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Randy Albelda

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Professor, at UMB  since 1988.

Areas of Special Interest:
Public Policy, Economics of Taxation, Labor Economics, Political Economy of Gender and Race

 

Office:  Wheatley 5-028  Phone:   617-287-6963  E-mail:   randy.albelda@umb.edu

Randy Albelda is a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston . She is the author of Economics and Feminism: Disturbances in the Field (Twayne Publishers); co-author of the books The War on the Poor: A Defense Manual (The New Press) and Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits: Women's Work, Women's Poverty (South End Press); and co-editor (with Ann Withorn) of Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty and Beyond (South End Press). She is currently working on a project estimating the costs and benefits of paid family and medical leave and co-editing a special issue on Lone Mothers for the journal Feminist Economics .

Randy Albelda's Current Curriculum Vitae: Albelda CV September 2004

Representative Publications:


“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. 

“Moving Target:  The Dilemma of Serving Massachusetts Poor Families” New England Journal of Public Policy, Fall/Winter 2004-2005.

“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”

Lost Ground: Poverty, Welfare Reform and Beyond, edited with Ann Withorn, South End Press, 2002.

Professor Albelda also teaches in the Public Policy Ph.D. program: http://www.publicpolicy.umb.edu/