Anna Stansbury

@annastansbury · Cambridge MA & London · joined 04 Apr 2009

Economist: Labo(u)r, Macro, Inequality || 🇬🇧 / 🇺🇸 || Ass't Prof @MITSloan @MIT_IWER || Nonres fellow @piie

21 378Followers

3 540Following

11 660Posts total

206.3KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views12 960this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %60.62%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.88%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	12 960	2 578	5.03×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	60.62%	7.77%	7.80×
Engagement rate	0.88%	1.47%	0.60×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

71.1K12 Jul

59.5K31 Aug

15.6K

10.3K

32.6K3 Sep

1.2K

6.2K

9.7K

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.27%12 Jul

0.97%31 Aug

0.39%

0.86%

1.07%3 Sep

0.40%

1.48%

0.89%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes62.8%1 147 in total

Reposts12.1%220 in total

Replies3.3%60 in total

Quotes1.3%24 in total

Bookmarks20.5%374 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

This is a great paper - which we discuss every year with the MBAs in my "People & Profits" course @MITSloan One really striking thing, which I think does *not* necessarily fit people's priors ... MBA managers' effects look basically the same for workers in the US or Denmar 9.7K views · 68 likes · 15 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is a great paper - which we discuss every year with the MBAs in my "People & Profits" course @MITSloan. One really striking thing, which I think does *not* necessarily fit people's priors ... MBA managers' effects look basically the same for workers in the US or Denmar 6.2K views · 75 likes · 12 reposts · 5 replies 03 Sep 2026 Transport & urban policy folks: With a feasible future of fleets of autonomous + electric vehicles (+ a clean grid), how should we be thinking differently about long-term intra-city transit investments? Are trams / rail less relevant? What should I read on this? 1.2K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 In 2018, our first test vehicles hit UK streets. Today, we’re launching the UK’s first supervised autonomous service with @Uber, continuing @wayve_ai's decade-long history of firsts. Request a ride today, London. https://t.co/MwcLFs9mR4 https://t.co/UEiKJcuLhT 32.6K views · 272 likes · 30 reposts · 36 replies 03 Sep 2026 This is a stellar paper on the incidence of corporate tax cuts. Important findings are - a big increase in investment after corporate tax cuts, which boosts growth - incidence mostly on shareholders and high income workers : no (direct) benefit showing up in median wage 10.3K views · 70 likes · 16 reposts · 2 replies 31 Aug 2026 Back-of-the-envelope MVPF: we estimate that $1 in corp tax cuts generates ~$1.47 in private income. Incidence: In the short-run, ~80% of gains flow to the top 10% of the income distribution Takeaway: Corp tax cuts increase economic growth, with highly uneven gains. 15.6K views · 46 likes · 10 reposts · 3 replies 31 Aug 2026 *When unions increase wages, who pays?* It's normally v hard to answer this Q: unions don't behave randomly, they respond to firm conditions, and detailed firm data is hard to get. Our setting in Norway tackles both... 🧵on our paper (@microsamonomics & @ALPWillen) https:// 59.5K views · 457 likes · 103 reposts · 8 replies 31 Aug 2026 Recently accepted by #QJE: “Who Pays for Unions?” by Dodini (@microsamonomics), Stansbury (@annastansbury), and Willen (@ALPWillen): https://t.co/G38BFQV0xs 71.1K views · 154 likes · 34 reposts · 3 replies 12 Jul 2026