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Jane Waldfogel is a professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work. She is also a research associate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics, where she visited during the 2003-2004 academic year. Waldfogel has written extensively on the impact of public policies on child and family well-being. Her current research includes studies of family leave, inequality in early childhood care and education, and child abuse and neglect. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for the National Evaluation of Sure Start (in the UK ) and was a member of the National Academy of Science's Committee on Family and Work Policies (in the US ). Waldfogel received her Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University . She is the author of The Future of Child Protection: How to Break the Cycle of Abuse and Neglect (Harvard University Press, 1998) and co-editor (with Sheldon Danziger) of Securing the Future: Investing in Children from Birth to Adulthood (Russell Sage Foundation, 2000). Her work has also been published in leading academic journals including the American Economic Review, American Educational Research Journal, American Sociological Review, Child Development, Demography, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, and Journal of Population Economics.
Diversity and the Demographic Dividend: Achieving Educational Equity in an Aging White Society