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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
90
Citations
36640
World Ranking
196
National Ranking
95

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Overview

Jane Waldfogel is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and specializes in social sciences with a strong emphasis on education, sociology and political science, demography, gender studies, and clinical psychology. Their research focuses on topics such as gender, labor, and family dynamics; early childhood education and development; retirement, disability, and employment; work-family balance challenges; child abuse and trauma; family dynamics and relationships; and school choice and performance.

The scientist has contributed to a range of academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Children and Youth Services Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Social Service Review
  • Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Recent papers authored by Waldfogel or featuring their contribution include:

  • "Inequities in Child Protective Services Contact Between Black and White Children" (2022, Child Maltreatment)
  • "California's paid family leave law improves maternal psychological health" (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • "The Impacts of Paid Family and Medical Leave on Worker Health, Family Well-Being, and Employer Outcomes" (2022, Annual Review of Public Health)
  • "Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Young Children's Well-Being at School" (2020, Child Development)
  • "Estimating Monthly Poverty Rates in the United States" (2022, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management)

They have collaborated frequently with several scholars, including:

  • Christopher Wimer
  • Valentina Perinetti Casoni
  • Elizabeth Washbrook
  • Sarah Jiyoon Kwon
  • Ann P. Bartel

Waldfogel's contributions also extend to book publications, such as the title Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America's Future, set to be published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2025.

In recognition of their academic contributions, Waldfogel was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Our future: a Lancet commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

    George C Patton;George C Patton;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;Susan M Sawyer;John S Santelli;David A Ross;David A Ross

  • Understanding the "Family Gap" in Pay for Women with Children

    Jane Waldfogel

  • The effect of children on women's wages

    Jane Waldfogel

  • Inequality in Preschool Education and School Readiness

    Katherine A. Magnuson;Marcia K. Meyers;Christopher J. Ruhm;Jane Waldfogel

  • Global burden of diseases, injuries, and risk factors for young people's health during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013.

    Ali H. Mokdad;Mohammad H ossein Forouzanfar;Farah Daoud;Arwa A. Mokdad

  • Does Prekindergarten Improve School Preparation and Performance

    Katherine A Magnuson;Christopher J Ruhm;Jane Waldfogel

  • Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Outcomes in the First Three Years of Life: The NICHD Study of Early Child Care.

    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn;Wen Jui Han;Jane Waldfogel

  • The Family Gap for Young Women in the United States and Britain: Can Maternity Leave Make a Difference?

    Jane Waldfogel

  • Early childhood care and education: effects on ethnic and racial gaps in school readiness.

    Katherine A. Magnuson;Jane Waldfogel

  • Maternity leave, early maternal employment and child health and development in the US*

    Lawrence M. Berger;Jennifer Hill;Jane Waldfogel

  • Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing

    Jane Waldfogel;Terry-Ann Craigie;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes.

    Maya Rossin-Slater;Christopher J. Ruhm;Jane Waldfogel

  • The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Child Cognitive Development

    Jane Waldfogel;Wen Jui Han;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • The prevalence of confirmed maltreatment among US children, 2004 to 2011.

    Christopher Wildeman;Natalia Emanuel;John M. Leventhal;Emily Putnam-Hornstein

  • What Children Need

    Jane Waldfogel

  • The Effects of Early Maternal Employment on Later Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes.

    Wen-Jui Han;Jane Waldfogel;Jeanne Brooks-Gunn

  • The Persistence of Preschool Effects: Do Subsequent Classroom Experiences Matter

    Katherine A. Magnuson;Christopher Ruhm;Jane Waldfogel

  • The future of child protection : how to break the cycle of abuse and neglect

    Jane Waldfogel

  • The family gap in pay:evidence from seven industrialized countries

    Susan Harkness;Jane Waldfogel

  • Parental leave policies and parents' employment and leave-taking.

    Wen-Jui Han;Christopher J. Ruhm;Jane Waldfogel

  • MATERNITY LEAVE, EARLY MATERNAL E MPLOYMENT AND CHILD H EALTH A ND DEVELOPMENT IN T HE U S*

    Lawrence M. Berger;Jennifer Hill;Jane Waldfogel

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn Columbia University
Wen Jui Han
Wen Jui Han New York University
Irwin Garfinkel
Irwin Garfinkel Columbia University
Ann P. Bartel
Ann P. Bartel Columbia University
Lawrence M. Berger
Lawrence M. Berger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Matthew Neidell
Matthew Neidell Columbia University
Katherine Magnuson
Katherine Magnuson University of Wisconsin–Madison
Torsten B. Neilands
Torsten B. Neilands University of California, San Francisco
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Sean F. Reardon
Sean F. Reardon Stanford University

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