Jane Waldfogel

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 Visiting Professor at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. She received her Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1994. Waldfogel has written extensively on the impact of public policies on poverty, inequality, and child and family well-being. She is the author of numerous articles and is also the author of several books, including most recently Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America’s Future (Russell Sage, 2025) and Britain’s War on Poverty (Russell Sage, 2010).