhD in economics in 1974.

Books

*''Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity''. 2017.

Harvard University Press Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retir ...

. *''Big-Time Sports in American Universities''. 2011.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer. Cambridge University Pre ...

. *''After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation''. 2004.

Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financia ...

. *''Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education''. 1996. Princeton University Press. *''Economic Challenges in Higher Education''. 1991.

University of Chicago Press The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States. It is operated by the University of Chicago and publishes a wide variety of academic titles, including ''The Chicago Manual of Style'', ...

. (with Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Malcolm Getz, and John J. Siegfried) *''Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America''. 1989.

. (with Philip J. Cook). *''Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving''. 1985. University of Chicago Press.

Op-Eds

*"It's Madness as universities play for pay" ''Raleigh News and Observer'' (March 11, 2011). Also published as "March Madness: Universities in the entertainment business" ''Seattle Times'' (March 11, 2011), "March Madness: Sports' stranglehold on education" ''Sun-Sentinel'' (March 13, 2011) and "The NCAA bracket racket" ''The Globe and Mail'' (March 9, 2011). *"Stop the Tax Deduction for Major College Sports Programs" ''Washington Post'' (December 31, 2010). *"Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?" ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' (October 24, 2010). *"Hold That Line? For 80 Years, Universities Haven’t” ''Raleigh News and Observer'' (October 22, 2009). Also published as "College Athletics under Fire" ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'' (October 25, 2009) and "80 Years of Trade-Offs in College Sports" ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' (November 27, 2009). *"The Death of Desegregation" (with Erwin Chemerinsky) ''Raleigh News and Observer'' (July 3, 2007). Also published as "Abandoning the Promise" ''Baltimore Sun'' (July 5, 2007). *"What If The Lottery Were Run For Lottery Players?" (with Philip J. Cook) ''Raleigh News & Observer'' (March 1, 2007). *"Surprising Progress Among Hispanic Students" (with Helen F. Ladd and Jacob Vigdor) ''Raleigh News and Observer'' (June 5, 2006). Also published as "Latinos’ School Performance Progressive, Not Stagnant, Study Suggests" ''Contra Costa Times'' (June 4, 2006). *"The Decline of Diversity in Our Schools" ''Washington Post'' (May 15, 2004).

Awards

*Co-winner, Gladys M. Kammerer Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best political science publication in 2004 in the field of U.S. national policy. For "After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation". * Raymond Vernon Memorial Prize for best article published in ''Journal of Policy Analysis and Management'', 2004. For Clotfelter, Helen Ladd, Jacob Vigdor, and Aliaga Diaz, “Do School Accountability Systems Make it More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?” Vol. 23 (Spring 2004).

References

External links

- Charles Clotfelter's Official Duke Bio

- National Bureau of Economic Research publications by Charles Clotfelter
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