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The SHM evaluation draws on consultants with expertise in the fields of marriage education, sociology, social work, psychology, African-American studies, education, public policy, social ethics, human development, nursing, and economics.
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Dr. Virginia Knox
Policy Area Director, Family Well-Being and Children's Development
MDRC
Virgina Knox brings 20 years’ experience to the study and evaluation of social programs, with special expertise in how supports for low-income workers — particularly child support and financial incentives — affect families and children. She is the Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator of the Supporting Healthy Marriage evaluation. She also oversees the Next Generation project, a multidisciplinary initiative to study welfare reform programs' impacts on the well-being of children and families. She was previously project director and co-principal investigator for the evaluations of the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, and she conducted the implementation and cost-benefit analyses for both. Knox has direct knowledge of welfare systems, having been Special Assistant to the Executive Deputy Commissioner for Income Maintenance in New York City’s Human Resources Administration, where her responsibilities included estimating the cost of welfare reform programs. The author of numerous reports and papers, Knox has a doctorate in public policy from Harvard University.
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