 People http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~cpaxson Jane Waldfogel is Associate Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work, and research associate at the Center for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on family leave and child care, and also welfare, child welfare, and child support. She has also studied child abuse and neglect and women's employment and earnings. Waldfogel is currently the principal investigator on the "Family Leave Policies and Parental Care for Children" project, as well as the principal investigator of the "Parental Leave, Child Care, and Child Well-Being" project. Ph.D. Harvard University. http://www.jcpr.org/bios/waldfogel.html Neal B. Guterman is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the Columbia University School of Social Work. His research interests focus on children and their exposure to violence, as well as the development of clinical services. Dr. Guterman's present research examines the design, development, and evaluation of home visitation service models to prevent child maltreatment, and examines the role of clinical services in identifying and addressing children's exposure to community violence. He is also working on a study aimed at developing the first cross-culturally validated assessment instrument to measure community violence exposure among children and adolescents, drawing from Israeli Jewish, Israeli Arab, Palestinian Arab, and U. S. urban school children and adolescents. Ph.D. University of Michigan. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/guterman.html Jeanne Brooks-Gunn is a Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Child Development and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the first director of the Center for Children and Families which was founded in 1992, at Teachers College. Dr. Brooks-Gunn is also a visiting scholar at the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing at Princeton University, and a Senior Research Affiliate for the Joint Center for Poverty Research at Northwestern University/University of Chicago. Dr. Brooks-Gunn’s specialty is policy-oriented research focusing on family and community influences upon the development of children, youth and families. Her research centers around designing and evaluating interventions aimed at enhancing the wellbeing of children living in poverty and associated conditions. Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania. |