Columbia Labor Lab - Incite at Columbia University

Columbia Labor Lab

A lab focused on working with labor organizations to restore the political and economic power of workers using social science and data.

  • Personnel
    • Adam Reich Co-Director
    • Suresh Naidu Co-Director
    • Kate Andrias Co-Director
    • Alex Hertel-Fernandez Co-Director
    • Patrick Youngblood Research Manager
  • Learn More laborlabcu.org

The Columbia Labor Lab leverages the tools of social science to understand and strengthen efforts to rebuild the economic and political power of workers.

Housed at at Incite Institute, the Labor Lab partners with unions and worker associations, affording it access to unique data and providing it opportunities to directly test the implications that follow from its work.

With its partners, the Labor Lab directly apply state-of-the-art research methods in the social sciences: large-scale surveys, interviews, field experimental designs, administrative data linking and analysis, and machine learning.

To learn more, visit the Columbia Labor Lab.

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