Jane Waldfogel CASE, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE, London School of Economics

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

Latest

CASE Welfare Policy and Analysis Seminars

Improving the measurement of poverty in the US

07 December 2016

Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

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

01 August 2015

Susan Harkness, Stephen Machin and Jane Waldfogel

CASEpapers

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

01 March 2013

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...

CASEbriefs

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

01 March 2013

Ludovica Gambaro, Kitty Stewart and Jane Waldfogel

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

CASE Special Event: UK launch of Jane Waldfogel's new book, 'Britain's War on Poverty'

23 June 2010

Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)

CASEpapers

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

01 July 2007

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...

CASEpapers

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

01 May 2005

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...

CASEpapers

Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years

01 November 2004

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...

CASE Social Exclusion Seminars

The Early Years: Getting it Right?

12 May 2004

Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University)

CEP discussion papers

The Employment of Married Mothers in Great Britain: 1974-2000

01 December 2003

Paul Gregg, Maria Gutierrez-Domenech and Jane Waldfogel

This paper analyses the increase in mothers¿ employment in Britain over the period 1974¿2000. The approach consists of isolating those birth cohorts whose mothers experienced significant increases in employment and relat... Read more...

CASEpapers

Welfare Reform and Lone Mothers' Employment in the US

01 June 2001

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...

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

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

01 October 1996

Jane Waldfogel

Welfare State Programme Discussion Papers

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

01 July 1996

Heather Joshi, Pierella Paci and Jane Waldfogel

Selected Work:

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)