Russel Sage Foundation

RSF author Jane Waldfogel recently launched her book Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America’s Future at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. During the launch, Waldfogel and Megan Curran, the Policy Director at Columbia’s Center on Policy and Social Policy, discussed the history and impacts of child benefits, major policy proposals currently under debate, and recommendations for a policy that would deliver the best outcomes for children and families.

In Child Benefits, Waldfogel details the history and origins of child benefits around the world and comprehensively assesses how child benefits affect family spending, fertility, employment, child poverty, and child wellbeing to address such concerns and to determine the benefits of enacting such a policy in the U.S. permanently.

Watch the webinar in full above.

Read more and purchase a copy of Child Benefits.