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Faculty & Staff

Areas of Expertise

Urban Public Policy, Urban Poverty and Labor Market Problems, Economic Status of Women, Development of Urban Public Institutions.

Degrees

PhD, Economics, University of Michigan
BA, Economics, Brandeis University

Professional Publications & Contributions

• The Urban Experienece: Economics, Society, and Public Policy (Oxford, 2008). Co-authors: Barry Bluestone and Russell Williams.
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  The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space and Economic Change in an American Metropolis, (Russell Sage, 2000). Co-author: Barry Bluestone.
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  "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
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  "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.

Additional Information

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." She coauthored an urban policy textbook, The Urban Experience:  Economics, Society, and Public Policy (Oxford, 2008) with Barry Bluestone and Russell Williams.