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.
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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.
Projects led by the Center
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go to the Grocery Delivery Workers Project project
Grocery Delivery Workers Project
Advancing understandings of the grocery delivery workforce using sales data, worker reviews, surveys, and interviews.
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go to the Healthcare Unionization Study project
Healthcare Unionization Study
Evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on health and labor market outcomes in the healthcare sector.
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go to the Summer for Respect: Organizing and Oral History project
Summer for Respect: Organizing and Oral History
Spending a summer documenting economic disenfranchisement across America through oral history interviews with workers' groups.
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go to the Workers' Health on the Line project
Workers' Health on the Line
Evaluating the effects of digital tools for enhancing workers’ collective efficacy and well-being.
Latest news
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go to Advancing Healthcare Equity for Indigenous Peoples through Community Dialogue
Sep 16, 2025Advancing Healthcare Equity for Indigenous Peoples through Community Dialogue
A team supported by Incite's Global Change Program (GCP) hosted a three-day event dedicated to enhancing healthcare access for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the Philippines.
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go to Meet the lab tackling the global forced disappearance crisis
Aug 14, 2025Meet the lab tackling the global forced disappearance crisis
The Social Study of Disappearance Lab—which examines disappearance as a social phenomenon—joins Incite Institute.