Healthcare Unionization Study - Incite at Columbia University

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Healthcare Unionization Study

  • Led by Columbia Labor Lab
  • Team
    • Adam Reich Principal Investigator
    • Patrick Youngblood Research Manager
  • Funded by JPAL-MIT Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Urban Institute Washington Center for Equitable Growth

In partnership with a healthcare labor union, we are evaluating the causal impact of labor organizing on health and labor market outcomes in the healthcare sector. 

This project randomizes efforts to unionize health care facilities and implements mixed methods data collection around these efforts to obtain the first ever randomization-based causal effects of labor organizing within the health care sector.

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