Purpose:
- The purpose of the Labor Research and Evaluation grants is to build evidence around issues of importance to the Department of Labor and American public, including critical issues related to worker protection, safety and human capital development. These grants will continue to build the capacity of university-based researchers to rigorously examine these issues while building awareness and understanding of these issues among program administrators, policy makers and the public.
Project Overview:
- Nearly $2 million was awarded to nine university grantees to support research on workforce policies and programs.
- A wide range of topics are being explored, all with a focus on evaluating or researching a topic that has direct implications for DOL program, the labor force and the American worker.
- All grantees will submit a final report detailing their research findings.
Principal Investigator(s), Grantee University |
Project Title |
Amount |
---|---|---|
Martin Wells and Erin York Cornwell, Cornell University |
Criminal Record Inaccuracies and the Impact of a Record Education Intervention on Employment-Related Outcomes |
$244,603 |
Hassan Enayati, Cornell University |
Initial Impact of Section 503 Rules: Understanding Good Employer Practices and the Trends in Disability Violations Among Federal Contractors |
$249,999 |
Charlotte Alexander, Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc. |
A Study of U.S. District Courts Misclassification Decisions, 2008-2015 |
$247,745 |
Emily Breza, President and Fellows of Harvard College |
The Real Effects of Electronic Wage Payments: An Experiment with Salaried Factory Workers in Bangladesh |
$187,781 |
Daniel Schneider and Kristen Harknett, The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley |
Regulating Unstable and Unpredictable Work Hours in the Service Sector: Evidence from Seattle |
$249,916 |
Soo-Jeong Lee, The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco |
The Impact of Safe Patient Handling Legislation on Musculoskeletal Disorders among California Health Care Workers |
$249,996 |
Roland Zullo, The Regents of the University of Michigan |
Section 14(b) and the Protective Role of Unions |
$177,945 |
Mary Davis, Tufts University |
The Effect of Performance Pay on US Workers Physical and Emotional Health |
$110,994 |
M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Analyzing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination in Federal Contracts |
$249,967 |
Program Period: January 2017-November 2019
For More Information: ChiefEvaluationOffice@dol.gov