CHILD AND FAMILY POLICY - Key Persons
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- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Research Program Coordinator
Amy Wadia joined the Center in September 2018 as an implementation coach. She is currently working on the Efficacy of the DCCS Program: ESL and Classroom Teachers Working Together with Students and Families study.
Originally from West Virginia, Wadia earned her B.A. in English and an M.A. in elementary education and reading from West Virginia University. She has previous experience as a North Carolina public school teacher working as an elementary teacher and instructional coach.
Education:
M.A., Elementary Education and Reading, West Virginia University
B.A., English, West Virginia University
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- Professor in the Department of Sociology
Ann Skinner joined the Center in 2001 and is a Research Scientist with Parenting Across Cultures (PAC) and C-StARR.
Her research focuses on the ways in which stressful community, familial, and interpersonal events impact parent-child relationships and the development of aggression and internalizing behaviors in youth. She has extensive experience in data management of multisite projects and in supervising teams for school- and community-based interventions and data collection.
Skinner is a former supervisor in the Junior Researcher Programme, where she led a group of junior international scholars exploring the impact of COVID-19 on adolescent and young adult development. She is currently a 2022-23 fellow with the ICDSS COVID-19 Global Scholars Program.
Prior to her work with Parenting Across Cultures, Skinner was a senior school specialist and research analyst on the GREAT Schools and Families middle school violence prevention project at the Center, as well as Project CLASS.
Skinner has a Ph.D in developmental psychology from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, a master's degree in education, and B.A. in psychology, both from the College of William and Mary, with a focus on teaching students with emotional and learning disabilities. Before joining the Center, she worked as a special education teacher, trainer, and supervisor in the North Carolina public schools and at residential facilities for at-risk youth in Rhode Island and North Carolina.
Areas of Expertise
Adolescence to Adulthood
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- Professor
- WLF Bass Connections Professor of Public Policy & Psychology and Neuroscience
Anna Gassman-Pines is a professor of public policy and psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. She is also a Faculty Affiliate of Duke's Center for Child and Family Policy. Gassman-Pines received her BA with distinction in Psychology from Yale University and PhD in Community and Developmental Psychology from New York University. Her research focuses on low-wage work, family life and the effects of welfare and employment policy on child and maternal well-being in low-income families. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, American Psychological Association, National Head Start Association, and National Institute of Mental Health, and various private foundations.
Areas of Expertise
COVID-19
At the Center, she is investigating the relationship between birth-spacing and adverse maternal and child outcomes in North Carolina, including pregnancy and birth outcomes and child maltreatment/neglect.
Areas of Expertise
Early Care and Education
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- Research Scientist for Family Connects International
Anna Rybińska is a research scientist for Family Connects International and the Prospective Study of Infant Development. She joined the Center for Child and Family Policy in August 2019. Her research interests focus broadly on the variation in family formation patterns across time, space, and social groups and the impact of family formation patterns on the well-being of mothers and their children.
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist at the Center for Child
Ben Goodman is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy. His research interests focus broadly on the implementation and evaluation of population-based interventions to reduce child maltreatment and improve parent and child health and well-being, including the evidence-based Family Connects postpartum nurse home visiting program. His research also examines how sources of stress and support shape the quality of parent-child relationships, parents' own well- being, and child development.
Research Interests:
Home Visiting
Child Maltreatment
Parenting
Program Evaluation
Education:
Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University - 2009
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- Associate Research Professor
Beth Gifford is an associate research professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, a core faculty member of the Center for Child and Family Policy and the Margolis Center for Health Policy, and leads the Social and Economic pillar of the Children's Health and Discovery Institute. She leads a multidisciplinary research team that examines the health and social services engagement of children and families. Motivating her research is the need to understand how social policies and practices can better support children and families. Her work spans many public institutions including education, social services, criminal justice, and health care systems.
