Jeffrey Hayes, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate

Areas of expertise: Education, Labor market behavior, Job quality, Inequality & Poverty

Jeff joined IWPR in September 2009 and works on projects examining women’s economic security over the life course using national survey data. For the past five years he worked at the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy and the Harvard Project on Global Working Families analyzing child and family well-being with a focus on how socioeconomic status and labor conditions affect children’s health and development around the world. Before that he taught research methods and managed the Social Science Data Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds Masters and PhD degrees in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BA in Sociology and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.