Bio:

Jane Waldfogel is a professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work and a visiting professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics.  During the 2008-09 academic year, she was the Marion Cabot Putnam Memorial Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University where she was writing a book about Britain’s war on poverty. Waldfogel received her Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being.  Her books include Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008), What Children Need (Harvard University Press, 2006), Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000), and The Future of Child Protection: How to Break the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect (Harvard University Press, 1998).Her current research includes studies related to work-family policies, poverty, social mobility, and income-related gaps in school readiness.


Research Interests:

• The impact of public policies on child and family well-being
  
• Poverty, inequality, and social mobility

Current Grants & Projects:

• A Cross-Country Study of the Effect of Parental Resources and Public Policies on Inequality in Early Child Outcomes
  
• Improving the Measurement of Poverty
  
• Income-Related Gaps in School Readiness
  
• A Family-Based Economic Empowerment Model for Orphaned Children in Uganda
  
• Work-Family Policies and Child and Family Well-Being
  
• Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing
  
  

Last updated July 27, 2009 .