Robert Goerge
Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Robert Goerge is a Chapin Hall Senior Research Fellow with more than 25 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. Goerge leads Chapin Hall’s Integrated Database on Child and Family Programs in Illinois, which links the administrative data on social service receipt, education, criminal and juvenile justice, employment, healthcare, and early childhood programs to provide a comprehensive picture of child and family use of publicly provided or publicly financed service programs. His work provides high-quality information to policymakers to improve the programs serving children and their families. At Chapin Hall, he is Principal Investigator (PI) for the Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center, funded by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; PI of the Linking Federal Data to Local Data project, which is a collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau; and PI of the National Survey for Early Care and Education. He is also cochair and cofounder of the International Society for Child Indicators.
In addition to his Chapin Hall work, Goerge is a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute, where he was co-PI on a NSF-funded grant entitled, “An Urban Sciences Research Coordination Network for Data-Driven Urban Design and Analysis.” He is the founder of the Master’s Degree on Computational Analysis and Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He has been a Member of the Panel on Data and Methods for Measuring the Effects of Changes in Social Welfare Programs and the Panel on Modernizing Crime Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Technical Work Group member of the National Study of Child and Adolescent Well-Being.
Goerge 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.