[a] His webpage includes links to many of his published articles as well as an essay on growing up at his parents' hotel (The Delmar) in the Catskill Mountains.
At Penn, Jacobs has been affiliated with a number of departments and programs, including the Graduate School of Education, the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics, the Management Department at the Wharton School, the Population Studies Center, and the Women’s Studies Program.
Jacobs’ research has tracked the long term persistence of this pattern, but he has also showed that there is more movement between male-dominated, gender-neutral and female-dominated fields than is generally recognized.
Jacobs has also focused considerable research attention on issues related to work and family.
The main theme of this study is a critical reexamination of whether automation will displace large number of workers.