
Celeste Carruthers
Celeste Carruthers is an associate professor in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee 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. 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.
Media & Press Releases
- The Dark Side of Lottery-Funded Scholarships - Inside Higher Ed
- Administrators sound alarm: Half of Tennessee high school graduates aren't going to college - Knoxville News Sentinel
- University of Tennessee business college receives $3 million gift - WATE
- Does Free College Work? - The New York Times
- COVID-19 could shrink the earnings of 2020 graduates for years to come - The Conversation
- 5 things to know about the Tennessee Promise Scholarship - Brookings
- Haslam Summer Scholars Research Awards Surpass the $1M Funding Mark
- Can Ending Teacher Tenure Improve Student Achievement? A Case Study in Florida Yields Important Results - The 74
- UT to Partner with Georgia State to Study Career Technical Programs
- Should college give rich kids a free ride? - U.S. News & World Report