Professor Jane Waldfogel FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Sociology
Summary
Jane Waldfogel is Compton Foundation Centennial Professor at Columbia University School of Social Work, and Visiting Professor at London School of Economics. Waldfogel received her Ph.D. in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1994. She has written extensively on the impact of public policies on poverty, inequality, and child and family well-being. Her books include: Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective; Britain's War on Poverty; Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap; What Children Need; Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to College; and The Future of Child Protection. She is also the author of over 100 articles and book chapters. Her current research includes studies of paid parental leave, improving the measurement of poverty, and inequality in school readiness and achievement.
Current post
Compton Foundation Centennial Professor of Social Work, Columbia University School of Social Work; Visiting Professor, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), London School of Economics
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Michèle Lamont FBA
Cultural and comparative sociology, particularly: culture and inequality, racism and stigma, academia and knowledge, social change and collective well-being, and cultural processes and qualitative methods
Professor Anna Vignoles FBA
Economics of education; inequality in education and labour market outcomes, educational efficiency, school and teacher effectiveness, social mobility
