Celeste Carruthers

Expertise:

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

Education:

University of Florida, Ph.D Economics

University of New Hampshire, M.A. Economics

Appalachian State University, B.A. Economics & Accounting

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, Southern school expenditures in the wake of women’s suffrage, and the conditional black-white wage gap as of 1940. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in regulation and public expenditure analysis. Carruthers is a co-editor of Economics of Education Review, a member of the Association for Education Finance and Policy Board of Directors, 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.

Before arriving at UT in 2009, Carruthers earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida, an M.A. in economics from the University of New Hampshire, and a bachelor''s degree in economics and accounting from Appalachian State University.