D Schneider
Biographic Data
| ID | 17430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Schneider |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneider |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEIDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6786-0302 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 435 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1950 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Estimating the impact of state paid sick leave laws on worker outcomes in the U.S. service sector, 2017–2023
In the absence of a federal paid sick leave (PSL) standard, numerous U.S. states have passed laws to provide workers access to such benefits. These laws may be especially beneficial for low-wage workers whose employers often do not voluntarily provide PSL. We draw on novel data from The Shift Project (N = 68,930), which surveyed U.S. service sector workers between 2017 and 2023, to examine the effects of state PSL laws on proximate worker outcome…
Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Well-Being Survey Research: Strategies From 5 Occupational Studies
Without perspectives of low-wage workers in studies of worker health and well-being, researchers cannot comprehensively assess occupational health and health equity impacts of workplace exposures and interventions. Researchers and practitioners have noted particular challenges in engaging low-wage workers in worksite-based health survey research, yet little scholarship has described strategies for improving their engagement and response rates. To…
Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
ObjectiveWe assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials relevant to precarious work.BackgroundIn the United States, parenthood drives a wedge in wages, as mothers often earn less than women without children, whereas fathers typically earn more than men without children. Firms bear influence over setting wages a…
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of "bad jobs" in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits. Scholarly, policy, and public debate persists, however, about whether these jobs can serve as steppingstones to intra-generational job quality mobility or are instead "poverty traps." While scholarship increasingly recognizes the multi-dimensional nature o…
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity. It has also shaped socioeconomic inequalities along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity, nativity, and class in America. The effects of COVID-19 are evident in the stratified experiences of Americans in work, unemployment, and unpaid labor; in stark inequalities in wealth and income; in the historic expansions and retrenchments in social welfare spending; and i…
The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector
Unequal sorting of men and women into higher and lower-wage firms contributes significantly to the gender wage gap according to recent analysis of national labor markets. We confirm the importance of this between-firm gender segregation in wages and examine a second outcome of hours using unique employer-employee data from the service sector. We then examine what explains the relationship between firm gender composition and wages. In contrast to …
The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace Covid-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers. Frontline service sector workers, already coping with precarious working conditions, faced proximate risks of COVID-19 transmission on the job and navigated new workplace safety measures, including masking, social distancing, and staying home while sick, all in a polarized political environment. We examine polarization in the effects of COVID-19 w…
Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior
Objective: This article estimates the association between maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules in the service sector and child internalizing and externalizing behavior. Background: Precarious work is widespread and characterized by low wages, few benefits, and nonstandard schedules. But working parents, especially in the service sector, contend with unpredictable work schedules as well. These schedules have negative consequences for …
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run. This study uses novel data from the Shift Project to describe the link between schedule unpredictability and high-cost debt (i.e., payday loans, pawnshop loans, auto-title loans, overdrafts, and problematic credit card debt) among service workers. First, it compares the relative magnitude of the …
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditures
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities. Recent research identifies significant class gaps in parental investments that contribute to high levels of inequality by family income and education. State-level public investments in children and families have the potential to reduce class inequality in children's developmental environments by af…
Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious and polarized. This precarity is manifest in low wages but also in unstable and unpredictable work schedules that often vary significantly week to week with little advance notice. We draw on new survey data from The Shift Project on 37,263 hourly retail and food service workers in the United States. We assess …
The association of paid medical and caregiving leave with the economic security and wellbeing of service sector workers
Access to paid leave enables front line workers to take needed leave from work while maintaining their financial security and wellbeing
Family Structure and Inequalities in Parents' Financial Investments in Children
Objective This study examines family structure differences in parents' financial investments in children. Background Family structure in the United States is undergoing important change and continued stratification with increases in single parenting and cohabiting unions. These transformations in family demography have important implications for social mobility as theory and empirical research suggest family structure plays an important role in s…
Losing sleep over work scheduling? The relationship between work schedules and sleep quality for service sector workers
In the retail and food service sectors, work schedules change from day-to-day and week-to-week, often with little advance notice, posing a potential impediment to healthy sleep patterns. In this article, we use data from the Shift Project collected in 2018 and 2019 for a sample of over 16,000 hourly workers employed in the service sector to examine relationships between unstable and unpredictable work schedules and sleep quality. We extend prior …
