Charles T. Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics and Law; Director, Center of the Study of Philanthropy & Voluntarism
Office Location: 221 Sanford Inst Bldg
Office Phone: +1 919 613 7361
Email Address: charles.clotfelter@duke.edu
Areas of Expertise:
Education
Public Finance
Social Policy
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
Research Description:
Typical Courses Taught:
- Pubpol 310, Microeconomics/pub pol making
- Pubpol 195, Economics of education
- Econ 195, Economics of education
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- 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).
- Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L.Vigdor. "“Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying about in the U.S.?”." .13648 (November, 2007).
- Also as: Chemerinsky, Erwin and Charles Clotfelter. "The Death of Desegregation". Raleigh News and Observer (July 3, 2007).
- Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, Jacob L.Vigdor, and Justin Wheeler. "“High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals"." North Carolina Law Review 85 (June, 2007): 1345-1379.
- Clotfelter, Charles T., Helen F. Ladd, and Jacob L.Vigdor. ", “How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?”." .12828 (January, 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.
