Professor Randy Albelda
PhD., University of Massachusetts Amherst
Department of Economics
Research Interests and Specialties:
Political Economy, Women's Economic Status, Family Policies, and Poverty.
Randy Albelda is a professor of economics and has worked as research director of the Massachusetts State Senate's Taxation Committee and the legislature's Special Commission on Tax Reform. Her research and teaching covers a broad range of economic policies affecting low-income families.
She has written on welfare reform, paid family leave policies, racial and gender divisions in occupations, the distribution of family income and earnings, and gender and race bias in radical theories of labor market segmentation. Her most recent work includes the edited volumes The Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Essays from Feminist Economics and Lost Ground: Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Beyond and coauthored reports, A Tale of Two Decades: Changes in Work and Family in Massachusetts 1979-1999 and Beyond Welfare: Emergency Services in Massachusetts . Other publications include the book, Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field, co-authored books, Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty; The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual; and Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination. She is the author or co-author of over twenty articles, ten book chapters and dozens of policy reports including Paying Off: The Costs and Benefits of Paid Family and Medical Leave in Massachusetts , Same-Sex Couples and Their Children in Massachusetts: A View from Census 2000, A Tale of Two Decades: Work and Family in Massachusetts 1979-1999 , After Welfare: Poverty and Emergency Services Use in Massachusetts, Choices and Tradeoffs: The Parent Survey of Child Care in Massachusetts and In Harm's Way: Domestic violence, AFDC Receipt, and Welfare Reform in Massachusetts.
Professor Albelda is currently working on a project that examines what happens to family earnings and public benefits in relation to their expenses as adults work more and earn more.
Each year the Chancellor of UMass Boston honors one faculty member for his or her distinguished scholarship. We are proud to announce that Professor Randy Albelda received this prestigious honor in 2004.
Albelda CV(short version), 2009
NEWS BRIEF:
Professor Randy Albelda was a featured speaker at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration's panel in February and at UMass Lowell's Women's Week in March, discussing the current economic crisis and its impacts on women and low-income families. She was also a panelist in a one-day conference at Brooklyn College on Welfare Reform and Higher Education.
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