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Randy Albelda Professor, at UMass Boston since 1988 Randy Albelda is a professor of economics and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. She 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. Professor Albelda writes on poverty, paid family leave policies, racial and gender divisions in occupations, and the distribution of family income and earnings. Her recent work includes the report /Bridging the Gaps Between Earnings and Basic Needs in Massachusetts/, the edited volumes T/he Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood/ and /Lost Ground: Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Beyond/ and the coauthored reports, /Sharing the Costs, Reaping the Benefits: Paid Family and Medical Leave in Massachusetts/, A Tale of Two Decades: Changes in Work and Family in Massachusetts 1979-1999/ and /Beyond Welfare: Emergency Services in Massachusetts./ She is the co-author of the 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.Contact Information Office: Wheatley 5-028 Phone: 617-287-6963 E-mail: randy.albelda@umb.edu Fall 2009 Office Hours Mon. 5:00-5:50 & Wed. 6:45-7:30 & by appointment Randy Albelda's Current Curriculum Vitae
“Now That We Do: Same-sex Couples and Marriage in Massachusetts” with Michael Ash and M. V. Lee Badgett, Massachusetts Benchmarks, 7(2) 2005: pp. 16-24. “Lone Mothers,” a Special Issue of Feminist Economics, edited with Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 2004. Introduction: “The Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Key Issues for Feminist Economics” Randy Albelda and Jennifer Shea, /Bridging the Gaps Between Earnings and Basic Needs in Massachusetts/ (Executive Summary and Final Report) Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston October 2007. Randy Albelda and Heather Boushey, /Bridging the Gaps: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States, /Bridging the Gaps National Report, October 2007, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC and the Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Randy Albelda and Alan Clayton-Matthews, /Sharing the Costs, Reaping the Benefits: Paid Family and Medical Leave in Massachusetts, /Labor Resource Center, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2006. Awards Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus, 2000.Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004. Bridging the Gaps Project
Professor Albelda also teaches in the Public Policy Ph.D. program: http://www.publicpolicy.umb.edu/ |