2026 Charles T. Clotfelter: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	64	647	581	412	363	166	17474

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association (APSA)

Overview

Charles T. Clotfelter is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the social sciences. Their work spans multiple related subfields including education, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, economics and econometrics, and general decision sciences.

The main areas of research focus cover topics related to school choice and performance, critical race theory in education, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, parental involvement in education, gambling behavior and treatments, sports analytics and performance, as well as decision-making and behavioral economics.

Recent papers authored by Charles T. Clotfelter include:

School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice, 2021, Urban Affairs Review
Racial Differences in Student Access to High-Quality Teachers, 2023, Education Finance and Policy
Better State Lotteries, 2023, Public Finance Review
White Advantage in Teacher Assignment, 2021, Brown Digital Repository
School Segregation at the Classroom Level in a Southern 'New Destination' State, 2021, Race and Social Problems

They have published frequently in venues such as Urban Affairs Review, Education Finance and Policy, Public Finance Review, Brown Digital Repository, and Race and Social Problems.

Frequent coauthors of Charles T. Clotfelter include:

Helen F. Ladd
Mavzuna Turaeva
Calen R. Clifton
Steven W. Hemelt

Charles T. Clotfelter received the Gladys M. Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 2005.

Best Publications

Tax Evasion and Tax Rates: An Analysis of Individual Returns

Charles T. Clotfelter

1330
Citations
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement: Longitudinal Analysis with Student Fixed Effects.

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

1286
Citations
Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

1228
Citations
Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America

Charles T Clotfelter;Philip J Cook

860
Citations
High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor;Justin Wheeler

853
Citations
Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob Vigdor

832
Citations
Federal Tax Policy and Charitable Giving

Charles T. Clotfelter

639
Citations
Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina

Charles Clotfelter;Charles Clotfelter;Elizabeth Glennie;Helen Ladd;Jacob Vigdor;Jacob Vigdor

599
Citations
Charitable Giving, Income, and Taxes: An Analysis of Panel Data

Gerald E. Auten;Holger Sieg;Charles T. Clotfelter

527
Citations
Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low-performing schools to attract and retain high-quality teachers?

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor;Roger Aliaga Diaz

429
Citations
How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement

Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

388
Citations
Notes: The Gambler's Fallacy in Lottery Play

Charles T. Clotfelter;Philip J. Cook

374
Citations
The Peculiar Scale Economies of Lotto

Philip J Cook;Charles T Clotfelter

339
Citations
The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8

Charles T Clotfelter;Helen F Ladd;Jacob L Vigdor

319
Citations
Tax incentives and charitable contributions in the United States: A microeconometric analysis

Martin Feldstein;Charles Clotfelter

287
Citations
On the Economics of State Lotteries

Charles T. Clotfelter;Philip J. Cook

277
Citations
Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

276
Citations
Implicit Taxation in Lottery Finance

Charles T Clotfelter;Philip J Cook

250
Citations
How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? NBER Working Paper No. 12828.

Charles T. Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob L. Vigdor

242
Citations
Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education

Charles T. Clotfelter

242
Citations
High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals. Sanford Working Paper Series. SAN06-08.

Charles Clotfelter;Helen F. Ladd;Jacob Vigdor;Justin Wheeler

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen F. Ladd Duke University

Jacob L. Vigdor University of Washington

Philip J. Cook Duke University

Ronald G. Ehrenberg Cornell University

John J. Siegfried Vanderbilt University

Michael Rothschild University of Wisconsin–Madison

Martin Feldstein Harvard University

Linda H. Aiken University of Pennsylvania

Paul Dimaggio New York University

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