Chris M. Herbst is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs and a Faculty Affiliate in the School of Social Work and the Center for Population Dynamics at Arizona State University. He received a Ph.D. in Public Policy in 2007 from the University of Maryland (College Park) School of Public Policy. His dissertation on U.S. child care subsidy policy and welfare reform received the 2006-2007 Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM). In 2007, he received a Fulbright Fellowship to study the Danish welfare and labor market systems at Aalborg University in Denmark.

Chris' research focuses primarily on understanding the impact of child care and welfare policies on the well-being of children and parents. His research projects have examined the impact of the U.S. child care subsidy system on children's cognitive and behavioral development as well as maternal health and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Another stream of research assesses the effect of recent reforms to tax and transfer policies on single mothers' subjective well-being, as measured by survey questions on happiness and life satisfaction. Chris' work has been published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, and Journal of Urban Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2012.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11741
Chris M. Herbst, Kevin C. Desouza, Saud Alashri, Srinivasa Srivatsav Kandala, Mayank Khullar, Vikash Bajaj
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7039
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 105, 86–105
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6025
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5102
published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (1), 94 - 116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4255
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3836
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (4), 618-638
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