On Education, Early Childhood, and Parenting

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS AND WORKING PAPERS

Gibbs, Chloe R. “Experimental Evidence on Early Childhood Investment: The Impact of a Longer School Day,” revision requested, Journal of Human Resources. [pdf]

Gibbs, Chloe R., Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families,” revision requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [CESifo link] [EdWorkingPapers link] [pdf]

Gibbs, Chloe R. “Early Learning across Decades: Advances in Measuring Head Start Effectiveness,” revision requested, Journal of Economic Literature.

Oreopoulos, Philip, Chloe R. Gibbs, Michael Jensen, and Joseph P. Price. “Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence,” revision requested, Journal of Human Resources. NBER Working Paper no. 32388, Cambridge, MA, 2024. [NBER link] [pdf]

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. [link] [pdf] [supplemental]

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. [link] [pdf]

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. [link] [pdf]

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. [link] [pdf]

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. [NBER link] [NBER pdf] [chapter link] [chapter pdf]

“Demand-Side Child Care Subsidies When Caregiver Supply Matters: An Equilibrium Analysis” (with Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst, Aaron Sojourner, Erdal Tekin, and Matthew Wiswall) *paper is a new version of a prior collaboration with different coauthor configuration: “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. [NBER link] [NBER pdf]

“In-Kind Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from a Housing Assistance Lottery” (with Rob Collinson)

“Schooling in the Time of COVID-19: What Have We Learned?” (with Nana Addai, Martin Andersen, Chris Marsicano, and Kosali Simon)

"A Promising Alternative: How Making College Free Affects Teens' Risky Behaviors" (with Jennifer Doleac)

“Treatments, Peers, and Treatment Effects in Full-day Kindergarten: Reconciling Experimental and Quasi-experimental Impact Evidence”

WORKS IN PROGRESS

“The Maternal Employment Effects of Expanding Preschool Duration” (with Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda)

“The Role of Soft Skills in Improving High School Students’ Post-Secondary Pathways” (with Monique Davis and Abigail Wozniak)

“School Readiness and Summer Slide: Supporting Parents in the Summer Before Kindergarten”

“Staying on Track: Comprehensive Case Management to Prevent High School Dropout” (with Thomas Dee, Rebecca Margolit, and James Sullivan)

“The War on Poverty and Higher Education Access: Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Effects of Upward Bound” (with Brianna Felegi and Esra Kose)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2023 Economic Report of the President, Chapter 4, “Investing in Young Children’s Care and Education.” [link]

Borowsky, Jonathan, Jessica Brown, Elizabeth Davis, Chloe Gibbs, Chris Herbst, Erdal Tekin, and Matt Wiswall. “Fixing Child Care? What Expanded Public Subsidies Could Mean for Children, Families, and Teachers.” Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, 2022. [link]

Gibbs, Chloe. “Measuring the Broader Benefits of Early Childhood Care and Education: Families, Communities, and Society.” AEFP Live Handbook of Education Policy Research, 2025.

Gibbs, Chloe, Kevin Rinz, and others. “Quick Hits: Policies to Think About as the Administrations Changes — Families Still Need Help with Child and Elder Care.” Briefing Book, 2024. [link]

Gibbs, Chloe, Aaron Sojourner, and Kevin Rinz. “Talking Shop: The Way Forward on Child Care.” Briefing Book, 2024. [link]

Gibbs, Chloe. “The ABCs of Policy Research.” Vital City’s The Journal, 2024. [link]

Gibbs, Chloe. “Over the Child Care Cliff: The Already Challenging Child Care Market Is Likely to Become More Difficult.” Briefing Book, 2023. [link]

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. [link]

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. [link]

Weiland, Christina, Daphna Bassok, Deborah A. Phillips, Elizabeth U. Cascio, Chloe Gibbs, and Deborah Stipek. “What Does the Tennessee Pre-K Study Really Tell Us About Public Preschool Programs?” Brookings Brown Center Chalkboard, 2022. [link]