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Workplace policies and programs have far-reaching impacts on the day to day lives of employees and their families. Employers also have the potential to create conditions and implement programs that promote improved health and well-being. E4A grantees are evaluating the impacts of working conditions, employee health programs, employment policies, and wage and labor practices on the health and well-being of the workforce, particularly low-wage workers, and their families.

Funded Projects: 

• Exploring the Effects of Wage on the Culture of Health in Early Childhood Education Centers
• Parenthood and Health: Measuring the Effects of Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave, and Child Care
• Stable Schedules Study to Promote Low-Income Worker Health and Well-Being
• Worksite Health Interventions in Public Schools, Teacher Health, and Student Academic Performance
• Worksite Wellness: A Field Experiment on Participation Incentives & Selection into Wellness Programs
• Worker's Health On the Line: A Digital Intervention to Address the Fundamental Causes of Disease in the Low-Wage Retail Sector