Jane Waldfogel, CPRC Co-Director

Jane Waldfogel is the Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Children’s and Youth Problems at Columbia University School of Social Work and co-director of the Columbia Population Research Center. She is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. The author/editor of five books and more than 200 articles and book chapters, Waldfogel has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being. Her current research includes studies of work-family policies including paid family and medical leave, poverty and social policy, and inequalities in child development and health across countries. She received her Ph.D. in public policy at Harvard University.