Assistant Professor, Economics
B.A. Middlebury College; Ph.D. University of California, Davis
Appointed In
2025
Office
Fowler 223
Alaa Abdelfattah's research interest lies at the intersection of labor and urban economics where she studies the distributional effects of public policy and national economic shocks on local labor markets.
She is particularly interested in spatial inequality and the factors that contribute to wage and firm dispersion across space and over time.
Her recent work studies the effect of large firms' subsidies on workers' wages and employment options. In another project, she evaluates the effect of COVID on employer's skill demand across different markets that were unequally affected by COVID due to their industrial composition.