Economic Security Projects

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Entrepreneurship as a Career Choice for Women

2020 - 2023
This study examines entrepreneurship as a career choice for women.
Family Friendly: How Are Firms and Establishments Affected by State Paid Family Leave Programs?

2020 - 2022
Researchers study the impact of paid family leave programs on business firms in California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
Surviving and Striving: Low-Income Parents Pursuit of Higher Education as a Path Out of Poverty

Ongoing since 2018
This project explores the specific policy contexts that support and impede student parents and other factors within their lived experience that shape their success.
Career Dynamics: A Longitudinal Analysis of U.S. Firms and Households

2018 - 2020
This study focuses on understanding the dynamics of gender earnings and employment gaps with age and career experience in the U.S.
Segregation and Job-to-Job Mobility

Ongoing since 2015
Researchers use Norwegian time-use survey data to study the effect of performance pay on the allocation of tasks within the household and analyzing worker mobility and earnings in the U.S.-linked employer-employee data

Census Survey of Business Owners Project

2015 - 2019
This project looks at entrepreneurship using data from the Survey of Business Owners.
Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Job Creation

2015 - 2019
Sari Pekkala Kerr, Ph.D., examines the impacts of immigrant entrepreneurs in the U.S.
Family Policies and Women’s Labor Market Careers

2010 - 2011
This research project analyzes the effects of family leave policies in the United States and Finland.