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Charles T. Clotfelter

Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy; Professor of Economics and Law; Director, Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism
CCFP Faculty Fellow

Charles Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University, 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 of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His major research interests are in the economics of education, the nonprofit sector, public finance and tax policy.

He is the author of After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education (Princeton University Press, 1996), and Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving (University of Chicago Press, 1985). He has co-authored books pertaining to the costs of higher education, lotteries, and philanthropy and the nonprofit sector.

He taught at the University of Maryland from 1974 to 1979, spending his last year there on leave at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis, where he was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow. While at Duke, he has served as vice provost for academic policy and planning from 1983 to 1985, vice chancellor from 1985 to 1988 and vice provost for academic programs from 1993 to 1994. He has also served as president of the Southern Economic Association. During the 2005/06 year he was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Education:

• PhD Harvard University - 1974
• M.A. Harvard University - 1972
• B.A., summa cum laude Duke University - 1969

Teaching Fall 2012:

• PUBPOL 590S.02, ADV TOP IN PUBLIC POLICY Synopsis
  Sanford 150, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
• PUBPOL 810.01, MICRO ECO/PUB POL MAKING Synopsis
  Sanford 05, MWF 08:45 AM-09:35 AM

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Charles T. Clotfelter (2011). Big-Time Sports in American Universities.. Cambridge University Press. [website]


2. Charles T. Clotfelter "Uncle Sam Takes One for the Team."  December 31, 2010 [link]


3. Charles T. Clotfelter "Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?."  October 24, 2010 [pdf]


4. Charles T. Clotfelter ""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; “80 Years of Trade-Offs in College Sports,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 27, 2009."  [pdf]

1. Sports and Populism at State U, Spencer Award Lecture, APPAM, November 4, 2011
2. Success in Community Colleges: Do Institutions Differ?, APPAM meetings, Washington DC, November 3, 2011
3. Is Commercial Sports a Core University Function?, Northwestern University Graduate Program in Human Development and Social Policy, October 25, 2011
4. Is Early Algebra Worth It?, University of Notre Dame, October 7, 2011
5. Some Economics of Big-Time College Sports, University of Notre Dame, October 6, 2011