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
Duke Box: 90245
Email Address: charles.clotfelter@duke.edu
Web Page:http://big-timesports.com

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

Typical Courses Taught:

  • Pubpol 310, Microeconomics/pub pol making
  • Pubpol 195, Economics of education
  • Econ 195, Economics of education

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Charles T. Clotfelter. Big-Time Sports in American Universities. Cambridge University Press, 2011. [website]
  2. Charles T. Clotfelter. Uncle Sam Takes One for the Team.  Washington Post (December 31, 2010). [link]
  3. Charles T. Clotfelter. Is Sports in Your Mission Statement?.  The Chronicle of Higher Education (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]

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 Big-Time Sports in American Universities (Cambridge University Press, 2011), After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation (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.

Before coming to Duke in 1979, he taught at the University of Maryland, 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, vice chancellor, and vice provost for academic programs. 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