Biography

Jane Waldfogel is the Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems at Columbia University School of Social Work. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. Waldfogel has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being. While on sabbatical at CASE in 2023-24, she wrote a book about universal child benefits (forthcoming from Russell Sage Foundation). Other current research projects include analyses of anti-poverty policies, paid family and medical leave, and young adult wellbeing.

Jane Waldfogel's current research interests are:

• Comparative social policy
• Impact of public policies on child and family well-being; child protective services and child welfare policy
• Education
• Inequality and mobility
• Labour economics
• Gender

Jane's latest projects include:

• Work-family policies and child and family well-being; fragile families and child well-being
• Inequality in school readiness in the US and UK
• Social mobility and the early years in the US, UK, Canada and Australia
• Family-based economic empowerment for orphaned children in Uganda

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