What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of low wages and limited fringe benefits, but research has only recently examined the prevalence and consequences of unstable and unpredictable work schedules. Yet practices such as on-call shifts, last minute cancellations, and insufficient work hours are common in the retail and food-service sectors. Little research has e…
Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation
Katherine Hood, Daniel Schneider, Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 126-149
Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being
Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But the rise in precarious work also involves a major shift in its temporal dimension, such that many workers now experience routine instability in their work schedules. This temporal instability represents a fundamental and under-appreciated manifestation of the risk shift from firms to workers. A lack of suita…
Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we …
What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013
Rates of entry into first marriage have declined sharply in the United States during the past half century, and there is evidence of broad gaps in marriage entry by race and education. Although a large literature explores the influences on marriage for single cohorts, there is little research that tests explanations for this decline across multiple cohorts. The authors use individual and contextual measures of employment and incarceration to pred…
Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession
Daniel Schneider, Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 126-144
The effects of the Great Recession on American families
The Great Recession was marked by historic rates of unemployment and foreclosure and caused substantial household economic hardship and widespread economic uncertainty. I review recent social scientific research on the effects of the Great Recession on American families. I first generate a set of expectations for how the Great Recession would have affected (a) marriage and cohabitation, (b) fertility, and (c) relationship quality and divorce base…
Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector
Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with parents employed in the service sector in the San Francisco Bay area, we find that meeting the demands of work and parenting almost invariably involved reliance on informal child care. We unpack the relationship between work schedules and specific constellations of informal child care. We show that the stability and predictability of work schedules shaped child-care arrangements. Working parents with stable,…
The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
Journal Article The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic Get access Patrick Weil. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. vi, 285 pp. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1288–1289, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau140 Published: 01 March 2014
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Gender, Income Share and Household Expenditure in South Africa
This study examines how gendered household bargaining occurs in non-nuclear family households. We employ two South African data sets and use linear regression and household fixed effects to investigate the relationship between women's income shares and household expenditures. In married couple households, when women garner larger shares of income, spending on food is higher and spending on alcohol is lower. However, the relationship between women…
Research advances on climate-induced slope instability in glacier and permafrost high-mountain environments
High-mountain areas with glacier and permafrost occurrence are temperature sensitive environments. Climatic changes are, thus, likely to have an effect on slope stability. Several recent events have shown that rock and ice avalanches and related hazards can have severe consequences. For hazard analysis, the processes of slope failure and flow dynamics should therefore be better understood. In this article, recent advances in this field are presen…
Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being
Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But the rise in precarious work also involves a major shift in its temporal dimension, such that many workers now experience routine instability in their work schedules. This temporal instability represents a fundamental and under-appreciated manifestation of the risk shift from firms to workers. A lack of suita…
Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we …
What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of low wages and limited fringe benefits, but research has only recently examined the prevalence and consequences of unstable and unpredictable work schedules. Yet practices such as on-call shifts, last minute cancellations, and insufficient work hours are common in the retail and food-service sectors. Little research has e…
Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector
Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with parents employed in the service sector in the San Francisco Bay area, we find that meeting the demands of work and parenting almost invariably involved reliance on informal child care. We unpack the relationship between work schedules and specific constellations of informal child care. We show that the stability and predictability of work schedules shaped child-care arrangements. Working parents with stable,…
What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013
Rates of entry into first marriage have declined sharply in the United States during the past half century, and there is evidence of broad gaps in marriage entry by race and education. Although a large literature explores the influences on marriage for single cohorts, there is little research that tests explanations for this decline across multiple cohorts. The authors use individual and contextual measures of employment and incarceration to pred…
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditures
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities. Recent research identifies significant class gaps in parental investments that contribute to high levels of inequality by family income and education. State-level public investments in children and families have the potential to reduce class inequality in children's developmental environments by af…
Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
The effects of the Great Recession on American families
The Great Recession was marked by historic rates of unemployment and foreclosure and caused substantial household economic hardship and widespread economic uncertainty. I review recent social scientific research on the effects of the Great Recession on American families. I first generate a set of expectations for how the Great Recession would have affected (a) marriage and cohabitation, (b) fertility, and (c) relationship quality and divorce base…
