Why even a PhD isn’t enough to erase the effects of class, with Anna Stansbury

为何即便是博士学位也无法抹去阶级的影响——与安娜·斯坦伯里对话

The Economics Show

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2024-10-07

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Race and gender have dominated headlines about economic outcomes in the past decades, but class … not so much. Class is often invisible, hard to describe and awkward to talk about. Anna Stansbury, an assistant professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, sought to shed light on class in the US in a recent paper, co-written with Kyra Rodriguez. They found that independently of race or gender, people’s family circumstances can hold them back. And that is even after they have done enough work to get a “Dr” in front of their name. Today on the show, Soumaya and Anna discuss the problem and how to fix it. Soumaya Keynes writes a column each week for the Financial Times. You can find it here Subscribe to Soumaya's show on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you listen. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • You've heard about racial inequality.

  • You have heard about the glass ceiling.

  • Today we are going to be talking about something that in the US hasn't had as much,

  • the class ceiling.

  • A recent working paper argues that we really need to think about it

  • because independently of race or gender,

  • people's family circumstances seem to be holding them back.

  • And that's the case even after they have done enough work to get a doctor in front of their name.

  • This week we are going to talk about the finding that even a PhD isn't enough to erase the effects of class.

  • This is the Economics show with Sumaya Keynes.

  • I'm joined today by Anna Stansbury of MIT's Sloan School of Management and one of that study's authors.

  • Anna. Hello.

  • Hi. Thank you for having me.

  • Thanks so much for being here.

  • Okay, so first question.

  • You are a Brit and you live in America.

  • So on a scale of 1 to 10,

  • how much of a problem do you think that Brits perceive class based inequalities?

  • Seven.

  • Seven. Okay, okay.

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