Candace Howes

Candace Howes is the Barbara Hogate Ferrin '43 Professor of Economics at Connecticut College, where she has been a faculty member since 1995. Her research focuses on labor economics with particular emphasis on low-wage workers and care work in long-term care settings.

Her educational background includes a B.A. in Middle East Languages and Literature from Barnard College and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Howes specializes in labor economics examining the impact of job quality on care quality in institutional and home-based long-term-care settings, with significant contributions to understanding workforce challenges in home care provision. Her earlier research analyzed U.S. manufacturing competitiveness and its effects on workers, including Japanese auto industry impacts.

Her scientific awards include:

• 2011 Helen Brooks Regan Faculty Leadership Award

Professor Howes has secured major research funding:

• $157,000 Russell Sage Foundation grant (2011) studying job quality effects on long-term care
• $500,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Atlantic Philanthropies grant (2005) for Better Jobs Better Care initiative

She provides research assistance and expert testimony for long-term care advocacy groups while maintaining active professional memberships in the American Economics Association, Labor and Employment Relations Association, Committee on Status of Women in Economics Profession, and International Association for Feminist Economics.