Anna Stansbury is an assistant professor in work and organization studies at MIT Sloan and on the core faculty of MIT’s Institute for Work and Employment Research. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
She specializes in labor and macroeconomics, with a particular focus on the role of market power and outside options in the labor market. She previously worked as a research assistant for Larry Summers, Martin Feldstein, and the Harvard Center for International Development.
Stansbury has a B.A. in economics from Cambridge University, an M.A. in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Funded Research
Authored by Anna Stansbury
Employer concentration suppresses wages for several million U.S. workers: antitrust and labor market regulators should respond (opens in a new tab)
Issue Briefs JAN 26, 2021
By: Anna Stansbury
Anna Stansbury’s Working Papers
Socioeconomic Diversity of Economics PhDs (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JUN 29, 2022
By: Robert Schultz, Anna Stansbury
Do US Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the FLSA and the NLRA? (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers SEP 23, 2021
By: Anna Stansbury
Employer Concentration and Outside Options (opens in a new tab)
Working Papers JAN 26, 2021
By: Gregor Schubert, Anna Stansbury, Bledi Taska
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