Daniel Schneider

Daniel Schneider is a Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Professor Schneider completed his B.A. in Public Policy at Brown University in 2003 and earned his PhD in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2012. Prior to joining Harvard, he was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at UC Berkeley and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Postdoctoral Scholar in Health Policy Research at Berkeley/UCSF. Professor Schneider’s research interests are focused on social demography, inequality, and the family. He has written on class inequality in parenting, the role of economic resources in marriage, divorce, and fertility, the effects of the Great Recession, and the scope of household financial fragility. As Co-Director of The Shift Project, his current research focuses on how precarious and unpredictable work schedules affects household economic security and worker and family health and wellbeing.

Academic Journal/Scholarly Articles

• Harknett, Kristen, Daniel Schneider, and Rebecca Wolfe. "Losing Sleep over Work Scheduling? The Relationship between Work Schedules and Sleep Quality for Service Sector Workers." SSM-Population Health 12 (December 2020): 100681.
• Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Sigrid Luhr. "Who Cares if Parents have Unpredictable Work Schedules?: Just-in-Time Work Schedules and Child Care Arrangements." Social Problems (September 14, 2020).
• Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Hard Times: Routine Schedule Unpredictability and Material Hardship among Service Sector Workers." Social Forces (August 2020).
• Storer, Adam, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "What Explains Racial/Ethnic Inequality in Job Quality in the Service Sector?" American Sociological Review 85.4 (August 2020): 537-572.
• Schneider, Daniel. "Paid Sick Leave in Washington State: Evidence on Employee Outcomes, 2016–2018." American Journal of Public Health 110.4 (April 2020): 499-504.
• Harknett, Kristen, Daniel Schneider. "Precarious Work Schedules and Population Health." Health Affairs (2020).

Research Papers/Reports

• Schneider, Daniel, Ben Bowyer, Jamie Austin, and Jacob Leos-Urbel. "Taking Count: Poverty, Insecurity, and Privilege in the Bay Area." July 30, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Essential and Vulnerable: Service-Sector Workers and Paid Sick Leave." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett. "Essential Changes Needed for Essential Workers: Job Quality for California's Service Sectors." Shift Project/Irvine Foundation Research Brief, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Megan Collins. "Working in the Service Sector in New Jersey." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
• Bloemraad, Irene, Benjamin Bowyer, Taeku Lee, Daniel Schneider, Kim Voss, Jamie Austin, and Jacob Leos-Urbel. "Taking Count: A Study on Poverty in the Bay Area." Tipping Point Community, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel. "Essential and Unprotected: COVID-19-Related Health and Safety Procedures for Service-Sector Workers." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Close to the Edge: Service Workers and Their Children at the Front Lines of a Crisis." William T. Grant Foundation Blog, April 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett, and Annette Gailliot. "Unemployed Without a Net: Few Unemployed Service Sector Workers Received UI and Many Experienced Hardships." Shift Project, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel. "Precarious and Unequal: Job Quality in the Bay Area. Taking Count Survey Report, Tipping Point Community." 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Paid Sick Leave in Virginia: Evidence from the Shift Project." Shift Project, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, Kristen Harknett. "Essential and Unprotected: While CA Leads the Way, America's Grocery, Retail and Food Service Workers Still Lack Paid Sick Leave Amid Pandemic." Sacramento Bee, 2020.
• Schneider, Daniel, and Kristen Harknett. "Estimates of Workers Who Lack Access to Paid Sick Leave at 91 Large Service Sector Employers." Shift Project Research Brief, 2020.
• Ho, Helen, Daniel Schneider, and Kristen Harknett. "COVID-19 Safety Measures Update." Shift Project, 2020.

Magazine and Newspaper Articles

• Harknett, Kristen, and Daniel Schneider. "Essential Workers Should Be Treated with More Respect." San Francisco Chronicle. July 11, 2020.