Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI) Research Scholar Anna Gassman-Pines, Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Health, is the recipient of an NICHD R21 Award “Work Conditions and the Health of Working Parents and their Children.”
The project addresses critical gaps in the literature on the effects of work conditions on worker and family health by collecting daily diary data on work schedules and worker and family wellbeing among a representative sample of workers with young children in particular industries within a city and spanning the passage of a new work schedule policy. The results from this study will provide insights into the current context of work schedules, with a focus on how schedule unpredictability causally affects worker and family health.
This new award represents an extension of Glassman-Pines’ earlier pilot study funded by the DUPRI and the Duke Population Research Center (DPRC).