Institution:
Lecturer/Advisor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Interests:
Immigration and its effects on crime and family outcomes; impacts of immigration policy and enforcement; education economics; instructor quality and performance; student evaluations and bias

Description:
Anne Le Brun is a Lecturer/Advisor in Harvard’s Economics Department, where she teaches a course on immigration and a senior thesis research seminar and previously served as Head Section Leader for Ec 10 in 2015–16 and 2016–17. A labor economist, her research focuses on immigration—examining links between immigration and crime, how parents’ legal status shapes children’s outcomes, and how policy and enforcement affect immigrants and their families—as well as questions in education such as bias in student evaluations and how instructor performance influences students’ academic trajectories. She received a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley in 2008, a Master’s in International Development from Harvard in 2002, and a BA from Swarthmore College in 1997, worked in finance from 1997 to 2000, and taught as a lecturer at Wellesley College from 2008 to 2012 before joining Harvard.