CHLOE R. GIBBS
3060 JENKINS NANOVIC HALL
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA 46556
PHONE: 574.631.4963
CHLOE.GIBBS@ND.EDU
RECENT 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– )
Research Affiliate, IZA Institute of Labor Economics – Bonn, Germany (April 2024– )
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 Childhood Investment: The Impact of a Longer School Day,” revision requested, Journal of Human Resources. [pdf]
“A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families” (with Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson), revision requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. [pdf]
“Early Learning across Decades: Advances in Measuring Head Start Effectiveness.” Revision requested, Journal of Economic Literature.
“Teaching Teachers to Use Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence” (with Philip Oreopoulos, Michael Jensen, and Joseph P. Price), revision requested, Journal of Human Resources. NBER Working Paper no. 32388, Cambridge, MA, 2024. [NBER link] [NBER pdf]
“In-Kind Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Housing Assistance Lotteries” (with Rob Collinson)
“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 replaces prior collaboration: “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]
“Schooling in the Time of COVID-19: What Have We Learned?” (with Nana Addai, Martin Andersen, Ann Bernhardt, Chris Marsicano, Rylie Martin, and Kosali Simon)
“Treatments, Peers, and Treatment Effects in Full-day Kindergarten: Reconciling Experimental and Quasi-experimental Impact Evidence”
“A Promising Alternative: How Making College Free Affects Teens' Risky Behaviors” (with Jennifer Doleac)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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: Reading, Writing, and Revisiting Our Findings.” Vital City’s The Journal and Niskanen Center’s Hypertext, 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]
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 blog, 2022. [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 blog, 2022. [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]
GRANTS
Smith Richardson Foundation, Co-PI with Abigail Wozniak ($155,000), 2022–2024, “The Role of Soft Skills in Improving High School Students’ Post-Secondary Pathways: The Governor’s Work Ethic Certificate Program”
Russell Sage Foundation, Principal Investigator ($30,000), 2022–2024, “This Woman’s Work: Understanding the Role of Public Education in Maternal Employment”
Federation of American Scientists, Impact Fellow ($116,000), 2022–2023
J-PAL North America, Co-PI with Thomas S. Dee and James X. Sullivan ($80,000), 2022–2023, “Can Comprehensive Case Management in High School Promote Educational and Economic Equity?”
J-PAL North America, Co-PI with Phil Oreopoulos and Joe Price ($150,000), 2021–2023, “Khoaching with Khan Academy: Leveraging Computer Assisted Learning, Teachers, and Parents to Facilitate Personalized Learning at Scale”
AERA-NSF Research Grants Program, Principal Investigator ($25,000), 2021–2023, “The War on Poverty and Higher Education Access: Educational Attainment and Intergenerational Effects of Upward Bound”
National Science Foundation Research Grants Program, Principal Investigator ($299,985), 2018–2022, “Parenting, Preschool, and the Production of School Readiness and Later Academic Outcomes”
J-PAL North America, Co-PI with Sean Corcoran, Sarah Kroeger, and James X. Sullivan ($50,000), 2020–2023, “Understanding the Importance of Summer Learning in a Pandemic”
Indiana University School of Medicine’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Principal Investigator ($4,000), 2020–2021, “Schools, Students, and COVID-19”
Notre Dame’s Faculty Research Support Program Initiation Grant, Principal Investigator ($9,962), 2020, “Improving High School Students’ Post-Secondary Pathways”
Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Large Henkels Grant, Organizing Faculty Member ($17,939), 2020 (postponed), “Economics of Education Conference at Notre Dame”
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 and 2023
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
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
2025: Nebraska Labor Summit (scheduled), Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference (scheduled), University College London’s Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities Annual Lecture (scheduled), Atlanta Workshop on Public Policy and Child Well-being
2024: Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, University of Kentucky Martin School of Public Policy and Administration, NBER Economics of Mobility Conference, Midwest Economics of Education Conference, Urban Institute’s joint Quantitative Methods – Education Policy seminar, Inter-American Development Bank Care Economy Conference Keynote, Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness Conference, University of Nebraska Economics Department, NBER Summer Institute – Labor Studies, NBER Summer Institute – Children and Families (x2), University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, Brookings Institution Care Economy Conference, Michigan State University’s Education Policy Seminar, Columbia University Committee on the Economics of Education, National Head Start Association Leadership Institute Keynote, UCLA/University of Chicago’s Stone Center War on Poverty Conference
2023: MIT Blueprint Preschool Convening, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families’ National Research Conference on Early Childhood
2022: Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Research Conference, Temple University Economics Department
2021: University of Michigan Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, University of South Carolina Economics Department, University of Kentucky Economics Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop, University of Munich Economics Department, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine “Guiding Perspectives from the Social and Behavioral Sciences on Promoting Intergenerational Mobility” Panel, World Bank Global Education Practice Brownbag Series, Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, American Economic Association Annual Meeting
2020: Norwegian School of Economics Workshop (canceled), Midwest Economics Association Annual Meeting (canceled), University of Colorado–Denver Economics Department (postponed), University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Summer Research Workshop (canceled), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference (canceled), Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting (canceled), Regenstrief Institute’s Indiana Pandemic Information Collaborative
2019: University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, 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, 2019–2020, 2020–2021, 2021–2022)
Batten School Graduate Admissions Committee (2014–2015)
Batten School MPP Curriculum Committee (2013–2014)
Batten School Faculty Search Committees (2012–2013, 2013–2014)
Reviewer: Association for Education Finance and Policy, annual conference submissions (2016, 2020), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, fall research conference program committee (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), J-PAL North America, research grant proposals (2020, 2021, 2025), National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation post-doctoral fellowship proposals (2022), National Science Foundation, research grant proposals (2018), Russell Sage Foundation, grant proposals (2025), Smith Richardson Foundation, grant proposals (2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2024), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, grant proposals (2014), 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, 2022), Washington Center for Equitable Growth, grant proposals (2018, 2025)
Referee: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Review, American Educational Research Journal, AERA Open, Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Economic Inquiry, Economics Bulletin, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, International Tax & Public Finance, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Journal of Public Economics, PLOS One, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics
Advisory:
Inter-American Development Bank, External Academic Advisor (2024– ), Midwest Economics of Education Conference at Notre Dame, Co-Organizer (2024– ), Child Care and Pre-K Research Working Group (2021– ), Dear Pandemic science communication platform, Senior Education Adviser (2020–2021), Next Decade of Pre-K Evaluation Working Group at Georgetown University, contributor (2015) — The Evaluation Roadmap for Optimizing Pre-K Programs by Anna D. Johnson, Deborah A. Phillips, and Owen Schochet (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2018), WISE Indiana (Wellbeing Informed by Science and Evidence in Indiana), partnership of the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, expert reviewer of relevant and emerging literature (2020–2021)
MEDIA
Associated Press, Bloomberg, Chalkbeat, CNBC, The Deseret News, Early Learning Nation, Education Week, TIME, CNN.com, Hechinger Report, Huffington Post, KPFT (90.1) Houston, National Public Radio, Newsweek, The New York Times, New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting Radio, PBS Rewire, TheDailyBeast.com, U.S. News, The Wall Street Journal Real Time Economics blog, The Washington Post, Yahoo!Finance