Anna Maria Mayda has been an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University since 2003, with a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and the School of Foreign Service. Her research mainly focuses on the political economy of trade policy and immigration policy. A major aim of Anna Maria's research is to understand the determinants - labor-market, welfare-state and non-economic determinants - of individual attitudes towards trade and immigration across countries (see, for example, "Why are some people (and countries) more protectionist than others?" (joint with Dani Rodrik), "Who is against immigration? A cross-country investigation of individual attitudes towards immigrants," and "Individual attitudes towards immigrants: Welfare-state determinants across countries" (joint with Giovanni Facchini)). Anna Maria has also worked on preferential trade agreements, the most-favored-nation clause, international trade negotiations, and the determinants of international migration flows. More recently, Anna Maria has been working on the role played by interest groups in shaping U.S. migration policy.
 

Anna Maria Mayda is native of Italy, where she studied Economics and Statistics as an undergraduate. She received her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 2003. Anna Maria is a Research Fellow at IZA, a Research Affiliate at CEPR and an External Fellow at Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM).