Staff Biography


	Professor Jane WALDFOGEL Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, Columbia University School of Social Work, and Visiting Professor, CASE
	Email: jw205@columbia.edu STICERD , External Curriculum Vitae Personal WebSite Columbia School of Social Work
Research Interests: 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 Current Research Projects: 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 Selected Publications: What Children Need.Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2006) (with K Magnuson, eds) Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap.New York: Russell Sage Foundation (2008) (with W-J Han, C Ruhm and E Washbrook) The Timing of Mothers' Employment after Childbirth.Monthly Labor Review, 131(6): 15-27 (2008) (with W-J Han and C Ruhm) Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking.Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(1): 29-54 (2009) (with Q Gao and N Kaushal) How have Expansions in the EITC affected Family Expenditures?In JP Ziliak (ed), Welfare Reform and Its Long-Term Consequences for America's Poor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2009) Differential Response.In K Dodge and DL Coleman (eds), Preventing Child Maltreatment. New York: Guilford Press (2009) The Role of Family Policies in Anti-Poverty Policy.In M Cancian and S Danziger (eds), Changing Poverty. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press (in press) STICERD/CASE Publications: Equal access to high quality early education and care? Evidence from England and lessons from other countries Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, Jane Waldfogel, March 2013 Paper No' CASEbrief 32: Full paper A question of quality: Do children from disadvantaged backgrounds receive lower quality early years education and care in England? Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart, Jane Waldfogel, March 2013 Paper No' CASE/171: Read Abstract \| Full paper Welfare Reforms and Child Well-Being in the US and UK Jane Waldfogel, July 2007 Paper No' CASE/126: Read Abstract \| Full paper Expenditure Patterns Post-Welfare Reform in the UK: Are low-income families starting to catch up? Paul Gregg, Jane Waldfogel, Elizabeth Washbrook, May 2005 Paper No' CASE 099: Read Abstract \| Full paper Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years Jane Waldfogel, November 2004 Paper No' CASE 088: Read Abstract \| Full paper The Employment of Married Mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000 Paul Gregg, Maria Gutierrez-Domenech, Jane Waldfogel, December 2003 Paper No' CEPDP0596: Read Abstract \| Full paper Welfare Reform and Lone Mothers' Employment in the US Sheldon Danziger, Sandra K. Danziger, Kristin Seefeldt, Jane Waldfogel, June 2001 Paper No' CASE 047: Read Abstract \| Full paper Investing in Children: What do we know? What should we do? Sheldon Danziger, Jane Waldfogel, February 2000 Paper No' CASE 034: Read Abstract \| Full paper The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialised Countries Susan Harkness, Jane Waldfogel, December 1999 Paper No' CASE 030: Read Abstract \| Full paper Early Childhood Interventions and Outcomes (summarised in CASEreport 5, 'Persistent Poverty and Lifetime Inequality') Jane Waldfogel, February 1999 Paper No' CASE 021: Read Abstract \| Full paper Maternity Leave Policies and Women's Employment after Childbirth: Evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan Masahiro Abe, Yoshio Higuchi, Jane Waldfogel, January 1998 Paper No' CASE 003: Read Abstract \| Full paper What do we expect Lone Mothers to do? Competing agendas for welfare reform in the United States Jane Waldfogel, October 1996 Paper No' WSP 124: 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, Jane Waldfogel, July 1996 Paper No' WSP 122: The Decline of the Male Breadwinner: Changing Shares of Husbands' and Wives' Earnings in Family Income Stephen Machin, Jane Waldfogel, Paper No' WSP 103: 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, Paper No' WSP 093: Evaluating the Pin Money Hypothesis: The relationship between women's labour market activity, family income and poverty in Britain Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin, Jane Waldfogel, Paper No' WSP 108: