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Celeste Carruthers

William F. Fox Distinguished Professor of Labor Economics

Location Room - A143, Cherokee Mills , United States

Department:

Economics

Center:

Boyd Center for Business & Economic Research

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Biography

Celeste Carruthers is the William F. Fox Distinguished Professor of Labor Economics in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research. Her research centers on education policy with crossovers into public economics, labor economics and economic history. Her recent and ongoing projects examine the effect of financial aid on college choices, career and technical education and the consequences of segregated schools in the early 20th-century United States. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public expenditure analysis, causal inference and econometrics. Carruthers is the Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Education Review, a former member of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Board of Directors, a member of the CTE Research Network at the American Institutes for Research, an affiliated researcher with the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) and she has served as a faculty advisor to several fellows in the Harvard Graduate School of Education Strategic Data Project.

Expertise:

Applied Econometrics, Economic History, Education, Health Economics, Labor Economics, Public Economics & Taxation

Education:

2009 University of Florida, Ph.D, Economics

2005 University of New Hampshire, M.A., Economics

2004 Appalachian State University, B.S.B.A., Economics & Accounting

Awards/Honors
  • Finalist, Haslam College of Business Martin & Carol Robinson Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Service Award, 2022
  • Finalist, Haslam College of Business Richard C. Reizenstein Outstanding Commitment to Students Award, 2022
  • Georgescu-Roegen Prize for best 2020 academic article published in Southern Economic Journal.
  • American Education Research Association Outstanding Reviewer, 2019
  • Haslam College of Business Vallett Family Outstanding Researcher Award, 2017
  • Haslam College of Business Summer Research Award recipient, 2016-17
  • University of Tennessee Department of Economics Third-year Paper Advising Award, 2016
  • University of Tennessee QUEST Scholar of the Week: February 29, 2016
  • 2010 Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award, in recognition of exemplary dissertation research in education finance, American Education Finance Association
  • University of Tennessee QUEST Scholar of the Week: May 2, 2010
  • Edward Zabel Award, outstanding advanced graduate student, University of Florida
  • Walter-Lanzillotti Award, outstanding dissertation research, University of Florida
  • Robert F. Lanzillotti Prize, top second-year paper, University of Florida
  • Lockhart Award, travel support, University of Florida
  • Rafael Lufsky Prize, top first-year graduate student, University of Florida
  • Elizabeth Bogan Prize, top M.A. recipient, University of New Hampshire