Jiwan Lee (she/her)

Lee is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Brown University's Population Studies and Training Center. Her research focuses on how social policies shape the economic and social well-being of families and children.

She earned a Ph.D. in Social Welfare Policy from Columbia University, where her dissertation examined the effects of state Paid Family Leave policies on maternal employment and the economic security of families with newborns. She is also affiliated with the Columbia Center on Poverty and Social Policy, where she has contributed to research on the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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Email: jiwan_lee@brown.edu

Selected Publications

Lee, J., Michelmore, K., Pilkauskas, N., & Wimer, C. (2024). Effects of the Expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for Childless Young Adults on Material Wellbeing (No. w32571). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Cha, E., Lee, J., & Tao, S. (2023). Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit and Its Expiration on Adult Psychological Well-being. Social Science & Medicine, 116101.
Schild, J., Collyer, S. M., Garner, T., Kaushal, N., Lee, J., Waldfogel, J., & Wimer, C. T. (2023). Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Household Spending: Estimates Based on US Consumer Expenditure Survey Data (No. w31412). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Choi, H., & Lee, J. (2023). A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Impact of Child Tax Credit/Child Allowance in the United States and South Korea. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.

Selected Research Briefs

Lee, J. Acevedo-Garcia, D., Collyer, S., Joshi, P., Kaushal, N., Walters, A. N., & Wimer, C. (2024). The Role of Government Transfers in the Child Poverty Gap by Race and Ethnicity: A Focus on Black, Latino, and White Children. Poverty and Social Policy Brief, vol. 8, no. 2. Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University and Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, Brandeis University.
Lee, J., Collyer, S., Curran, M., Harris, D., & Wimer, C. (2023). Counting children fully in Economic Impact Payments and other cash assistance policies matters for poverty reduction. Poverty and Social Policy Brief, vol. 7, no. 5. Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University.
Wimer, C, Collyer, S., Harris, D., & Lee, J. (2022). The 2021 Child Tax Credit expansion: child poverty reduction and the children formerly left behind. Poverty and Social Policy Brief, vol. 6 no. 8. Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University.