The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector
Unequal sorting of men and women into higher and lower-wage firms contributes significantly to the gender wage gap according to recent analysis of national labor markets. We confirm the importance of this between-firm gender segregation in wages and examine a second outcome of hours using unique employer-employee data from the service sector. We then examine what explains the relationship between firm gender composition and wages. In contrast to …
Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession
Daniel Schneider, Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 126-144
Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation
Katherine Hood, Daniel Schneider, Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 126-149
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run. This study uses novel data from the Shift Project to describe the link between schedule unpredictability and high-cost debt (i.e., payday loans, pawnshop loans, auto-title loans, overdrafts, and problematic credit card debt) among service workers. First, it compares the relative magnitude of the …
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity. It has also shaped socioeconomic inequalities along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity, nativity, and class in America. The effects of COVID-19 are evident in the stratified experiences of Americans in work, unemployment, and unpaid labor; in stark inequalities in wealth and income; in the historic expansions and retrenchments in social welfare spending; and i…
Promoting the health and well-being of future generations
Engaging Low-Wage Workers in Health and Well-Being Survey Research: Strategies From 5 Occupational Studies
Without perspectives of low-wage workers in studies of worker health and well-being, researchers cannot comprehensively assess occupational health and health equity impacts of workplace exposures and interventions. Researchers and practitioners have noted particular challenges in engaging low-wage workers in worksite-based health survey research, yet little scholarship has described strategies for improving their engagement and response rates. To…
Between-firm sorting and parenthood wage gaps in the US service sector
ObjectiveWe assess how the distribution of parents across firms contributes to parenthood wage gaps in a low-wage US labor market and examine the role of understudied compensating differentials relevant to precarious work.BackgroundIn the United States, parenthood drives a wedge in wages, as mothers often earn less than women without children, whereas fathers typically earn more than men without children. Firms bear influence over setting wages a…
Labor market pathways to job quality mobility in the service sector: Evidence from the “Great Resignation”
Since the mid-1970s, there has been a sharp rise in the prevalence of "bad jobs" in the U.S. labor market, characterized by stagnant wages, unstable work schedules, and limited fringe benefits. Scholarly, policy, and public debate persists, however, about whether these jobs can serve as steppingstones to intra-generational job quality mobility or are instead "poverty traps." While scholarship increasingly recognizes the multi-dimensional nature o…
The Politics of Prevention: Polarization in How Workplace Covid-19 Safety Practices Shaped the Well-Being of Frontline Service Sector Workers
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically reshaped the labor market, especially for service sector workers. Frontline service sector workers, already coping with precarious working conditions, faced proximate risks of COVID-19 transmission on the job and navigated new workplace safety measures, including masking, social distancing, and staying home while sick, all in a polarized political environment. We examine polarization in the effects of COVID-19 w…
Selected Writings of Edward Sapir in Language, Culture and Personality
The Crystal Cage: Adventures of the Imagination in the Fiction of Henry James
Schopenhauer and the Development of D. H. Lawrence's Psychology
The Returning Angel: Rebellion, Guilt and Expiation in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Alternatives to Logocentrism in D. H. Lawrence
Promoting the health and well-being of future generations
Research advances on climate-induced slope instability in glacier and permafrost high-mountain environments
High-mountain areas with glacier and permafrost occurrence are temperature sensitive environments. Climatic changes are, thus, likely to have an effect on slope stability. Several recent events have shown that rock and ice avalanches and related hazards can have severe consequences. For hazard analysis, the processes of slope failure and flow dynamics should therefore be better understood. In this article, recent advances in this field are presen…
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Gender, Income Share and Household Expenditure in South Africa
This study examines how gendered household bargaining occurs in non-nuclear family households. We employ two South African data sets and use linear regression and household fixed effects to investigate the relationship between women's income shares and household expenditures. In married couple households, when women garner larger shares of income, spending on food is higher and spending on alcohol is lower. However, the relationship between women…
The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic
Journal Article The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic Get access Patrick Weil. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. vi, 285 pp. Paper, $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1288–1289, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau140 Published: 01 March 2014
Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession
Daniel Schneider, Non-marital and Teen Fertility and Contraception During the Great Recession, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 3, The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession (April 2017), pp. 126-144
The effects of the Great Recession on American families
The Great Recession was marked by historic rates of unemployment and foreclosure and caused substantial household economic hardship and widespread economic uncertainty. I review recent social scientific research on the effects of the Great Recession on American families. I first generate a set of expectations for how the Great Recession would have affected (a) marriage and cohabitation, (b) fertility, and (c) relationship quality and divorce base…
Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector
