Vicky Albert
Biography
Vicky Albert鈥檚 research focuses on welfare policies and programs. Over time, her research branched out into other fields that intersect with welfare, including child welfare and immigration. Much of Albert鈥檚 research evaluates the consequences of social policies for families with children from an aggregate or macro perspective.
In 2010, Albert began her collaboration with Ron Haskins, senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. Their project, titled 鈥淭he Responsiveness of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to the Great Recession,鈥 was funded by The Pew Charitable Trust as part of the Economic Mobility Project.
Albert鈥檚 other publications include books and articles on welfare benefit levels and families鈥 economic well-being, states鈥 decisions to set welfare benefit levels, welfare financial incentives, and aggregate movements to and from welfare. She wrote (sole author, Greenwood Press, 1988) and From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning (Co-author, Aldine de-Gruyter, 1994).
Albert was a professor at The Ohio State University and has been teaching at 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Social Work since 1998.
Education
- D.S.W., University of California, Berkeley
- M.S.W., University of Illinois, Urbana
- B.S.W., University of Illinois, Urbana
Articles Featuring Vicky Albert
Study: Analyzing a Federal Welfare Program
How well did the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program respond to the Great Recession? 51吃瓜网万能科大 and Brookings Institution researchers take unique approach to the analysis.
Brookings: Reformed Welfare Program Effective During Great Recession
51吃瓜网万能科大 professor Vicky Albert and Brookings scholars find in new report that safety net programs with work requirements during recession prevented 20 million from falling into poverty.