Areas of Expertise
Adolescence to Adulthood
Job Titles:
- Senior Program Coordinator
Carmen Alban joined the Center for Child and Family Policy in the summer of 2019 as an intern working on the evaluation of the East Durham Children's Initiative. She is now a senior program coordinator working on the projects 1) Randomized-Controlled Trial of Family Centered Treatment (FCT), designed to measure mental health outcomes for youth in out of home placements verses those receiving FCT; 2) Statewide Needs Assessment for Early Care and Education on behalf of the NCDHHS; 3) Kindergarten Readiness Assessment for Families and Communities Rising, designed to assist programs in measuring and assessing school readiness for preschool-age children within Durham and Chapel Hill; and 4) Early Identification and Prevention of Child Maltreatment Project, which aims to better predict which children who are the subject of alleged maltreatment experience poor outcomes in the health and social services systems.
Alban graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in public policy and minors in education and economics. She completed an honors thesis evaluating Duke University's sexual assault prevention programs.
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- Professor
- Professor of Public Policy and Sociology
Christina M. Gibson-Davis is a professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, with a secondary appointment in sociology. Her research interests center around social and economic differences in family formation patterns. Her current research focuses on the how divergent patterns of family formation affect economic inequality.
Areas of Expertise
Families and Parenting
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- Research Program Coordinator
Claire Morgan joined the Center for Child and Family Policy as a research staff assistant in February 2021. She is currently a research program coordinator, supporting research logistics, internal grant applications, and events at the Center. She has worked on projects such as the Statewide Needs Assessment for Early Care and Education on behalf of the NCDHHS and the Center's national policy conference, "The Next Step in Early Childhood Policy: Creating a Universal System of Care for Families with Young Children."
Before joining the Center, she worked with the executive education team at the Nicholas School of the Environment, supporting short courses and workshops for environmental professionals. Prior to the Nicholas School, she was a research assistant for The Graduate School at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Education:
MPA, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.A., English Literature, Whitworth University
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- Associate Research Professor Emerita
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- Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Darlene Brooks joined the Center as a senior research aide on the DCCS Program: ESL and Classroom Teachers Working Together with Students and Families project in November 2018. Her association with the Center began, however, in 2016 when she worked as a private contractor for the Duke Incredible Years study and the Duke TRI Project. Prior to working with the Center, Brooks retired from a 12-year career as a high school math teacher, having worked in both Durham and Wake counties. Most of her career experience has been related to the field of telecommunications, having worked as an outside plant engineer and as a configuration manager. Brooks volunteers with several civic and fraternal organizations that have outreach to children and adolescents living in Wake and Durham counties.
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- Research Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Professor of Law at Duke Law School
Doriane Coleman is a Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where she specializes in interdisciplinary scholarship focused on women, children, medicine, sports, and law. Her recent work has centered on sex, including its evolving definition and its implications for institutions ranging from elite sport to medicine and, of course, to law. A first article in this series, Sex in Sport , is at 80 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 63-126 (2017), and a second, Re-affirming the Value of the Sports Exception to Title IX's General Non-Discrimination Rule, is at 27 DUKE J. GENDER L. & POL'Y 69 (2020). She is currently working on a third article on Sex in Medicine and a book project called Sex in Law.
A regular teacher of Torts, Coleman is co-author of the first-year casebook Torts: Doctrine and Process (2019). She is also co-director of the Law School's Center for Sports Law and Policy, a faculty affiliate of the University's Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and the History of Medicine, and the Center for Child and Family Policy. Her recent cross-campus projects include co-leading a Bass Connections team on Cheating, Gaming, and Rule Fixing: Challenges for Ethics Across the Adversarial Professions (2018-19), and directing the program Head Trauma in Football: Implications for Medicine, Law, and Policy (2018).
Coleman received her Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown Law (1988), and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell University (1982). She was a litigation associate at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering before beginning her academic and teaching career at Howard University School of Law. While she was at Wilmer, she worked on the development of the world's first random, out-of-competition drug-testing program for what is now USA Track & Field, a project which led to her years-long engagement with the Olympic Movement's anti-doping efforts.
Before law school, Coleman ran the 800 meters in collegiate and international competition, where she was a multiple All American, All East, and All Ivy athlete, the U.S. National Collegiate Indoor Champion in 1982, the U.S. National Indoor Champion (with teammates) in the 4 x 400 meters relay in 1982, and the Swiss National Champion in 1982 and 1983. Over her athletic career she competed for Villanova, Cornell, the Swiss and U.S. National Teams, Athletics West, the Santa Monica and Atoms Track Clubs, and Lausanne Sports.
