Robert Goerge
Senior Research Fellow
Robert Goerge is a Chapin Hall Senior Research Fellow with more than 35 years’ experience in research focused on improving the available data and information on children and families, particularly those who require specialized services related to maltreatment, disability, poverty, or violence. Dr. Goerge focuses on families who participate in multiple child and family programs, including child welfare, TANF, and Medicaid. He received recognition for conducting pioneering analyses of child welfare administrative data in the 1980s and 1990s, being among the first to use record-linkage to link child welfare program participant data to other social program administrative data. He has also received ACF funding for understanding child care use and parental employment in multiple states. He evaluated the impact of welfare reform on education, juvenile justice, human services, and health care. He is currently PI of an OPRE-funded Child Care Policy Research Partnership project and Child Care Development Block Grant evaluation award. He was recently awarded a grant from the Institute for Educational Sciences to conduct an RCT of a college success program. He was PI of the National Survey of Early Care and Education.
Goerge is currently a member of the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at both the Harris School of Public Policy and NORC at the University of Chicago. He is cofounder of the Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Goerge cofounded the International Society of Child Indicators.
He received his Master of Arts and PhD in Social Policy from the University of Chicago.
Master of Arts in Social Policy, University of Chicago
PhD in Social Policy, University of Chicago
Allard, S. W., Wiegand, E. R., Schlecht, C., Datta, A. R., Goerge, R. M., & Weigensberg, E. (2018). State agencies’ use of administrative data for improved practices: Needs, challenges, and opportunities. Public Administration Review, 78(2), 240-250.
Goerge, R. M. (2018). Barriers to accessing state data and approaches to addressing them. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 675(1), 122-137.
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