Alaa Abdelfattah

Alaa Abdelfattah serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Occidental College, appointed in 2025. Her academic background includes a B.A. from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, with her office located in Fowler 223.

Education:

• B.A., Middlebury College
• Ph.D., University of California, Davis

Her research critically examines the intersection of labor and urban economics, focusing on how public policies and national economic shocks generate distributional consequences in local labor markets. Key investigations include spatial inequality dynamics, wage and firm dispersion across geographic regions, and the socioeconomic impacts of large corporate subsidies on worker wages and employment options. Recent work analyzes how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped employer skill demand in markets with divergent industrial compositions, revealing unequal recovery patterns.

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