Anna Stansbury
Economist: Labo(u)r, Macro, Inequality || Ass't Prof @MITSloan @MIT_IWER || Nonres fellow @piie
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- A new WP that uses data from U.S. academic jobs shows that a person's socioeconomic background is an important determinant not just of their career starting point, but of their career progression. Read the WP on the academia class gap by @annastansbury.bsky.social & Kyra Rodriguez. bit.ly/4ab6xRs
- Literally the most important empirical work on the top-heavy makeup of the economics academy, and how that background informs career progression. Wonderful work by @annastansbury.bsky.social and Kyra Rodriguez. Amazing WP and use of LIS data and @stone-lis.bsky.social. #EconSky
- A new WP that uses data from U.S. academic jobs shows that a person's socioeconomic background is an important determinant not just of their career starting point, but of their career progression. Read the WP on the academia class gap by @annastansbury.bsky.social & Kyra Rodriguez. bit.ly/4ab6xRs
- Here's a thread that you should all read, even though it will make you want to punch a wall
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- Great new paper! A similar study in the U.K. is long overdue. A lot of elite employers in the U.K. have begun to take class background seriously, but universities remain woefully behind
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- Little sad to me that the ML/AI community has actively worked hard to improve experience here and has made great strides in getting people to move over from x… and Econ has mainly failed :(
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- I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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View full threadYes. We also are not comparing to ppl with PhD parents precisely to avoid the “following parents” question. We compare to ppl with parent with a non PhD graduate degree (lawyers, doctors, MBAs, teachers mostly)
- Only tangentially related to your work Anna, but here's a neat paper on "following parents" and the economic returns to it, using siblings as a comparison onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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- 📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵
- Yes, class is insufficiently studied and compensated for, compared to race and gender.
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- "How do class gaps compare to race and gender gaps? Strikingly, we find that the class gaps in tenure-track academia are as large as or larger than analogous race or gender gaps."
- This is an important control. Even when you take into account research productivity, researchers with parents with a graduate degree have better tenure outcomes than researchers with parents with less than a graduate degree (college or less).
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- Good news against January blues: 🏹 the Nottingham GEP Labour Workshop is back! 🏹 Small in-person workshop; plenty of interactions. Submit your best labo(u)r paper! 🗣️ Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and Anna Stansbury (MIT) 📅 1-2 June 2026 🌍 University of Nottingham Apply by March 1st! ➡️ tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a
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- I think @annastansbury.bsky.social empirical work on the top-heavy socioeconomic makeup of the economics academy is bar-none the most important inward-facing conversation we have as academics; and is the most illuminating work in explaining the status quo policy preferences of economists. #EconSky
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