Teaching
SUP 325: The Future of Work: Power, Profits, and Public Policy
The Shift Project conducts critical research on the impacts of working conditions – from scheduling to paid leave to workplace surveillance – on the nearly 20% of the United States workforce employed in the service sector. Utilizing one-of-a-kind, in-house survey data collected from more than 200,000 hourly workers since 2016, we drive actionable insights into the causes, contours, and consequences of precarious work. Our work informs labor standards and firm policies that advance the holistic well-being of workers and their families.
API 203M: Empirical Methods II
Surveys and polls provide much of the data we use to understand the world around us. In fact, much of the data we use – including statistics about people, schools, health, crime, and other things we commonly think of as “facts” or “data” – are created, at least in part, using surveys. More broadly, surveys are a tool used in a wide variety of academic and professional fields to create original data and answer questions that otherwise couldn’t be answered, using methods ranging from descriptive analysis to the latest tools of causal inference. This course is designed to teach students the skills necessary to create, use, and interpret survey data. The course will cover questionnaire design, sampling, modes of data collection, and other topics. Students will complete applied assignments in survey methods.