Publications

Between-Firm Sorting and Parenthood Wage Gaps in the US Service Sector

Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Wellbeing Survey Research: Strategies from Five Occupational Studies

COVID-19 Employment Shocks and Safety Net Expansion: Health Effects on Displaced Workers

Labor Market Pathways to Job Upgrading in the Service Sector: Evidence from the ‘Great Resignation’

Parental Exposure to Work Schedule Instability and Child Sleep Quality

Early Effects of California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage: Large Wage Increases with No Effects on Hours, Scheduling, or Benefits

Please Wait, Help is on the Way: Self-Checkout, Understaffing, and Customer Incivility in the Service Sector

IKEA Self-Scheduling Intervention: Baseline Report

Compliance and the Complaint Gap: Labor Standards Violations in the California Service Sector

The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector

Racial/ethnic and Gender Inequities in the Sufficiency of Paid Leave During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Service Sector

Introduction to The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19

The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19

Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave

Mitigating the Impacts of Sexual Harassment: Evidence from a National Survey of Retail and Restaurant Workers

Dreams Deferred: Downward Mobility and Making Ends Meet in the Service Sector

Why Are Young Workers Leaving Their Jobs?

Working in the Service Sector in Michigan

Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents’ Developmental Expenditures

Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules? Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements

Schedule Unpredictability and the Use of High-Cost Financial Services: The Case of Service Workers

Paid Sick Leave Mandates Narrow Gender Gaps in Paid Sick Leave Coverage for Low-Wage Workers

The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace COVID-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-being of Frontline Service Sector Workers

Uncertain Time: Precarious Schedules and Job Turnover in the U.S. Service Sector

Parenting without Predictability: Precarious Schedules, Parental Strain, and Work-Life Conflict

Older Workers with Unpredictable Schedules: Implications for Well-being and Job Retention

What’s to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection

Maternal Exposure to Work Schedule Unpredictability and Child Behavior

National Survey of Gig Workers Paints a Picture of Poor Working Conditions, Low Pay

Who Benefited from Expanded Paid Sick Leave Policies for Service Workers? And Who Didn’t?

Paid Leave in New Jersey

Working in the Service Sector in Colorado

Still Unstable: The Persistence of Schedule Uncertainty During the Pandemic

The Company Wage Tracker: Estimates of Wages at 66 Large Service Sector Employers

The Company Wage Tracker

Evaluating the Impacts of the Seattle Secure Scheduling Ordinance

Class Inequality in Total Parental Time With Children: Evidence from Synthetic Couples

Olive Garden’s Expansion Of Paid Sick Leave During COVID-19 Reduced The Share Of Employees Working While Sick

Family Structure and Financial Investments in Children: Commitment and Resources

The Association of Paid Medical and Caregiving Leave with the Economic Security and Wellbeing of Service Sector Workers

Inequalities at Work and the Toll of COVID-19

Taking Count: 2021

Employee Vaccination Rates in the Retail Sector: Successes and Resistance

Unstable, Unpredictable, and Insufficient: Work Scheduling in the Service Sector in New England

Frontline Workers Need Family Paid Leave to Survive

Follow the Money—and Help it Flow

Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy

Early Career Workers in the Service Sector

Half of Service Sector Workers Are Not Yet Vaccinated for COVID-19: What Gets in the Way?

Connecticut Workers Deserve Predictable Hours

Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. Service Sector

Race/Ethnic Gaps in Service-Sector Job Quality: Firm Sorting and Organizational Dynamics

Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers

Worker Power and Class Polarization in Intra-Year Work Hour Volatility

Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes

Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling? The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers

Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health

Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project

COVID-19 Safety Measures Update

Precarious and Unequal: Job Quality in the Bay Area

Unemployed Without a Net: Few Unemployed Service Sector Workers Received UI and Many Experienced Hardships

Poverty, Precarity and Privilege in the Bay Area

Essential Workers Should Be Treated with More Respect

Taking Count: A Study on Poverty in the Bay Area

Essential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California’s Service Sectors

Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers

Close to the Edge: Service Workers and Their Children at the Front Lines of a Crisis

Essential and Vulnerable: Service Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave

Essential and Unprotected: While CA Leads the Way, America’s Grocery, Retail and Food Service Workers Still Lack Paid Sick Leave Amid Pandemic

Estimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers

Working in the Service Sector in New Jersey

Consequences of Routine Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing

Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation

Bail and Pre-Trial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation

A Quarter of US Parents are Unmarried – and that Changes How Much They Invest in Their Kids

For Job Quality, Time is More than Money

The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Year-1 Report

Consequences of Routine Work Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing

It’s About Time: How Work Schedule Instability Matters for Workers, Families, and Racial Inequality

Passing and Implementing Secure Scheduling in Seattle

The Brutal Psychological Toll of Erratic Work Schedules

Working in the Service Sector in Boston

Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investment

What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013

Working in the Service Sector in Washington State

The Evaluation of Seattle’s Secure Scheduling Ordinance: Baseline Report

Working in the Service Sector in Philadelphia

Working in the Service Sector in Connecticut

How Unpredictable Work Scheduling Hurts Retail Workers – and What Might Change

Working in the Service Sector in Philadelphia

Inequality and Household Labor

Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector

Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession

The Effects of the Great Recession on American Families.

Income Volatility in the Service Sector: Contours, Causes, and Consequences

The Great Recession Reduced Fertility among Unmarried and Teen Women

Intimate Partner Violence in the Great Recession

The Surprising Decline in the Non-Marital Fertility Rate: Description and Preliminary Explanation

Incarceration and Household Wealth

The Great Recession and Parental Relationships

Schedule Instability and Unpredictability and Worker and Family Health and Wellbeing

Review of Unequal Time: Gender, Class, and Family in Employment Schedules

Socioeconomic Variation in the Effect of Economic Conditions on Marriage and Nonmarital Fertility in the United States: Evidence From the Great Recession

Lessons Learned from Non-Marriage Experiments

The Great Recession, Fertility, and Uncertainty: Evidence from the States

The Economic Crisis and Medical Care Usage

Incarceration and Black-White Inequality in Homeownership: A State-level Analysis

Marrying Ain’t Hard When You Got a Union Card? Labor Union Membership and First Marriage

The Causal Effect of Father Absence

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Gender, Earnings Share, and Household Expenditure in South Africa

Gender Deviance and Household Work: The Role of Occupation

Wealth and the Marital Divide

Market Earnings and Household Work: New Tests of Gender Performance Theory

Financially Fragile Households: Evidence and Implications

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

New Savings from Old Innovations: Asset Building for the Less Affluent

H&R Block’s Refund Anticipation Loans: Perilous Profits at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Splitting Tax Refunds and Building Savings: An Empirical Test