Drew Rothenberg joined the Center for Child and Family Policy as a postdoctoral associate in September 2018 and now works as a Research Scientist at the Center. His research is focused on the development of adaptive and maladaptive parenting practices and family processes across ontogeny, culture and generations. Utilizing a developmental psychopathology framework, he examines how parenting practices, family dynamics, and evidence-based mental health interventions affect normal and abnormal child development. His program of research has three aims. First, he explores how maladaptive family processes can be passed from one generation to the next. Second, he identifies strategies to prevent the intergenerational transmission of these processes in different culture contexts. Third, he implements these preventative interventions in medically underserved communities that need them the most.
He currently works on the Childhood Risk Factors and Young Adult Competence project, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, as part of the Parenting Across Cultures research team.
Areas of Expertise
Families and Parenting
Job Titles:
- Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Caspi's research is concerned with three questions: (1) How do childhood experiences shape aging and the course of health inequalities across the life span? (2) How do genetic differences between people shape the way they respond to their environments? (3) How do mental health problems unfold across and shape the life course?
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- Research Analyst
- Research Analyst II
Elizabeth Love is an experienced research analyst with complex statewide research and evaluation studies focused on systems improvement for early childhood programming. She works with the Evaluation of the Navigation Prevention Program in Durham, informing the collaborative community effort Get Ready Guilford Initiative (GRGI). Love supports this program by serving as a prenatal navigator assisting expecting mothers with community alignment and by serving as a project coordinator.
Love is currently pursuing her M.A. in Psychology with a clinical concentration at North Carolina Central University. In her own work, she values implementing an equity lens in the fields of adverse experiences and the developmental psychopathology of trauma-related disorders.
Love spends her spare time making music, hiking, traveling, worshiping food, and being with her loved ones.
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist at the Center for Child
Emmy Reilly is a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy, who earned her Ph.D. in developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development with Dr. Megan Gunnar. Dr. Reilly's research focuses on supporting warm, nurturing parenting during infancy and toddlerhood, including investigating possible underlying skills for sensitive parenting including compassion, self-compassion, and the regulation of stress physiology. She aims to support child development by investigating the efficacy of programs that support parents with young children on the parent-child relationship and parent and child well-being.
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- Clinical Social Worker
- Associate in Research
- Project Director for the Building Capacity for Trauma - Informed Infant & Toddler Care
Ennis Baker is the project director for the Building Capacity for Trauma-Informed Infant & Toddler Care: A Professional Development Framework project. In this role, she provides leadership for this new collaborative project that will leverage existing resources to craft a professional development framework focused on trauma-informed practice in infant/toddler care. The framework will be designed to be practical, evidence-based, sustainable and maximally effective for children under age 3 in North Carolina licensed child care and for the teachers and child care administrators who care for them.
Baker is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in early childhood mental health and has served in a variety of roles serving vulnerable children ages birth to 5 and their families. She began her career as a toddler teacher in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point neighborhood in 1988 and since 1990 has lived and worked in various counties in North Carolina, focusing on children under age 5 as a child care provider, home visitor, program director and on a multidisciplinary evaluation team.
From 1999-2018, Baker served as a manager and mental health specialist for Orange County Head Start/Early Head Start in Chapel Hill, NC. In this role, she provided leadership and early childhood mental health consultation to program staff and families around issues of toxic stress, child abuse and neglect, best practice in infant/toddler child care, parenting, preventing and managing children's challenging behavior, adult and child mental health, and strengthening families by promoting protective factors. Baker is trained as a facilitator/parent educator in Triple P Level 3, Incredible Years Parenting Program, Circle of Security Parenting and Darkness to Light/Stewards of Children. She has co-chaired the Orange/Chatham Early Childhood Mental Health Task Force since 2012 and has co-led the Orange RESILIENCE Initiative since 2017.
Erika Hanzely-Layko has been planning conferences, meetings and events for the Center for Child and Family Policy since March 2005. She has over 30 years of experience in event planning, communications, marketing and public relations.
