- Phone:
- (812) 855-0732
- Email:
- pirog@indiana.edu
- Room Number:
- 410C
- Areas of Interest:
- Poverty and income maintenance with emphasis on child support enforcement ,
- Welfare reform ,
- Adolescent parenting ,
- Methods of policy evaluation
Education
- Ph.D., Public Policy Analysis, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
- M.A., Economics, Boston College, 1975
- B.A., (Magna Cum Laude), Economics, Boston College, 1975
Courses
- Advanced Methods in Program Evaluation
- Management Science
- Poverty and Public Policy
- Program Evaluation
- Research Methods
Biography
Rudy Professor Emeritus Maureen A. Pirog, a O'Neill faculty member since 1983, specializes in social policy and is a national expert on child support. Her research includes child support enforcement, income maintenance and poverty, adolescent parenting, education, policy analysis, and methods of program evaluation and social experimentation. State and U.S. Congressional committees refer to her studies of fairness and equity in the determination of amounts of child support awards. Pirog has been invited by the U.S. General Accounting Office to help shape research agenda in this area. She speaks at conferences around the world organized by academic organizations, state social services agencies, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Pirog is founder and co-director of the Institute for Family and Social Responsibility which provides research expertise and technical assistance to state and national social service organizations and spans all eight Indiana University campuses. Pirog is an affiliated faculty member of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington and holds an honorary professorship at the State University Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She was recently appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Professor (2015-2020) in the Department of Governance at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
For 10 years, Pirog served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the top ranked policy analysis journal. She is series editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Classics, as well as a member of the editorial board of three other journals. Pirog is also an article, book, and grant reviewer for over 20 journals and grant giving agencies.
Highlights
- Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (Inducted 2018)
- Lifetime Achievement Award for Development the Field of Policy Analysis, Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM)Editor-in-Chief (10 years: 2004-2014), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
- Distinguished Visiting Professor (2015-2020), Department of Public Governance, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Honorary Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
- 1995 O'Neill Graduate Teaching Award
In the News
- "Researchers document changes in teenage parenthood" - IU Newsroom, September 19, 2017
- "How to Get Published"- Inside Higher Ed, June 27, 2014
- "Professor Kenneth Couch Takes Editor Reins at JPAM" - Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management-Public Policy News, July 1, 2014
Selected Works
- “The changing face of teenage parenthood in the United States: Evidence from NLSY79 and NLSY97,” (with H. Jung, D. Lee), Child & Youth Care Forum, (August 2017)
- “Applying Behavioral Insights in Policy Analysis: Recent Trends in the United States,” (with Maithreyi Gopalan), Policy Studies Journal, 45 (S1): S82-S114 (May 2017)
- “Sample Conditions Under Which Bias in IV Estimates Can Be Signed,” (with Haeil Jung), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, (April 2017)
- "Do public pensions crowd out private transfers to the elderly?: evidence from South Korea," (with H. Jung) Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 1-23 (13 January 2015)
- "What works best and when: Accounting for multiple sources of pure selection bias in program evaluations," (with H. Jung). Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(3): 752-777 (2014)
- "Data will drive innovation in public policy and management research in the next decade,"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(2): 537-543 (2014)
- "Internal versus external validity: Where are policy analysts going?"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33(2): 548-550 (2014)
- "Special symposium on qualitative and mixed methods," (with K. Edin), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 33 (2): 345-349 (2014)
- "Empirical innovations in policy analysis," (with G. Blume and T. Scott), Policy Studies Journal, 42 (S1): S33-S50 (2014)
- "Social policy: What have we Learned?" (with T. Guzman and K. Seefeldt), Policy Studies Journal, 41(S1): S53-S70 (2013). Reprinted in the PSJ Yearbook.
- Public Policy and Mental Health, (with E. Good). London: Sage Publications (2012)