Kevin Lang

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Kevin Lang is affiliated with the following schools: Boston University, Université de Montréal, University of California, Irvine, University of British Columbia, University of California, San Diego, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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PhD Economics Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Kevin Lang is a professor of economics at Boston University. He is also an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research . He is the author of Poverty and Discrimination and over 100 papers and articles on topics in Labor Economics.

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Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data (2007) (1289)
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program (2004) (691)
A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory (1984) (498)
A Language Theory of Discrimination (1986) (410)
Are all Economic Hypotheses False? (1992) (295)
Education and Labor-Market Discrimination (2006) (240)
Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws (1986) (229)
Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition (2000) (209)
Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets (1987) (207)
Does Growing Up With A Parent Absent Really Hurt (2001) (201)
The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales (2014) (190)
Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle (1989) (177)
The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory (1988) (159)
The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications (2018) (158)
The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results (2012) (150)
Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers (2005) (148)
Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence (1992) (139)
Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems (1988) (126)
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non�?Random (2013) (124)
Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education (1993) (124)
The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates (1988) (121)
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing (2006) (107)
Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment (1991) (99)
The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence (1998) (93)
The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications (2004) (90)
The Intake Dispositions of Juvenile Offenders (1985) (90)
Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior (1998) (88)
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital (1987) (78)
Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2009) (67)
Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence (1995) (66)
Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent? (1991) (66)
An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka (1991) (64)
Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials (1986) (62)
The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel (2006) (62)
School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE (2009) (62)
The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results (2013) (60)
Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? (1992) (60)
Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective (2020) (57)
The Contractors' Game (1991) (55)
School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect (2016) (54)
Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets (1987) (53)
Bargaining Piecemeal Or All At Once (2001) (52)
Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000 (2012) (52)
The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada (1995) (52)
Poverty and Discrimination (2007) (47)
EFFICIENCY WAGE MODELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT: A SECOND VIEW (1990) (44)
Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member (2010) (42)
Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition (2004) (41)
Unemployment and the Structure of Labor Markets. (1988) (40)
Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium (1986) (39)
Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: a Reconsideration of the Evidence (1985) (39)
The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 (2013) (35)
Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges (2012) (32)
Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased (2016) (31)
Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws (1987) (31)
Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus (1996) (30)
Language and economists′ theories of discrimination (1993) (24)
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe V Wade (2013) (24)
The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration (2013) (23)
The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand (1998) (21)
Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment (1992) (19)
Are Efficiency Wages Efficient? (1986) (18)
Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore (2015) (16)
Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges. NBER Working Paper No. 18201. (2012) (14)
Discrimination and Worker Evaluation (2015) (13)
Why Do Firms Monitor Workers (1990) (13)
The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results (2018) (13)
Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis (1987) (12)
Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies (1993) (12)
Wage Announcements with a Continuum of Worker Types (2003) (12)
The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants (2009) (10)
Why was there mandatory retirement (1989) (8)
Monitoring for Worker Quality (2017) (8)
A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory (1987) (7)
The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications (2003) (7)
How Discrimination and Bias Shape Outcomes (2020) (7)
Kindergarten Entry Age and Academic Performance (2008) (5)
Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights (2015) (5)
Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage (2007) (5)
Unions, firms, and the return to seniority (1984) (5)
Poverty and the Labor Market (2012) (4)
Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation (2020) (4)
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders (1987) (4)
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders (1987) (4)
A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers (2016) (4)
Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply (1988) (3)
The Determinants of Teachers ’ Occupational Choice ∗ VERY PRELIMINARY (2017) (3)
The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers (2019) (3)
Undocumented Mexican Born Workers in the U.S.: How Many, How Permanent? (1991) (3)
The Determinants of Teachers&Apos; Occupational Choice (2018) (3)
Trade liberalisation and the New Zealand labour market (1989) (3)
National Union Leader Performance and Turnover in Building Trades (1986) (2)
Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact? (2021) (2)
Perspective on “Ageing and the skill portfolio: Evidence from job based skill measures” by Audra Bowlus, Hiroaki Mori and Chris Robinson (2016) (2)
Economic sociology and social economics: Where are we now? (1994) (2)
Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated (1998) (2)
Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills (2017) (2)
The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs (2021) (1)
Incentivizing schooling for learning : (2015) (1)
Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks (2022) (1)
Pay for Percentile, Working Paper 2009-09 (2009) (1)
Effort and Wages: Evidence from the Payroll Tax (2020) (1)
Inference with Di ff erence in Di ff erences and Other Panel Data (2006) (1)
Why Was There Mandatory Retirement? Or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts (1987) (1)
Too Family Friendly ? The Consequences of Parents ' Right to Request Part-Time Work (2017) (1)
Minimum Wage Laws and the Distribution of Employment. (1995) (1)
A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets (2011) (1)
Chapter 11. Race Discrimination in the Labor Market (2007) (1)
Chapter 13. Race Discrimination in Customer Markets and the Judicial System (2007) (0)
Chapter 3. The Evolution of Poverty Policy (2007) (0)
Chapter 7. Concentrated Poverty (2007) (0)
Chapter 2. Who Is Poor (2007) (0)
OF DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES (2010) (0)
Effort and Wages : Evidence from the 1 Payroll Tax 2 (2018) (0)
Chapter 12. Race Discrimination and Education (2007) (0)
Chapter 5. Labor Market Policies (2007) (0)
Chapter 9. Welfare Reform (2007) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES JUDGE PEER EFFECTS IN THE COURTHOUSE (2020) (0)
Chapter 6. Family Composition (2007) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES EVALUATING STUDENT OUTCOMES AT FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES (2014) (0)
Running head: IS FADEOUT A SCALING ARTEFACT Is Intervention Fadeout a Scaling Artefact? (2019) (0)
Chapter 14. Sex Discrimination (2007) (0)
Chapter 15. Conclusion: An Agenda to Decrease Poverty and Discrimination? (2007) (0)
ESTIMATING A FIRM'S AGE-PRODUCTIVITY PROFILE USING THE VALUE OF WORKERS' EARNINGS (2005) (0)
Obsolescence Rents : Teamsters , Truckers , and Impending Innovations ∗ (2022) (0)
Chapter 4. Trends in Poverty (2007) (0)
Estimating the Nature of Technological Change: Exploiting Shifts in Skill Use Within and Between Occupations (2022) (0)
Putting Test Scores on an Interval Scale-PIAAC Methodological Seminar – the Use of Test Scores in Secondary Analysis (2019) (0)
Pay for Percentile; (2009) (0)
Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks (2019) (0)
Chapter 10. Discrimination: Theory (2007) (0)
Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination (2007) (0)
The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing1 (2006) (0)
Chapter 8. Education and Education Reform (2007) (0)
. Some Concluding Remarks (2002) (0)
A TL AN TA The Effect of Social Entitlement Programs on Private Transfers : New Evidence of Crowding Out Kristopher (2010) (0)

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