Her current research studies the impact of digital financial services, especially for women.
To understand this it's worth looking at another of Steinberg's case studies: the impact of genetic research on women.
The San Francisco initiative is one of a limited body of research that specifically studies the impact of jobs on women's health.
Last week, the de Blasio administration dropped its plans to limit the car-service app's growth while it studies the impact of ride-hailing apps on traffic.
Carol Moog, a psychologist who studies the impact of brand names and advertising, said Virginia Fields sent a less-intriguing message than C. Virginia Fields.
"It's not that we're running out of work or jobs per se," David Autor, an M.I.T. economist who studies the impact of automation on employment, said.
Tasha Lewis, a researcher at Cornell University in New York state, who studies the impact of technology in the apparel industry, is less sceptical.
This separation in the home contributes to a "fracturing of family life," said John Murray, a professor of developmental psychology at Kansas State University, who studies the impact of television violence on children.
"When budgets get tight, expanding gambling always looks to lawmakers like the perfect quick-fix solution," said John Kindt, a professor of business and legal policy at the University of Illinois who studies the impact of state-sponsored gambling.
Recorded music "will be used to promote the artist, and the labels will need to find other sources of revenue," predicted Starling D. Hunter III, an assistant professor at M.I.T, who studies the impact of technology on established industries.
Michael Zweig is professor of economics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where in 1999 he founded the Group for the Study of Working Class Life, an interdisciplinary center that studies the impact of class.
