Anna Stansbury

Anna Stansbury is the Class of 1948 Career Development Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management, with core faculty status at MIT’s Institute for Work and Employment Research. Her research focuses on labor and macroeconomic inequality, employer concentration, worker power decline, and minimum wage compliance. She holds a BA from Cambridge University, an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, and MA/PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Notable awards include the 2024 Upjohn Early Career Award and 2021 Upjohn Dissertation Prize. She teaches courses on labor markets and policy, earning recognition as a top educator.

Research interests emphasize power dynamics in labor markets, including monopsony, unions, and socioeconomic disparities. Recent work explores employer concentration’s impact on wages and regional inequality. She is affiliated with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and IZA. Publications include analyses of worker power’s macroeconomic effects, minimum wage compliance incentives, and class gaps in academic progression.

Awards highlight her policy-relevant contributions, such as studies on labor law enforcement and corporate mergers’ labor impacts. Teaching emphasizes critical engagement with economic systems, blending theory and real-world applications. Her work bridges academia and policy, advocating for equitable labor market reforms.