Gabrielle Pepin is an applied microeconomist specializing in public and labor economics. Her work focuses on parental labor supply and tax and expenditure programs targeted at families with children, including child care subsidies and welfare.

In her research, Pepin studies effects of the Child and Dependent Care Credit on paid child care participation and labor market outcomes, as well as implications of its design on eligibility and child care and labor supply incentives. In other work, she examines how children generate gender gaps in labor market outcomes via occupational sorting. She also studies effects of time limits and interventions intended to increase application completion within the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

Pepin won the 2022 Georgescu-Roegen Prize in Economics, awarded by the Southern Economic Association, for the best academic article published in Southern Economic Journal. The prize recognizes her for the paper “The Effects of Welfare Time Limits on Access to Financial Resources: Evidence From the 2010s.”