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Evaluating the Pin Money Hypothesis: The relationship between women's labour market activity, family income and poverty in Britain

Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

January

The Decline of the Male Breadwinner: Changing Shares of Husbands' and Wives' Earnings in Family Income

Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

Women Working for Less: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Family Gap. (Version to be published in Oxford Economic Papers, vol.47 (October 1995).

Jane Waldfogel

A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England?

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

This paper examines how the quality of formal early childhood education and care is associated with children’s background. By using different indicators of quality, the research also explored how the relationship varies ...Read more...

1 March 2013

CASEbrief

Equal access to high quality early education and care? Evidence from England and lessons from other countries

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

1 March 2013

CASEpaper

Welfare Reforms and Child Well-Being in the US and UK

Jane Waldfogel

This paper examines the effects of recent welfare reforms in the US and UK on the well-being of children in low-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and d...Read more...

July 2007

CASEpaper

Expenditure Patterns Post-Welfare Reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up?

Paul Gregg, Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook

In this paper we provide evidence on how the UK government’s welfare reforms since 1998 have affected the material well-being of children in low-income families. We examine changes in expenditure patterns and ownership o...Read more...

May 2005

CASEpaper

Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years

Jane Waldfogel

It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because chi...Read more...

November 2004

CASEpaper

Welfare Reform and Lone Mothers' Employment in the US

Jane Waldfogel, Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 represents a dramatic change in the US welfare state. One of its key goals was to move lone mothers, even those with young children, fr...Read more...

June 2001

CASEpaper

Investing in Children: What do we know? What should we do?

Sheldon Danziger and Jane Waldfogel

In 1998, a conference brought together US psychologists, economists, sociologists, demographers, political scientists, social workers, and medical doctors, to review what we know about the processes that affect child dev...Read more...

February 2000

CASEpaper

The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialised Countries

Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel

In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialised countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without c...Read more...

December 1999

CASEpaper

Early Childhood Interventions and Outcomes (summarised in CASEreport 5, 'Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality')

Jane Waldfogel

Recent advances in brain research have provided new evidence that early experience matters and have greatly increased interest in the effects of early childhood interventions on outcomes for children. This paper reviews ...Read more...

February 1999

CASEpaper

Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan

Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi and Masahiro Abe

This paper uses microdata from the United States, Britain and Japan to examine the effects of family leave coverage on women's employment after childbirth. The United States had no national family leave legislation until...Read more...

January 1998

WSP Discussion Paper

What do we expect Lone Mothers to do? Competing agendas for welfare reform in the United States

Jane Waldfogel

October 1996

WSP Discussion Paper

The Wages of Motherhood: Better or Worse? Now published in Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.23, No.5 (September 1999) pp.543-564

Heather Joshi, Pierella Paci and Jane Waldfogel

July 1996