Chloe N. East is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Colorado Boulder and an affiliate of the Colorado Population Center.
She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin and the Global Migration Center at UC Davis. She co-leads the Research Working Group within the Children Thrive Action Network.
Chloe studies U.S. policies — including safety net and social insurance programs, as well as immigration policy — and examines how they affect outcomes of both foreign-born and U.S.-born people. Her work has been cited in numerous policy contexts and by major media outlets such as the Nation, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Politico, the Atlantic, and others. Her work has been published in top economics and multidisciplinary journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, and PNAS. She earned a B.S. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis.