Anna Stansbury
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Economist: Labo(u)r, Macro, Inequality || Ass't Prof @MITSloan @MIT_IWER || Nonres fellow @piie
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📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification 🧵 w/
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& Michael Davies
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Great opportunity!!
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Centre for Cities
13 days ago
🆕Our new research will explore how thinking spatially about the minimum wage can help labour market policy to function in the UK’s diverse economic geography. Book your place at our launch event with
@annastansbury.bsky.social
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@nyecominetti.bsky.social
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Rob Johnson
13 days ago
Event launched! Come join CfC,
@annastansbury.bsky.social
and
@nyecominetti.bsky.social
to discuss what a national minimum wage means for UK cities and how this should impact its future trajectory 👇
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Report launch - Pay check: The minimum wage in British cities - Centre for Cities
Join Centre for Cities for the launch a new report on the impact of minimum wage in different labour markets across the country.
https://www.centreforcities.org/event/report-launch-pay-check-minimum-wage-in-british-cities/
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After the introduction of the German minimum wage, workers in low-wage occupations reported increases in work pressure. This reflects having to work faster, more pressure to perform, more need to multitask. Interesting new working paper by Nagler &
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Resolution Foundation
about 2 months ago
Nearly a million young people in the UK are neither earning, nor learning.
@nyecominetti.bsky.social
spoke on a recent episode of High Resolution about how the relationship between health and work might be more reciprocal than many think. Listen here ⤵️
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Resolution Foundation
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This pay penalty - worth over £2,800 a year - is significant, completely unjustified and needs to be tackled, says
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. The next stage of our research will explore why it occurs - could it be access to internships, social capital for example?
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Resolution Foundation
about 2 months ago
Speaking at our event
@annastansbury.bsky.social
says the striking new finding from our research is that two people getting the same grade for the same degree at the same university at the same time still face big earnings gap ten years later just because one of them experienced child poverty.
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Julia Diniz
about 2 months ago
Today we discussed new research from
@resolutionfoundation.org
co-authored with
@gthwaites.bsky.social
@annastansbury.bsky.social
and Richmond Egyei on the long shadow that deep poverty in childhood casts over the earnings of graduates in the labour market. Thread below on what we found …
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Important findings! Understanding franchising in detail is crucial for understanding many parts of the low wage labor market, and this team keeps producing papers that hugely advance our knowledge
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We will be launching our new research tomorrow at
@resolutionfoundation.org
We find that in the UK, even when comparing two people who graduate from the same uni degree, with the same grade, socioeconomic background still affects later life earnings Come in person or to the webinar 👇
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Our research on regional inequality was featured on the BBC Today programme, focusing on how to boost the UK's non-London "second tier" cities. Listen from 2:39 (w/ Ed Balls & Dan Turner)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today - 19/03/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sr41
about 2 months ago
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Scott Littlehale
about 2 months ago
Interesting research on California minimum wage increases. The summary says that the raises are associated with two additional workplace injuries per 1,000 workers. But the estimated welfare trade-offs still favor the raises. Solution: pair raises with OSH standards & enforcement.
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Anna Stansbury
Upjohn Institute
about 2 months ago
A new working paper co-authored by
@annastansbury.bsky.social
and supported by the Upjohn Institute’s ECRA award suggests that raising the minimum wage has an unexpected side effect: higher rates of workplace injuries for low-wage workers. Read more at:
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
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Higher minimum wages bring an unexpected cost: more workplace injuries
https://www.upjohn.org/research-highlights/higher-minimum-wages-bring-unexpected-cost-more-workplace-injuries
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📢New WP: Minimum Wages and Workplace Injuries Using California state and local minimum wage increases 2000-2019, we find minimum wage hikes increase workplace injury rates for low-wage workers. A plausible mechanism is work intensification 🧵 w/
@rjisungpark.bsky.social
& Michael Davies
about 2 months ago
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Anna Stansbury
Resolution Foundation
about 2 months ago
🗓️ Next Tuesday We'll be launching new research on graduate social mobility in the UK and discussing next week with
@annastansbury.bsky.social
, Imran Rasul, Anvar Sarygulov,
@juliadelldiniz.bsky.social
,
@mikebrewerecon.bsky.social
Tickets here ➡️
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Per Engzell
2 months ago
How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source:
lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
2 months ago
Socioeconomic background is notably absent from most research on elite career progression. In their blog post, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar
@annastansbury.bsky.social
and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley discuss their forthcoming paper, "Class Background Matters for Career Progression."
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Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond - Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and Kyra Rodriguez of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap ...
https://stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/class-background-matters-for-career-progression-in-academia-and-beyond/
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Blog post summarizing my research with Kyra Rodriguez on the class gap!
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CRUCIALLY, this is a non-London problem We calculated the grad wage premium for each UK region and nation a few years ago, and you see declining graduate wage premia in every English region except London If we want to diagnose why the UK is such an outlier the answer is in the regional story
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3 months ago
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What’s next on my reading list: new* books from three of my favorite social scientists *(2025!)
