Nina Roussille

Nina Roussille is the Gordon K. Lister and Donald K. Lister Career Development Assistant Professor of Economics at MIT and concurrently serves as Executive Director of the Hub for Equal Representation at the London School of Economics. She joined MIT’s Economics Department in July 2023 after completing her PhD at UC Berkeley and a post-doctoral fellowship at LSE.

Education

• PhD in Economics, University of California, Berkeley (2021)

Research Interests

Nina’s work sits at the intersection of labor economics and gender economics. She studies how information frictions, firm market power, and institutional constraints create and perpetuate wage inequality. Current themes include:

• Gender gaps in salary negotiations and the determinants of the "ask gap"
• Worker misperceptions about outside options and their implications for monopsony power
• How rising wage inequality erodes labor movements and collective bargaining
• Intersectional dynamics inside organizations, especially for Black women
• Policy evaluation of workweek reduction and offshore tax evasion

Publications & Impact

Across her recent articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review (R&R), and Management Science, Nina combines large-scale administrative or platform data with field experiments and structural modeling to illuminate how labor markets actually work. Her findings on the gender ask gap have been featured in Bloomberg, BBC, and Brookings, influencing both academic debates and policy discussions.

Professional Service & Grants

In addition to her faculty role, Nina actively mentors junior scholars through the LSE Applicant Mentoring Programme and regularly hires predoctoral RAs for multi-year projects on inequality and labor-market institutions. She maintains office hours for MIT PhD students and advertises research-assistant openings on her website and Twitter feed.

Labs & Teams

At MIT, Nina is affiliated with the Department of Economics and collaborates closely with the Hub for Equal Representation at LSE, an interdisciplinary initiative that brings together economists, psychologists, and organizational sociologists to promote workplace equity.