Economist Anna Stansbury to Join IWER Faculty

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Economist Anna Stansbury is joining MIT Sloan’s Work and Organization Studies Group as an Assistant Professor this September, and she will also be part of the faculty of the MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER).

Stansbury, who earned her PhD in economics from Harvard in May, is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. She earned a BA in economics from Cambridge University and a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Stansbury’s research focuses on topics in labor and macroeconomics, particularly on issues to do with inequality, power, and institutions in the labor market. In recent work, she has studied the extent of employer concentration in the US labor market, the macroeconomic effects of the decline of worker power in the US, and the incentives for minimum wage non-compliance in the US and the UK.

“We are delighted that Anna is joining the Work and Organizations group and will be an active contributor to the IWER community,” said Erin L. Kelly, who is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan as well as Co-Director of IWER. “It was clear immediately that her work was a wonderful fit with IWER’s mission.”

The MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) is a multidisciplinary research and teaching unit that is located within the MIT Sloan School of Management and has run its own PhD program since 1937.

IWER’s mission is to conduct and disseminate cutting-edge research that improves the lives of workers and their loved ones and that guides managers in crafting a successful and inclusive future of work. IWER has long played a leadership role in influencing scholarship and practice related to work, labor and employment relations, diversity in the workplace, technology and analytics, and larger questions of inequality.