Chloe Gibbs

Chloe Gibbs is a policy fellow at SIEPR and senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. Since 2015, she has been on the faculty at Notre Dame where she is a research affiliate of the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities, and director of the Early Childhood Policy Lab. She is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2022-2023, she served at the White House with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, handling the child and family policy portfolio. In that capacity, she conducted analyses on child care access and affordability, work-family policies, and women’s employment. Her research focuses on how public investments in education, particularly in early life, translate into outcomes for children, their families, communities, and education systems.

Dr. Gibbs holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, U.S. Department of Labor, and Smith Richardson Foundation and cited in the Economic Report of the President and by National Public Radio, Newsweek, TIME, U.S. News, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.