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Virginia Knox
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Director
Family Well-Being and Child Development Policy Area
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Knox brings 25 years of experience to the study and evaluation of social programs, with special expertise in how supports for low-income parents — including child support, financial incentives, and services to strengthen family relationships — affect families and children. She is currently co-project director of the national evaluation of the federal Maternal, Infant, and Child Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program. She previously directed the Supporting Healthy Marriage project, a federally funded evaluation of interventions aimed at improving child well-being by strengthening the relationships of married couples, and the Next Generation project, a collaborative multidisciplinary initiative to study welfare reform programs’ impacts on the well-being of children and families. As project director and co-principal investigator for the evaluations of the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, she conducted the implementation and cost-benefit analyses for both studies. 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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MDRC Publications
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