Dr. Robert M. Goerge
Robert Goerge is a Chapin Hall Senior Research Fellow with more than 35 years of 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 participating in multiple child and family programs, including child welfare, TANF, and Medicaid. He received recognition for conducting pioneering child welfare administrative data analyses in the 1980s and 1990s. He was 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 childcare 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 the 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 the PI of the National Survey of Early Care and Education.
Goerge is a Committee on National Statistics member at the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and NORC at the University of Chicago. He co-founded the Master of Science in Computational Analysis & Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Goerge co-founded the International Society of Child Indicators.
