Charles T. Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Law; Director, Center for the Study of Philanthropy & Voluntarism  

Office Location: 221 Sanford Building
Office Phone: (919) 613-7361
Email Address: charles.clotfelter@duke.edu

Areas of Expertise

  • Education
    • Accountability
    • Achievement
    • Education Finance
    • Higher Education
    • Racial/Ethnic Inequalities & Segregation
  • Public Finance, Education Finance
  • Social Policy, Lotteries and Gambling

Education:
PhD, Harvard University, 1974
M.A., Harvard University, 1972
B.A., summa cum laude, Duke University, 1969

Research Categories: Economics of Education, Social Policy, and Public Finance

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

  • Pubpol 310.01, Micro eco/pub pol making
    Sanford 05, MWF 08:45 AM-09:35 AM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor. ""Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina"." Journal of Public Economics 92 (2008): 1352-1370.
  2. Charles T. Clotfelter, Elizabeth J. Glennie, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor. ""Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low-Performing Schools: Evidence from the North Carolina $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program"." Public Finance Review 36 (2008): 63-87.
  3. Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L. Vigdor. ""School Segregation under Color-blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina"." Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law  (Accepted, 2008).
  4. Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L.Vigdor. "Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects."  .13617 (November, 2007).
  5. Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L.Vigdor. "Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying about in the U.S.?."  .13648 (November, 2007).

Bio/Profile
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.

Clotfelter was born in Birmingham, Ala., and grew up in Atlanta, Ga.

Charles T. Clotfelter