Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy Studies, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. His research interests are 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, 2004), Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education (Princeton, 1996), and Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving (Chicago, 1985). He has also co-authored (with R. Ehrenberg, M. Getz, and J. Siegried) Economic Challenges in Higher Education (Chicago, 1991) and (with P. Cook) Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America (Harvard, 1989).
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