Articles

2020
Schnieder, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. 2020. “Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers ”. Social Forces 99 (4):1682-1709. Publisher's VersionAbstract
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 between routine unpredictability in work schedules and household material hardship. Using both cross-sectional models and panel models, we find that workers who receive shorter advanced notice, those who work on-call, those who experience last minute shift cancellation and timing changes, and those with more volatile work hours are more likely to experience hunger, residential, medical, and utility hardships as well as more overall hardship. Just-in-time work schedules afford employers a great deal of flexibility but at a heavy cost to workers’ economic security.
Harknett, Kristen, and Daniel Schneider. 2020. “ Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health”. Health Affairs. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel. 2020. “Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes”. American Journal of Public Health 110 (4):499-504. Publisher's Version
Storer, Adam, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. 2020. “What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector? ”. American Sociological Review. Publisher's Version
Harknett, Kristen, Daniel Schneider, and Sigrid Luhr. 2020. “Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements ”. Social Problems. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. 2020. “Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers”. Social Forces. Publisher's Version
2019
Hood, Katherine, and Daniel Schneider. 2019. “Bail and Pre-Trial Detention:Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation”. RSF Journal of the Social Sciences 5 (1):126-149. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Matt Stimpson. 2019. “Job Quality and the Educational Gradient in Entry into Marriage and Cohabitation”. Demography 56 (2):451-476. Publisher's Version
LaBriola, Joe, and Daniel Schneider. 2019. “Worker Power and Class Polarization in Intra-Year Work Hour Volatility”. Social Forces. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. 2019. “What's to Like? Facebook as a Tool for Survey Data Collection”. Sociological Methods and Research. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. 2019. “Consequences of Routine Schedule Instability for Worker Health and Wellbeing”. American Sociological Review 84 (1):82-114. Publisher's Version
2018
Schneider, Daniel, Orestes Hastings, and Joe LaBriola. 2018. “Income Inequality and Class Divides in Parental Investment”. American Sociological Review 83 (3):475-507. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Matt Stimpson. 2018. “What Explains the Decline in First Marriage in the United States? Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, 1969 to 2013”. Journal of Marriage and Family 80 (4):791-811. Publisher's Version
2017
Schneider, Daniel. 2017. “The Effects of the Great Recession on American Families”. Sociology Compass 11 (4):1-11. Publisher's Version
Carillo, Dani, Kristen Harknett, Allison Logan, Sigrid Luhr, and Daniel Schneider. 2017. “Instability of Work and Care: How Work Schedules Shape Child-Care Arrangements for Parents Working in the Service Sector”. Social Service Review 91 (3):422-455. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, and Orestes Hastings. 2017. “ Inequality and Household Labor”. Social Forces 96 (2):481-506. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel. 2017. “How Did the Great Recession Reduce Fertility?”. RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences. 3 (3):126-144. Publisher's Version
2016
Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Sara McLanahan. 2016. “Intimate Partner Violencein the Great Recession”. Demography 53 (2):471-505. Publisher's Version
Schneider, Daniel, Sara McLanahan, and Kristen Harknett. 2016. “The Great Recession and Parental Relationships”. in Children of the Great Recession eds. Irv Garfinkel, Sara McLanahan, and Chris Wimer. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. Publisher's Version
Turney, Kristin, and Daniel Schneider. 2016. “Incarceration and Household Wealth ”. Demography. 53 (6):2075-2103. Publisher's Version

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