Jane Waldfogel
CASE Visiting Professor and Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work
Biography
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