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@maxkasy.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Has someone studied this? It seems eminently feasible!
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The other outcome that I've seen - when there are so many As students at the very top can't distinguish themselves through their classwork. Going really deep on a class and writing a truly superb paper won't change grade --> increased incentive to distinguish through extra curriculars.
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One of the worst outcomes of grade inflation is that it discourages students pushing themselves. College should be about taking a class that's a bit too hard for you, or in a field you don't know much about... but the risk of a B when so many get straight As is real. Safer to stick to what you know.
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Jason Furman
3 months ago
I will be enthusiastically supporting faculty legislation to cap the number of A's at Harvard at 20% (plus a bit). The collective action problem that has driven grades higher & higher over time is increasingly problematic. I hope other institutions consider similar steps.
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Labor Market Competition symposium in the JEP-- all articles look like a must-read.
3 months ago
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Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
3 months ago
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
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Sam Friedman
3 months ago
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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Per Engzell
3 months ago
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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Economic returns to reproducing parents' field of study
Research on the influence of family background on college graduates' earnings has not considered the importance of the match between parents' and children's field of study. Using a novel design based...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.13090
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Laurette
3 months ago
Yes, class is insufficiently studied and compensated for, compared to race and gender.
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John Holbein
3 months ago
"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."
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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...🧵
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Giuseppe Ippedico
4 months ago
📢 🏹 Call for Papers 🏹📢 3rd workshop in Labour Economics at Nottingham GEP When: June 1-2, 2026 Keynotes: Gordon Dahl (UCSD) and
@annastansbury.bsky.social
(MIT) Small, in-person workshop; plenty of interactions! 🗓️ Submit by March 1 🗓️ Link:
tinyurl.com/3kdpb64a
#EconSky
#EconConf
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This should be a super workshop. Submit below
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I am very much looking forward to the Nottingham Labour Economics workshop this summer! Submissions invited 👇
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4 months ago
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very cool job opp!
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Mark G. Sheppard
4 months ago
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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The *hidden curriculum* was a VERY frequently mentioned topic here, including: how academic publishing worked, how to negotiate contracts, get pay raises, how tenure worked, how to approach faculty, how to apply for awards, how the academic hierarchy worked...
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While many, many respondents from less advantaged backgrounds talked about these factors, most academics from advantaged backgrounds did *not* identify cultural capital as a privilege. Shout out to sociologists and poli sci who were (unsurprisingly) the most frequent exception
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One key theme was **cultural capital** Norms of speech, dress and behavior were very often raised. These "upper middle class" or "elite East Coast" norms were factors that made people feel excluded not just from first-gen or low-income backgrounds, but also from middle class
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Iván Canzio
5 months ago
Really interesting (and necessary) thread!! It seems that good mentorship can significantly reduce barriers for many low-SES PhD students. We, as postdocs, can also help reduce these barriers by informally sharing our knowledge about norms and customs in academia with our younger colleagues.
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In our research on socioeconomic background in academia, we ran a survey. Over 2,000 faculty members responded (thanks if you were one!) Social & cultural capital showed up time and again as key issues. A few findings you might be interested in...🧵
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One thing I haven't seen in discussions about the UK minimum wage increase: the higher the bite, the greater the incentive for non-compliance In research w
@resolutionfoundation.org
in 2020 we found that the current system of penalties and enforcement was insufficient to ensure compliance
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Tight labor markets in the last decade reduced US community college enrollment. Super interesting pic here showing just how countercyclical community college enrollment is (as compared to basically non-cyclical 4 year college enrollment) From
@joshua-goodman.com
& Winkelman new NBER WP
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When I was in high school/undergrad I found these particularly interesting/thought provoking: The Worldly Philosophers The Affluent Society The Ascent of Money The Return of Depression Economics Development as Freedom Dead Aid The Bottom Billion
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Importantly, making unfair dismissal a "Day One" right would likely have been counterproductive for workers. It would induce firms not to "take a chance" on candidates who seem risky or have unusual profiles. ...
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Resolution Foundation
5 months ago
The Government is right to keep but reduce ‘qualifying periods’ for unfair dismissal protection. Making unfair dismissal a ‘day one’ right would have taken the UK from one internation extreme to another.
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Lisa Spantig
6 months ago
"28 more effective than cash transfers in a baseline scenario and 3732 (!!!) times in an optimistic scenario" It's early in the evaluation process, but still: Malengo is such a cool program!
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Jakob Schneebacher
6 months ago
ICYMI given today's focus on the budget: the UK government has today also published a working paper on options for reform of non-compete agreements. Responses to the specific options set out therein (statutory limits, size cutoffs and an outright ban), can be submitted until 18 February. 1/2
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Working paper on options for reform of non-compete clauses in employment contracts
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reform-of-non-compete-clauses-in-employment-contracts-working-paper/working-paper-on-options-for-reform-of-non-compete-clauses-in-employment-contracts
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Jakob and the CMA have done really superb economic research over the last years - this is a great "best of" thread
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