Faculty & Staff
Randy Albelda, PhD
- Graduate Program Director, Professor of Economics, College of Liberal Arts Senior Research Fellow, Center for Social Policy
- Telephone: 617-287-6963
- Email: randy.albelda@umb.edu
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100 Morrissey Blvd. Office Location: Wheatley Hall, 5th Floor, Room 28
Areas of Expertise
Public Policy, Economics of Taxation, Labor Economics, Political Economy of Gender and Race
Degrees
PhD, Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professional Publications & Contributions
How Youth Are Put at Risk by Parents' Low-wage Jobs, with Lisa Dodson (and Diana Salas and Mayra Mtshali). Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston, Fall 2012
"Time Binds: US Antipoverty Policies, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Single Mothers,” Feminist Economics 17(4), 2011: pp 189-214- Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination, with Robert Drago and Steve Shulman. Economic Affairs Bureau, Third Edition 2010
“To Work More or Not to Work More: Difficult Choices, Complex Decisions for Low-wage Parents” with Jennifer Shea, Journal of Poverty 14(3), July 2010: pp 245-265
Women in the Down Economy: Impacts of the Recession and the Stimulus in Massachusetts , with Christa Kelleher, Jordan Parekh and Diana Salas, University of Massachusetts Boston’s Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy and Center for Social Policy and the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, March 2010.
Counting on Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts, with Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre. University of Massachusetts, September 2009
Additional Information
Randy Albelda is a professor of economics and senior research fellow at the Center for Social Policy at University of Massachusetts Boston. She is also the Graduate Program Director for the department's Master's Degree in Applied Economics. Albelda 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 women and families. In addition to many academic journal articles and policy reports, she is coauthor of the books, Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women’s Work, Women’s Poverty; Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Wage Discrimination; and The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual. Albelda co-led the Bridging the Gaps project bringing together researchers and advocates from nine states and Washington, DC to examine the gaps between basic needs and earnings in light of welfare reform in the 1990s. Albelda recently co-authored the report, “How Youth Are Put At Risk by Parents' Low-wage Work.”
Awards
Abigail Adams Award, Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 2000
Chancellor’s Distinguished Scholar Award, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2004.
