Lloyd D. Grieger Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Postdoctoral Affiliate, CIQLE Ph.D., University of Michigan   lloyd.grieger@yale.edu C.V.

Lloyd Grieger is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and postdoctoral affiliate of the Center for Research on Inequality and the Life Course (CIQLE) at Yale University. A social demographer, he received his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy in August 2010 from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He also received an MA (statistics) and an MPP (social policy analysis) from the University of Michigan.

His research interests include poverty and social policy, the transition to adulthood, family and relationship formation in the United States and South Africa, and quantitative research methods using longitudinal panel data. He has held research positions at the U.S. Department of State (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor), the United Nations (Demographic and Social Statistics Bureau), the Urban Institute, the (U.S.) National Poverty Center, and the Southern African Labor and Development Research Unit.

His current projects include an examination of the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on long-term child poverty trends in the United States, the role of fathers in the sexual decision making of South African youngsters, and the effects of neighborhood and school characteristics on adolescent romantic relationship formation.

Selected publications:

Grieger, Lloyd D and Sheldon Danaiger. 2011. “Who Receives Food Stamps During Adulthood? Analyzing Repeatable Events with Incomplete Event Histories.” Demography (forthcoming).

Grieger, Lloyd D, Sheldon Danziger, and Robert Schoeni. 2009. “Accurately Measuring the Trend in Poverty in the United States Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement 34(2-3): 105-117.

Under Review:
Grieger, Lloyd D and Jessica Wyse. 2010. “From Welfare to Workfare: Have Increases in the Generosity of the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduced Long-term Poverty Among Children in the United States?” Social Science Research [invited for revise and resubmit].

In Progress:

Grieger, Lloyd, Sheldon Danziger, and Peter Gottschalk. “Variation in the Hazard of Experiencing Poverty and its Severity During Adulthood.”

Grieger, Lloyd, Yasamin Kusunoki, and David Harding. “The Social Context of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: School and Neighborhood Influences on Adolescent Relationship Formation.”

Grieger, Lloyd. “The Influence of Father Absence and Paternal Orphanhood on Children’s Sexual Debut: Evidence from an Urban, Highly Stratified, Developing Context.”

Harding, David, Yasamin Kusunoki, and Lloyd Grieger. “Neighborhood Context and Romantic Relationships: Competing Models of Adolescent Relationships in Disadvantaged Communities.”