Kevin Lang

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• Boston University → Department of Economics (weight: 78%)
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  • location: Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) (weight: 10%)
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  • location: Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
• Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (weight: 10%)
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  • location: Bonn, Germany
• Boston University → Department of Economics → Institute for Economic Development (weight: 1%)
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  • location: Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
• Boston University → Department of Economics → Industry Studies Program (ISP) (weight: 1%)
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  • location: Boston, Massachusetts (United States)

Research profile

author of:

• Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
  by Eli Berman & Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?
  by William T. Dickens & Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin Lang
• Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets
  by Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens
• Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts
  by Kevin Lang
• Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital
  by Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang
• A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates
  by Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang
• An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?
  by Kevin Lang
• Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
  by Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens
• Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies
  by Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens
• Language-Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition
  by Eli Berman & Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
  by Joshua D. Angrist & Kevin Lang
• The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination
  by Kevin Lang
• Are All Economic Hypotheses False?
  by J. Bradford De Long & Kevin Lang
• A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory.
  by Dickens, William T. & Lang, Kevin
• The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory.
  by Dickens, William T. & Lang, Kevin
• Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?
  by Lang, Kevin
• The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada.
  by Shulamit B. Kahn & Kevin Lang
• Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus.
  by Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang
• Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated?
  by Kevin Lang & Jay Zagorsky
• Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once?
  by Lang, Kevin & Rosenthal, Robert W.
• Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems.
  by Kahn, Shulamit & Lang, Kevin
• Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws.
  by Lang, Kevin
• Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply.
  by Lang, Kevin
• Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View.
  by Lang, Kevin & Kahn, Shulamit
• The Contractors' Game
  by Kevin Lang & Robert W. Rosenthal
• Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence
  by Kevin Lang & Peter-John Gordon
• Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials.
  by Lang, Kevin & Ruud, Paul A.
• Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium.
  by Dickens, William T. & Lang, Kevin
• The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates.
  by Kahn, Shulamit & Lang, Kevin
• Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior.
  by Galizzi, Monica & Lang, Kevin
• The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand.
  by Lang, Kevin
• Are All Economic Hypotheses False?
  by De Long, J. Bradford & Lang, Kevin
• The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications
  by Kevin Lang & Sumon Majumdar
• Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition
  by Berman, Eli & Lang, Kevin & Siniver, Erez
• Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
  by Angrist, Joshua & Lang, Kevin
• The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence
  by Lang, Kevin & Kahn, Shulamit
• A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory
  by William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang
• How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
  by Joshua D. Angrist & Kevin Lang
• Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition
  by Lang, Kevin & Jian, Tianlun
• The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination
  by Kevin Lang
• Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis
  by William T. Dickens & Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin Lang & Lawrence H. Summers
• THE PRICING OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS WHEN MARKETS DO NOT CLEAR: THEORY AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS
  by Kevin Lang & Sumon Majumdar
• Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
  by Joshua D. Angrist & Kevin Lang
• Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
  by Kevin Lang & Hong Kang
• Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove & William T. Dickens
• Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove & William T. Dickens
• Education and Labor-Market Discrimination
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove
• The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
  by Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing
  by Adam Ashcraft & Kevin Lang
• An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders
  by Lang, Kevin & Bell, Duran
• Why was there mandatory retirement?
  by Lang, Kevin
• Education and Labor-Market Discrimination
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove
• Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
  by Kevin Lang & Hong Kang
• Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data
  by Stephen G. Donald & Kevin Lang
• THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL
  by Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination
  by Kevin Lang
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• The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Goel, Deepti & Lang, Kevin
• Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent?
  by George J. Borjas & Richard B. Freeman & Kevin Lang
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• THE RETURN TO ENGLISH IN A NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRY: RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS AND NATIVE ISRAELIS IN ISRAEL
  by Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
  by Rashmi Barua & Kevin Lang
• The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel
  by Lang Kevin & Siniver Erez
• Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member
  by Kevin Lang
• Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital
  by Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang
• Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?
  by Kevin Lang & Jay L. Zagorsky
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education
  by Lang, Kevin
• Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member
  by Kevin Lang
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
  by Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• Education and Labor Market Discrimination
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove
• Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
  by Kevin Lang & Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets
  by Gautam Bose & Kevin Lang
• A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets
  by Gautam Bose & Kevin Lang
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets
  by Kevin Lang & Gautam Bose
• Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
  by Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver
• RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE LABOR MARKET: THEORY AND EMPIRICS
  by Kevin Lang & Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann
• School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE
  by Kevin Lang & Rashmi Barua
• The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom
  by Kevin Lang & Adam Ashcraft
• Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage
  by Kevin Lang
• Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges
  by Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein
• Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle
  by Summers, Lawrence H. & Dickens, William T. & Katz, Lawrence F. & Lang, Kevin
• Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel
  by Lang, Kevin & Siniver, Erez
• Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000
  by Kevin Lang & Ana Nuevo-Chiquero
• Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
  by Kevin Lang & Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann
• The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results
  by Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein
• The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration
  by Olesya Baker & Kevin Lang
• The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade
  by Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein
• The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non‐random
  by Adam Ashcraft & Iván Fernández‐Val & Kevin Lang
• The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results
  by Lang, Kevin & Weinstein, Russell
• The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore
  by Huailu Li & Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong
• Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights
  by Kevin Lang
• Discrimination and Worker Evaluation
  by Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang
• A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers
  by Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein
• Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore
  by Huailu Li & Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong
• Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws
  by Kevin Lang & David Kropp
• Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment
  by Kevin Lang
• A Language Theory of Discrimination
  by Kevin Lang
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Goel, Deepti & Lang, Kevin
• Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type
  by Kevin Lang & Michael Manove
• The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade
  by Kevin Lang Jr. & Russell Weinstein Jr.
• Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
  by Rania Gihleb & Kevin Lang
• Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
  by Gihleb, Rania & Lang, Kevin
• School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect
  by Rashmi Barua & Kevin Lang
• Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills
  by Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang
• Monitoring for Worker Quality
  by Gautam Bose & Kevin Lang
• Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased
  by Kevin Lang & Rania Gihleb
• The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications
  by Ariella Kahn-Lang & Kevin Lang
• The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice
  by Kevin Lang & Maria Dolores Palacios
• The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore
  by Huailu Li & Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong
• Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
  by Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang
• Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle.
  by Dickens, William T. & Katz, Lawrence F. & Lang, Kevin & Summers, Lawrence H.
• The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales
  by Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang
• The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers
  by Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein
• Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
  by Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong & Huailu Li & Haibo Xu
• Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax
  by Kevin Lang
• Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation
  by Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang
• Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
  by Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong & Huailu Li & Haibo Xu
• How Discrimination and Bias Shapes Outcomes
  by Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer & Kevin Lang
• Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks
  by Lang, Kevin & Leong, Kaiwen & Li, Huailu & Xu, Haibo
• Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective
  by Kevin Lang & Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer
• The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications
  by Ariella Kahn-Lang & Kevin Lang
• Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective
  by Kevin Lang & Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer