Anna Stansbury

I'm an economist with interests in labor and macro economics. My work is particularly focused on issues to do with power and institutions in the labor market -- like monopsony (here), unions (here, here), and the minimum wage (here). I also study labor market disparities by socioeconomic background (here, here).

I'm an Assistant Professor at MIT Sloan, on the core faculty of MIT's Institute for Work and Employment Research, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's Shaping the Future of Work Initiative. Outside MIT, I am a Nonresident Senior Fellow at PIIE, a Research Affiliate at IZA, and an Affiliated Scholar at the Stone Center at CUNY. I received my PhD in Economics from Harvard in 2021. My dissertation was awarded the first-place prize in the Upjohn Institute's Dissertation Award for the "best PhD dissertation on employment-related issues". I also have a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and a BA in Economics from Cambridge.

At MIT Sloan, I teach 15.662 People and Profits and 15.677 Labor Markets and Employment Policy. I received an MIT Sloan Outstanding Teacher Award in 2022 and was in Poets & Quants' "40 under 40" best MBA professors list in 2023.

*New!*: The Class Gap in Career Progression
& Pitchfork Economics podcast & Financial Times podcast

You can find my CV here