Education:
B.A. Youngstown State University - 1988
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Dr. Puffer is a global mental health researcher and a licensed clinical psychologist. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating integrated community-based interventions to promote child mental health, improve family functioning, and prevent HIV risk behavior. Her work includes studies with families with young children through those with adolescents, as well as with couples. She has conducted much of this work in rural Kenya and is an investigator on multiple studies of child mental health, family well-being, and parenting interventions in Thailand, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Sudan, and Iraq. Among Dr. Puffer's primary collaborators are the International Rescue Committee, a humanitarian organization, the Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research in Kenya, and AMPATH, a consortium between North American medical schools and Moi University in Kenya.
Professor Sloan is interested in studying the subjects of health policy and the economics of aging, hospitals, health, pharmaceuticals, and substance abuse. He has received funding from numerous research grants that he earned for studies of which he was the principal investigator. His most recent grants were awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Center for Disease Control, the Pew Charitable Trust, and the National Institute on Aging. Titles of his projects include, "Why Mature Smokers Do Not Quit," "Legal and Economic Vulnerabilities of the Master Settlement Agreement," "Determinants and Cost of Alcohol Abuse Among the Elderly and Near-elderly," and "Reinsurance Markets and Public Policy." He received the Investigator Award for his work on the project, "Reoccurring Crises in Medical Malpractice." Some of his earlier works include the studies entitled, "Policies to Attract Nurses to Underserved Areas," "The Impact of National Economic Conditions on the Health Care of the Poor-Access," and "Analysis of Physician Price and Output Decisions." Professor Sloan's latest research continues to investigate the trends and repercussions of medical malpractice, physician behavior, and hospital behavior.
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- R. David Thomas Professor of Marketing
Gavan J. Fitzsimons is the R. David Thomas professor of marketing and psychology at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. His research focuses on understanding the ways in which consumers may be influenced without their conscious knowledge or awareness by marketers and marketing researchers, often without any intent on the part of the marketer. His work has been published in numerous academic journals such as the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. His ideas have also been featured in many popular press outlets such as NPR, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Psychology Today, Oprah Magazine and Time Magazine, amongst many others.
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- Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University
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- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Helen F. Ladd is the Susan B. King Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. Her education research focuses on school finance and accountability, teacher labor markets, school choice, and early childhood programs. With colleagues at Duke University and UNC, she has used rich longitudinal administrative data from North Caroline to study school segregation, teacher labor markets, teacher quality, charter schools, and early childhood programs. With her husband, Edward Fiske, she has written books and articles on education reform efforts in New Zealand, South Africa, the Netherlands, and England.
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- ITTI Care Project Coach
- Project Coach
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- Assistant Professor of Economics
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- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Professor of Statistical Science
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- Director, N.C. Education Research Data Center
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- Associate Research Professor
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- Associate Professor in Medicine
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- Associate Director for Administration
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- Associate Research Professor
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- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Associate Professor of the Practice of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics
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- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor of Pediatrics
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- Senior Research Scientist
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- Distinguished Professor
- Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
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- Clinical Research Specialist
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- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Marketing Distinguished Professor
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- Distinguished Research Professor of Public Policy
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- Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics
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- Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Senior Research Data Tech
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- Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
She is the co-author or co-editor of 12 books. These include Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (Brookings Institution, 1996); The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008 and second edition 2015), books on school reform in New Zealand and South Africa, and Educational Goods: Values, Evidence and Decision Making (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
From 1996-99 she co-chaired a National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance. In that capacity she is the co-editor of two books: a set of background papers, Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance and the final report, Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools.
In 2011, she was elected to membership in the National Academy of Education. During 2016 and 2017 she served as a member of a National Academy study of financing early care and education with a highly qualified workforce. She is currently a member of the N.C. Governor's Commission on Access to a Sound, Basic Education.
She was president of the Association for Public Policy and Management in 2011 and, from its founding in 2008 until 2017 was co-chair of the national campaign for a Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.
Prior to 1986, she taught at Dartmouth College, Wellesley College, and at Harvard University, first in the City and Regional Planning Program and then in the Kennedy School of Government. She graduated with a B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1967, received a master's degree from the London School of Economics in 1968, and earned her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1974.
Early in her career, her research focused on state and local public finance, and she was active in the National Tax Association, which she served as president in 1993-94. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, a senior research fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution.
