CHLOE R. GIBBS
3057 JENKINS NANOVIC HALL
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556
PHONE: 574.631.4963
CHLOE.GIBBS@ND.EDU
EMPLOYMENT
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, College of Arts and Letters, Department of Economics – Notre Dame, IN
Assistant Professor of Economics (August 2015– )
Director, Graduate Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) (July 2021– )
Faculty Fellow, Institute for Educational Initiatives
Faculty Affiliate, William J. Shaw Center for Children and Families
Faculty Affiliate, Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities
PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS, Executive Office of the President – Washington, DC
Senior Economist, on leave from Notre Dame (July 2022–July 2023)
Federation of American Scientists Impact Fellow
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy – Charlottesville, VA
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education (August 2012–August 2015)
Joint Appointment (by courtesy), Curry School of Education
Faculty Affiliate, Center on Education Policy and Workforce Competitiveness
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, Harris School of Public Policy – Chicago, IL
Doctor of Philosophy (June 2012)
Master of Arts (March 2008)
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ford School of Public Policy – Ann Arbor, MI
Master of Public Policy (April 2003)
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, College of Arts and Letters – Notre Dame, IN
Bachelor of Arts, Government and International Studies, cum laude (May 2000)
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Barr, Andrew and Chloe R. Gibbs. “Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood.” Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 12 (2022): 3253–3285.
Bassok, Daphna, Chloe R. Gibbs, and Scott Latham. “Preschool and Children’s Outcomes in Elementary School: Have Patterns Changed Nationwide Between 1998 and 2010?” Child Development 90, no. 6 (2019): 1875–1897.
Conger, Dylan, Chloe R. Gibbs, Yuuko Uchikoshi, and Adam Winsler. “New Benefits of Public School Pre-Kindergarten Programs: Early School Stability, Grade Promotion, and Exit from ELL Services.” Early Childhood Research Quarterly 48 (2019): 26–35.
Maloney, Erin A., Benjamin A. Converse, Chloe R. Gibbs, Susan C. Levine, and Sian L. Beilock. “Jump-Starting Early Childhood Education at Home: Early Learning, Parent Motivation, and Public Policy.” Perspectives on Psychological Science 10, no. 6 (2015): 727–732.
Gibbs, Chloe, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller. “Does Head Start Do Any Lasting Good?” NBER Working Paper no. 17452, Cambridge, MA, 2011. Published as: Gibbs, Chloe, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas L. Miller. “Head Start Origins and Impacts.” In Legacies of the War on Poverty, edited by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, 39–65. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2013.
WORKING PAPERS
“Experimental Evidence on Early Investment: The Impact of Full-day Kindergarten,” revise and resubmit, Journal of Human Resources
“An Equilibrium Model of the Impact of Increased Public Investment in Early Childhood Education” (with Jonathan Borowsky, Jessica H. Brown, Elizabeth E. Davis, Chris M. Herbst, Aaron Sojourner, Erdal Tekin, and Matthew J. Wiswall), NBER Working Paper no. 30140, Cambridge, MA, 2022.
“Treatments, Peers, and Treatment Effects in Full-day Kindergarten: Reconciling Experimental and Quasi-experimental Impact Evidence”
“A Matter of Time? The Impact of Full-day Kindergarten Expansions” (with Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson)
“A Promising Alternative: How Making College Free Affects Teens' Risky Behaviors” (with Jennifer Doleac)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Gibbs, Chloe. “Does Full-day Kindergarten Reduce Achievement Gaps?” University of Wisconsin–Madison, Institute for Research on Poverty Focus Newsletter vol. 33 no. 2, Madison, WI, 2017.
Gibbs, Chloe, Jens Ludwig, Douglas L. Miller, and Na’ama Shenhav. “Short-run Fade-out in Head Start and Implications for Long-run Effectiveness.” University of California, Davis, Center for Poverty Research Policy Brief vol. 4 no. 8, Davis, CA, 2016.
Hutchinson, Chloe R. “Promising Alternative or Dangerous Experiment? Framing the Debate over Economic School Integration Policies.” Chicago Policy Review 7, no. 1 (2003): 99–116.
