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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, july 2006
Office Location: Wheatley 5 th Floor, Rm
28
Telephone: 617-287-6963
Email address: randy.albelda@umb.edu
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