Randy Albelda is Professor of Economics and Senior Research Associate of the Center for Social Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research focuses on the economic situation of low-income families, with an emphasis on the ways employment and government economic policies impact those families. In the 1980s, Albelda served as the research director of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Tax Policy.
Mignon Duffy is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Faculty Associate of the Center for Women and Work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, race and class inequalities with paid care work. She is currently completing a book entitled Intimate Labors: A History of Gender, Race, Class and Paid Care Work.
Nancy Folbre is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also teaches in the Public Policy and Administration Program there. Her research focuses on measurement and valuation of unpaid care work. Her most recent book, Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. Folbre is a regular contributor to the New York Times Economix blog at http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/author/nancy-folbre/.
Clare Hammonds is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University. Her research interests include gender, care work, and the labor movement.
Jooyeoun Suh is a graduate student in the Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is writing a doctoral dissertation on the economics of time use.