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Selfie with the book!

The bomb cyclone conspired against me getting to NYC today to celebrate @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social’s book launch, but the snow didn’t disrupt the on-time delivery of my copy of The Science of Second Chances! So excited and proud of my friend 🥂

Another 🆕 paper to spread the word about, ICYMI in last week's bumper crop of @nber.org working papers.

It's @durlauf.bsky.social recommended and a paper I am really proud to have out in the public conversation about Head Start effectiveness.

www.nber.org/papers/w34812

The economic cost of California’s broken child care market

The market for child care is broken... can states fix it?

Our newest research highlight on work by @chloergibbs.bsky.social and colleagues @siepr.bsky.social focuses on California and how policy can make the market work better for everyone.

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The golden age

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Economics of Health Program Meeting, Spring 2026

The Spring 2026 Economics of Health NBER Program Meeting starts today, and it can be streamed on YouTube at the link below

#EconSky: Registration for "The Craft of Publishing in Economics" is now open! March 9, 12-1:30 EDT.

Three fantastic editor will give suggestions for how to navigate the publication process w/ plenty of time for Q&A.

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A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families (Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

Joint work with Riley Wilson (BYU) & Jocelyn Wikle (BYU)

Find the research highlight here 🔗: drive.google.com/file/d/1BmSP...

And the paper here 🔗: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Screenshot of research highlight "Full-day Kindergarten Relaxes Binding Time Constraints for Families"

More 🆕 research week on the socials!

Thrilled to see Strengthening Families Research Initiative's inaugural newsletter, featuring a research highlight on, "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families," forthcoming at AEJ: Policy.

🔗: t.e2ma.net/webview/re67...

And, finally we show that single moms of young children, living in areas exposed to the full-day expansions, worked more and earned more. We focus on single mothers because they are more likely to be Head Start-eligible and are often most responsive to changes in childcare availability.

We document increased full-day Head Start enrollment in exposed areas, corresponding to approximately 100,000 newly full-day slots (while overall enrollment in Head Start is remaining relatively flat in this time period).

This geographic matching allows us to identify single mothers of young children in areas served by centers operated by eligible grantees. Eligible grantees were those that were operating less than 40 percent of their slots as full-day, full-year slots.

One challenge with Head Start program records is that they are collected at the grantee level, where eligibility for duration expansions funding was determined, but grantees can operate multiple centers in different geographic locations. We geocode center locations and match centers to grantees.

White House press release with picture of Barack Obama in a Head Start classroom "More is Better: Expanding Learning Time in Head Start Programs"

2016 marked substantial expansions to Head Start programming, with a focus on expanding the availability of full-day slots. We use this policy change to look at the impact on mothers' employment, identifying places that were exposed to the expansions and comparing to mothers in places that were not.

More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment by Chloe Gibbs, Esra Kose, and Maria Rosales-Rueda Abstract: Women’s employment remains highly sensitive to childcare constraints, making childcare availability a critical lever for supporting mothers’ labor force attachment. We study the effects of expanded full-day programming in Head Start, using the 2016 federal funding initiative that targeted grantees with low full-day enrollment. Linking administrative program data, geo-coded center locations, and household data on employment, we estimate a difference-in-differences design by comparing mothers of young children in treated and untreated areas. The policy increased full-day enrollment by 19 percent and raised single mothers’ employment (1.9%), hours (2.5%), and earnings (6.5%). Results show that extending program duration meaningfully improves maternal labor market outcomes.

🚨🚨 It's new research week for me on the socials! 🚨🚨

First up, just released today as an NBER working paper:

"More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment" with fantastic coauthors Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda

www.nber.org/papers/w34831

📢 Predoc Opportunity

I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy.

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Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.

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And I wouldn’t change anything about how I did things because at the end of the day, I have to look myself in the mirror. But I do feel an obligation to at least give the advice of “head down on the research” to the people I know will get pulled in all the directions.

This is my thread for another day “on the toxicity of Just Say No culture”

Just speaking from the experience of doing all the things I cared very much about, and having some pretty good professional wins along the way, but there are some who will use it against you. And the boys aren’t doin’ all that…

After tenure, please!!! This is one of the ways the profession continues to keep women out of the highest levels. Trust me, I know it’s hard, but we need you all in the positions of power, @melissadgentry.bsky.social and @itsafronomics.blacksky.app. And then all the public goods!

If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.

The. Jig. Is. Up.

Head is close to actually exploding over here.

Imagine calling a student coming to office hours an advance.

I simply cannot with this dude, and all the other ones like him.

"(This is how men behave.)" 🤢

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Registration form with required question “Do you need assistance finding child care in Lincoln during the conference?”

I organize an annual conference and am also working on a spring convening, and am adding this to my running list.

👏👏 to the Nebraska Labor Summit organizers! @btimpe.bsky.social @rebecca-jack.bsky.social @dtannenbaum.bsky.social

screenshot of the show notes; picture of children in child care center "Unaffordable child care costs and high costs of living go hand-in-hand" California families often see their child care costs rival their rent or mortgage payments, while providers struggle to stay open and retain staff. For more, KCBS News Anchor Steve Scott spoke with Dr. Chloe Gibbs, Policy Fellow with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Getty Images / Michael M. Santiago / Staff

Joined KCBS Radio this morning to talk about the child care market in California -- why it doesn't work well for families or the child care workforce and providers, and how public investment can shore up the supply of high-quality care to better meet families' needs:

www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

screenshot of the show notes; picture of children in child care center "Unaffordable child care costs and high costs of living go hand-in-hand" California families often see their child care costs rival their rent or mortgage payments, while providers struggle to stay open and retain staff. For more, KCBS News Anchor Steve Scott spoke with Dr. Chloe Gibbs, Policy Fellow with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Getty Images / Michael M. Santiago / Staff

Joined KCBS Radio this morning to talk about the child care market in California -- why it doesn't work well for families or the child care workforce and providers, and how public investment can shore up the supply of high-quality care to better meet families' needs:

www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

Check out some great new work co-authored by our own @chloergibbs.bsky.social!