Maureen Pirog is an American scholar and policy analyst. A leading authority in family assistance, child support and poverty in the United States, she is the Rudy Professor of Policy Analysis at

Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs The O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs is one of the undergraduate and graduate schools of Indiana University, and is the largest public policy and environmental studies school of its kind in the United States. Founded in 1972, as ...

Education and career

Pirog received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Economics from Boston College in 1975. In 1981, she earned a PhD in Public Policy Analysis from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

. Pirog joined the

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universi ...

School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) as an Assistant Professor in 1983, being successively promoted to Associate Professor (1989), Professor (1997) and the distinguished chair of Rudy Professor in 2004. Moreover, she holds visiting positions at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

Evans School of Public Affairs, the

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and the

Higher School of Economics HSE University (russian: link=no, «Высшая школа экономики», ВШЭ), officially the National Research University Higher School of Economics (russian: link=no, Национальный исследовательский ун ...

(

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). During her career, Pirog has become a renowned expert in evaluation of social policies and programs, particularly in the areas of family and child support, poverty fight and education. Indeed, she is the founder director of the Indiana University Institute for Family and Social Responsibility. Between 2004 and 2014, Pirog was the Editor-in-Chief of the ''

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management The ''Journal of Policy Analysis and Management'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering issues and practices in policy analysis and public management. It was established in 1981 and contains books reviews and a department devoted t ...

'' and led the journal's ''JPAM Classics''.

Publications

Pirog is the author or editor of the following books, besides more than four dozens of academic journal articles. * ''Violence in Dating Relationships: Emerging Social Issues'' (1989, co-editor with Jan Stets) * ''Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy'' (2008, co-editor with David Weimer) * ''Social Experimentation, Program Evaluation and Public Policy'' (2008, editor) * ''Poverty, Welfare and Public Policy'' (2010, co-editor with Douglas Besharov and Douglas Call) * ''Public Management'' (2011, co-editor with Lawrence Lynn) * ''Public Policy and Mental Health: Avenues for Prevention'' (2012, co-authored with Emily Good)

References

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