Born and raised in Queens, New York, she studied economics and gender studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and received her PhD from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She has been at WU since 2012. Alyssa Schneebaum is also a Research Consultant at the UCLA Williams Institute. Her research focuses mainly on labor economics, applied microeconometrics, and the economics of gender, families, and inequality.

The economist has published her research in renowned journals such as Demography, Feminist Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Economics Letters, and Applied Economics. Alyssa Schneebaum was a recipient of the FWF Austrian Science Fund’s Hertha Firnberg grant from 2014 to 2018. She was presented with the Kurt Rothschild Award in 2016, and won the Käthe Leichter Award in 2018.

In her research video, Alyssa Schneebaum talks about her current research on whether companies’ international activities are connected to gender (in)equality in their hiring practices.