Mary Stevenson

Professor, at UMass Boston since 1972

Professor Stevenson conducts research on unemployment rates, low-wage labor markets, women's wages and job segregation, and women and poverty. She is the author of The Determinants of Low Wages for Women Workers and a co-author of Low Wages and the Working Poor. With Barry Bluestone, she co-authored the book, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space, and Economic Change in an American Metropolis (Russell Sage, 2000) which was selected as one of Choice Magazine's "Outstanding Academic Titles of 2000." Professor Stevenson is currently working with Barry Bluestone and Russell Williams on an urban policy textbook.

Contact Information

Office: Wheatley 5-030

Phone: 617-287-6958

E-mail: mary.stevenson@umb.edu

Office Hours for Fall 2009

Tuesday 3:30 - 4:30 & Thursday 12:30 - 1:45 & by appointment

Additional Office Hours for Spring 2010 Registration

Wednesday, November 4th 1:30-3:30; Thursday, November 5th 3:30-4:30; Tuesday, November 10th 12:30-1:30 and Thursday November 12th 12:30-1:30

Representative Publications
The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space and Economic Change in an American Metropolis, (Russell Sage, 2000). Co-author: Barry Bluestone.

"Labor Market Outcomes for Younger Boston Area Workers in the 1990s: The continuing impact of race" in Borderland of Economics: Essays in Honor of Daniel R. Fusfeld (Routledge, 1997). Co-author: Barry Bluestone

"Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Male Earnings in a Booming Urban Economy," (Eastern Economics Journal, Vol. 25 No. 2, Spring 1999). Co-author: Barry Bluestone.

Prof. Stevenson also teaches in the Public Policy Ph.D. Program.