Drawing on 25 in-depth interviews with parents employed in the service sector in the San Francisco Bay area, we find that meeting the demands of work and parenting almost invariably involved reliance on informal child care. We unpack the relationship between work schedules and specific constellations of informal child care. We show that the stability and predictability of work schedules shaped child-care arrangements. Working parents with stable,…
Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investments
Historic increases in income inequality have coincided with widening class divides in parental investments of money and time in children. These widening class gaps are significant because parental investment is one pathway by which advantage is transmitted across generations. Using over three decades of micro-data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the American Heritage Time Use Survey linked to state-year measures of income inequality, we …
What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013
Rates of entry into first marriage have declined sharply in the United States during the past half century, and there is evidence of broad gaps in marriage entry by race and education. Although a large literature explores the influences on marriage for single cohorts, there is little research that tests explanations for this decline across multiple cohorts. The authors use individual and contextual measures of employment and incarceration to pred…
Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation
Katherine Hood, Daniel Schneider, Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 1, Criminal Justice Contact and Inequality (February 2019), pp. 126-149
Consequences of Routine Work-Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Well-Being
Research on precarious work and its consequences overwhelmingly focuses on the economic dimension of precarity, epitomized by low wages. But the rise in precarious work also involves a major shift in its temporal dimension, such that many workers now experience routine instability in their work schedules. This temporal instability represents a fundamental and under-appreciated manifestation of the risk shift from firms to workers. A lack of suita…
Family Structure and Inequalities in Parents' Financial Investments in Children
Objective This study examines family structure differences in parents' financial investments in children. Background Family structure in the United States is undergoing important change and continued stratification with increases in single parenting and cohabiting unions. These transformations in family demography have important implications for social mobility as theory and empirical research suggest family structure plays an important role in s…
Losing sleep over work scheduling? The relationship between work schedules and sleep quality for service sector workers
In the retail and food service sectors, work schedules change from day-to-day and week-to-week, often with little advance notice, posing a potential impediment to healthy sleep patterns. In this article, we use data from the Shift Project collected in 2018 and 2019 for a sample of over 16,000 hourly workers employed in the service sector to examine relationships between unstable and unpredictable work schedules and sleep quality. We extend prior …
What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector
Precarious work in the United States is defined by economic and temporal dimensions. A large literature documents the extent of low wages and limited fringe benefits, but research has only recently examined the prevalence and consequences of unstable and unpredictable work schedules. Yet practices such as on-call shifts, last minute cancellations, and insufficient work hours are common in the retail and food-service sectors. Little research has e…
Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers
American policymakers have long focused on work as a key means to improve economic wellbeing. Yet, work has become increasingly precarious and polarized. This precarity is manifest in low wages but also in unstable and unpredictable work schedules that often vary significantly week to week with little advance notice. We draw on new survey data from The Shift Project on 37,263 hourly retail and food service workers in the United States. We assess …
The association of paid medical and caregiving leave with the economic security and wellbeing of service sector workers
Access to paid leave enables front line workers to take needed leave from work while maintaining their financial security and wellbeing
Maternal exposure to work schedule unpredictability and child behavior
Objective: This article estimates the association between maternal exposure to unpredictable work schedules in the service sector and child internalizing and externalizing behavior. Background: Precarious work is widespread and characterized by low wages, few benefits, and nonstandard schedules. But working parents, especially in the service sector, contend with unpredictable work schedules as well. These schedules have negative consequences for …
Schedule Unpredictability and High-Cost Debt: The Case of Service Workers
High-cost financial services allow economically insecure families to make ends meet but often contribute to additional financial strain in the long run. This study uses novel data from the Shift Project to describe the link between schedule unpredictability and high-cost debt (i.e., payday loans, pawnshop loans, auto-title loans, overdrafts, and problematic credit card debt) among service workers. First, it compares the relative magnitude of the …
Public Investments and Class Gaps in Parents' Developmental Expenditures
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities. Recent research identifies significant class gaps in parental investments that contribute to high levels of inequality by family income and education. State-level public investments in children and families have the potential to reduce class inequality in children's developmental environments by af…
Introduction: The Socioeconomic Impacts of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacted a historic toll on Americans’ health and longevity. It has also shaped socioeconomic inequalities along the lines of gender, race, ethnicity, nativity, and class in America. The effects of COVID-19 are evident in the stratified experiences of Americans in work, unemployment, and unpaid labor; in stark inequalities in wealth and income; in the historic expansions and retrenchments in social welfare spending; and i…
Economics (19 works) · Demographic economics (17 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Labour economics (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (9 works) · Medicine (7 works)