Biography

Gillian joined CASE as a Senior Visiting Fellow in July 2025. She has a PhD in Economics and an MPA from Princeton University and has previously worked at the IMF, World Bank, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Frontier Economics. Gillian’s research has focused on analysing and evaluating policy relating to early years, childcare, women’s employment and poverty, delivering academic articles as well as a wide range of policy-related reports for DWP, DfE and non-governmental organisations. She has also served as a Specialist Advisor to the House of Lords Committee on Affordable Childcare.

Gillian Paull's current research interests are:

• Childcare and early years policy
• Women’s employment
• Labour market dynamics
• Poverty dynamics
• Adult social care

Gillian's latest projects include:

• Lifetime labour market dynamics: extension of work on initial family formation to include later life impacts of other caring responsibilities and health issues such as the menopause
• Heterogeneity in the drivers of labour market activity for working aged women: exploration of the drivers of the “inverse U pattern” of inactivity with household income
• Investigation of inequalities in adult social care and the impacts of government support
• Review piece on early years and childcare policy and evidence on the impacts of practice and policy in the UK