GRANTS
National Science Foundation Research Grants Program, Principal Investigator ($299,985), 2018–2021, “Parenting, Preschool, and the Production of School Readiness and Later Academic Outcomes”
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research’s Early Career Research Grants Program, Principal Investigator ($5,000), 2017, “Full-day Kindergarten Expansions and Maternal Employment”
Russell Sage Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation’s Improving Education and Reducing Inequality in the United States Small Grants Program, Principal Investigator ($19,961), 2016–2017, “The Impact of Full-day Kindergarten Expansions on Academic Achievement”
University of California, Davis Center for Poverty Research’s Small Grants Program, Co-PI with Andrew Barr ($31,624), 2015–2016, “Breaking the Cycle? The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start”
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Principal Investigator ($70,000), 2015–2017, “Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Longer-term Impact of Full-day Kindergarten”
University of Virginia’s Bankard Fund for Political Economy, Principal Investigator ($27,300), 2014–2015, “Does Public Schooling Facilitate Maternal Employment? Evidence from Full-day Kindergarten Expansions”
U.S. Department of Labor Scholars Program, Principal Investigator ($40,473), 2013–2014, “Unmeasured Effects? Assessing the Impact of Full-day Kindergarten on Maternal Employment”
University of Virginia’s Quantitative Collaborative Seed Grant, Principal Investigator ($3,000), 2013–2014, “Experimental and Quasi-experimental Evidence on the Longer-term Impacts of Early Intervention”
Robert Bowne Foundation’s Edmund A. Stanley, Jr. Research Grant, Co-PI with Stephen Raudenbush and Matthew Steinberg ($10,000), 2009, “Adolescent Time Use: Exploring the Role of Out-of-school Time in Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes”
HONORS AND AWARDS
University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics departmental teaching recognition, 2018
Thomas B. Fordham Institute and American Enterprise Institute, Emerging Education Policy Scholars, 2015–2016
Batten School Graduation Platform Party and Speaker, selected by student vote, 2015
U.Va.’s (secret) Society of the Purple Shadows, letter of commendation, 2015
Batten School Graduation Platform Party and Name Reader, selected by student vote, 2014
Association for Education Finance and Policy’s Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2014
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s Award for Best Dissertation in Public Policy and Management, Honorable Mention, 2012
National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship in Education, 2011–2012
U.S. Department of Education’s IES Interdisciplinary Research Training Program in the Education Sciences, Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2008–2012
Harris School’s Public Policy Student Association, Best Teaching Assistant Award, 2008–2009 and 2011–2012
Harris School’s Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Dissertation Award, 2011–2012
Harris School’s Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Pre-dissertation Award, 2010–2011
Harris School’s Center for Human Potential and Public Policy, Conference Travel Award, Winter 2010
Harris School’s Women in Public Policy, Conference Travel Award, Winter 2009
Harris School of Public Policy, Irving B. Harris Tuition Fellowship, 2006–2008
Ford School of Public Policy, Presidential Management Internship Nominee, 2003
Ford School of Public Policy, Tuition Fellowship, 2001–2002
University of Notre Dame, Dean’s List and Government Departmental Honors, 1997–2000
University of Notre Dame, Secretary, Class of 2000
TEACHING
University of Notre Dame, College of Arts and Letters, Economics Department:
Designing and Analyzing Experiments (Spring 2018) - Ph.D.
Economics of Education (Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Spring 2020) - undergraduate
Advanced Topics in Economics of Education (Spring 2017, Fall 2017) - undergraduate, writing-intensive seminar
University of Virginia, Batten School:*
Cost-Benefit Analysis (Spring 2015)
Introduction to Policy Analysis (Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
Research Methods and Data Analysis II (Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Spring 2014)
University of Chicago, Harris School:*
Education Policy and Evaluation (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012)
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012)
Labor Economics, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2012)
Principles of Microeconomics and Public Policy I, Teaching Assistant (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011)
Program Evaluation, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2009)
Political Institutions and the Policy Process, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2008, Spring 2009)
*all courses master's (MPP) level
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Workshop on Education Coordinator (2007–2009)
Research Assistant (2007) to Professors Derek Neal and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Researcher, Early Childhood Initiatives (2010–2012)
Learning Point Associates/American Institutes for Research – Chicago, IL
Senior Researcher, Evaluation Portfolio (2005–2010)
PRESENTATIONS
2019: University of Wisconsin–Madison (scheduled), Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (scheduled), Auburn University Economics Department, National Head Start Association Annual Conference
2018: University of Michigan’s War on Poverty Conference, University of Notre Dame Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame Law School, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Evidence for Policy Design Education Policy Symposium, American Economic Association Annual Meeting
2017: Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago Economics Department, Notre Dame Law & Economics Workshop, Russell Sage Foundation “Improving Education and Reducing Inequality” Conference, University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Summit, The Lab @ DC, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Society of Labor Economists Annual Meeting, University of Michigan’s H2D2 Research Conference
2016: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty “Promising Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Research on the Early Years of Life” Conference, Columbia University's Committee on the Economics of Education, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference
2015: Purdue University Economics Department, University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities “Improving Evidence, Improving Outcomes” Conference
2014: Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy, Dartmouth College Economics Department, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, University of Chicago Workshop on Human Potential, Stanford University Graduate School of Education, University of Notre Dame Economics Department, U.S. Department of Labor, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, University of California, Davis War on Poverty Conference
2013: University of Notre Dame Economics Department, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, University of Virginia Psychology Department, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Spring Conference, University of Virginia Education Policy Seminar Series, American Economic Association Annual Meeting
2012: Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, University of Michigan National Poverty Center, University of Chicago Workshop on Education, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Spring Conference, University of Notre Dame Research Center on Educational Policy, Florida State University College of Education, University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, RAND Corporation, U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences
2011: University of Michigan National Poverty Center, MDRC, University of Chicago Workshop on Education, American Economic Association Annual Meeting
SERVICE
Truman Scholarship Nomination Committee (U.Va. 2014–2015; Notre Dame 2015–2016, 2016–2017, 2017–2018, 2018–2019)
Batten School Graduate Admissions Committee (2014–2015)
Batten School MPP Curriculum Committee (2013–2014)
Batten School Faculty Search Committees (2012–2013, 2013–2014)
Professional Memberships: American Economic Association, Association for Education Finance and Policy, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Society of Labor Economists
Reviewer: Association for Education Finance and Policy, annual conference submissions (2016), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, fall research conference program committee (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018), Society for Research in Child Development, biennial meeting submissions (2016, 2018), Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, spring conference submissions (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), Washington Center for Equitable Growth, grant proposals (2018), Smith Richardson Foundation, grant proposals (2015, 2017), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant proposals (2014)
Referee: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Review, American Educational Research Journal, AERA Open, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, International Tax & Public Finance, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Public Economics, PLOS One
Advisory:
IEI Faculty Committee on Terminal Degree in Education, University of Notre Dame (2018– )
Early Childhood Working Group, University of Notre Dame (2016– )
IEI-Kellogg Institute Joint Task Force on International Education, University of Notre Dame (2016– )
Next Decade of Pre-K Evaluation Working Group, Georgetown University (2015)
MEDIA
Chalkbeat, Education Week, TIME, CNN.com, Hechinger Report, Huffington Post, KPFT (90.1) Houston, New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio, TheDailyBeast.com, U.S. News, The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics blog, The Washington Post