With the support of two Fulbright grants, she spent the spring term of 1998 in New Zealand studying that country's education system and the spring term of 2002 doing similar research in South Africa. More recently, she spent a term as a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam examining the Netherlands' long experience with parental choice and weighted student funding, and two months in London at the Institute for Fiscal Studies pursuing research on school improvement and English academies.
Areas of Expertise
K-12 Education
Job Titles:
- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor
Philip J. Cook is ITT/Sanford Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University. He served as director and chair of Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy from 1985-89, and again from 1997-99. Cook is an honorary Fellow in the American Society of Criminology. In 2001 he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Cook joined the Duke faculty in 1973 after earning his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice (Criminal Division) and to the U.S. Department of Treasury (Enforcement Division). He has served in a variety of capacities with the National Academy of Sciences, including membership on expert panels dealing with alcohol-abuse prevention, violence, school shootings, underage drinking, the deterrent effect of the death penalty, and proactive policing. He served as vice chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Law and Justice.
Cook's primary focus at the moment is the economics of crime. He is co-director of the NBER Work Group on the Economics of Crime, and co-editor of a NBER volume on crime prevention. He also has ongoing projects on education policy and academic performance, with recent publications on starting age for public schools, and on how lead exposure affects academic performance and delinquency.
Over much of his career, one strand of Cook's research concerns the prevention of alcohol-related problems through restrictions on alcohol availability. An early article was the first to demonstrate persuasively that alcohol taxes have a direct effect on the death rate of heavy drinkers, and subsequent research demonstrated the moderate efficacy of minimum-purchase-age laws in preventing fatal crashes. Together with Michael J. Moore, he focused on the effects of beer taxes on youthful drinking and the consequences thereof, finding that more restrictive policies result in lower rates of abuse, higher college graduation rates and lower crime rates. His book on the subject is Paying the Tab: The Costs and Benefits of Alcohol Control, (Princeton University Press, 2007; 2016 in paper).
A second strand has concerned the costs and consequences of the widespread availability of guns, and what might be done about it. His book (with Jens Ludwig), Gun Violence: The Real Costs (Oxford University Press, 2000), develops and applies a framework for assessing costs that is grounded in economic theory and is quite at odds with the traditional "Cost of Injury" framework. His book with Kristin A. Goss, The Gun Debate (Oxford University Press 2014, 2020) is intended for a general audience seeking an objective assessment of the myriad relevant issues. He is currently heading up an evaluation of the Chicago Police Department's Area Technology Centers, together with a team from the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
Cook has also co-authored two other books: with Charles Clotfelter on state lotteries (Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America, Harvard University Press, 1989), and with Robert H. Frank on the causes and consequences of the growing inequality of earnings (The Winner-Take-All Society, The Free Press, 1995). The Winner-Take-All Society was named a "Notable Book of the Year, 1995" by the New York Times Book Review. It has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Polish, and Korean.
Areas of Expertise
K-12 Education
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- Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
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- Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
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- Research Professor Emeritus in the Social Science Research Institute
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- Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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- Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies
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- Professor Emeritus of Public Policy
- Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University
- Professor of Public Policy
Charles Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University, where he taught from 1979 to 2023. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His major research interests are in the economics of education, the nonprofit sector, and public finance.
He is the author of Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity (Harvard University Press, 2017), 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 is also coauthor (with Philip Cook) of Selling Hope: State Lotteries in America (Princeton University Press, 1989) and has coauthored or edited five other books pertaining to higher education and the nonprofit sector. He was co-winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association for the best political science publication in the field of U.S. national policy in 2004, for After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation. In 2011, he was selected to give the Spencer Foundation Award Lecture at the meetings of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. In 2015 he was elected to the National Academy of Education.
Clotfelter received a B.A. from Duke University in 1969, where he majored in history, summa cum laude, and he received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1974. Before coming to Duke, he taught at the University of Maryland, spending his last year there on leave at the U.S. Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis. While at Duke, he has served as vice provost for academic policy and planning, vice chancellor, vice provost for academic programs, and associate dean of academic programs at the Sanford School of Public Policy. 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. During the 2013/14 year he was a fellow at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice, at the N.Y.U. School of Law.
He was born in Birmingham, Ala., and grew up in Atlanta, Ga.