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 Shulamit Kahn has been at Boston
University’s School of Management since 1987.
She received her Ph.D. from MIT in Economics in 1983, and taught at
the University of California, Irvine in the intervening years. Her specialty
is labor economics and human resources.
Her recent and ongoing research revolves around two major topics. The first is the careers of male and female
academics in science. Her present work
in this area [joint with Donna Ginther]
concentrates on academic careers in biomedicine and is being funded by
National Institute on Aging of the NIH. In
another stream of current research joint with Megan MacGarvie , Professor Kahn
is studying the contributions of foreign Ph.D. students to global knowledge
creation and diffusion, entrepreneurship and innovation. [The work on innovation is also joint with Donna Ginther.] This
work, funded by the National Science Foundation, has been presented at universities
and conferences around the world. As
part of her recent service to the University, she served on the BU College of
Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee and the BU Law School Dean Search
Committee. In service related to women
in academia, she sat on the American Economic Association’s Committee on the
Status of Women in the Economics Profession, was Chair of the Boston
University Faculty Council’s Committee on Diversity, and was a co-author of
“Major Findings of the 2006 Survey on Equity and Diversity at Boston
University.” She
is currently teaching primarily undergraduates and is coordinator for a core
SMG course on statistics/economics. Working Papers and Selected Book Chapters “How
Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science?” [joint with Megan J. MacGarvie]
Boston University School of Management Working Paper. June 2011. “Gender
Differences in Academic Promotion and Mobility at a Major Australian
University.” Boston University
School of Management Working Paper.
July 2011. "The
Effects of the Foreign Fulbright Program on Knowledge Creation in Science and
Engineering" [joint with Megan MacGarvie] In NBER 50th
Anniversary Conference Volume on the Rate and Direction of Inventive
Activity, 2011. “Women’s
Careers in Academic Social Science: Progress, Pitfalls and Plateaus.”
[joint with Donna Ginther] Alessandro Lanteri and Jack Vromen, eds. Forthcoming in The Economics of Economists -- Institutional Settings, Individual
Incentives, and Future Prospects. Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming. “Does
Science Promote Women? Evidence from
Academia 1973-2001" in Science
and Engineering Careers in the United States [joint with Donna Ginther]., Richard
Freeman and Daniel Goroff (eds). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 2009. The
Impact of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 on Electric Utilities and Coal
Mines: Evidence from the Stock Market.[joint with Christopher Knittel] April
2002. “Does Employer Monopsony
Power Increase Occupational Accidents? The Case of Kentucky Coal Mines”. NBER
Working Paper No. 3897, November 1991 Selected Published Works “Women
in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?” [joint with Donna K. Ginther]. Journal
of Economic Perspectives, 18(3), Summer 2004. "Large
Companies and the Use of Temporary Workers: Impacts on Financial Measures of
Performance" [joint with J. Heisler and
F. Foulkes] in S. Houseman and A. Nakamura.Working Time in Comparative
Perspective Volume II. Kalamazoo MI: Upjohn Institute, 2001. "Hours Constraints: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Implications" [joint with Kevin Lang] in Ging
Wong and Garnett Picot, Working Time in Comparative Perspective
Volume I. Kalamazoo MI: Upjohn Institute, 2001. "The
Bottom-Line Impact of Nonstandard Jobs on Companies' Profitability and Productivity."in Francoise Carre, Marianne Ferber, Lonnie Golden, Stephen Herzenberg, eds. Non-Standard Work: The Nature
and Challenges of Emerging Employment Arrangements. Madison WI:
IRRA, 2001. "Falling
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: Has Contingent Work Had an
Impact?" Industrial Relations Research Association Proceedings
of the Fiftieth Annual Meeting 1998, 259-267. "The
Effect of Minimum Wage Laws on the Distribution of Employment: Theory and
Evidence.” [joint with Kevin Lang] Journal
of Public Economics 69(1), July 1998, 67-82. "Evidence
of Nominal Wage Stickiness from Microdata." The American Economic Review. LXXXVII:5,
December 1997, 993-1008. "Hours
Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus." [joint with Kevin Lang] Canadian
Journal of Economics XXIX(Special Issue),
April 1996. S71-S75. "The
Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence
from Canada." [joint with Kevin Lang] Canadian Journal of Economics XXVIII 4a, November 1995,
914-928. "Women
in the Economics Profession." Journal of Economics Perspectives
IX(4), Fall 1995, 193-205. "Gender
Differences in Academic Career Paths of Economists." American
Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings) 83(2), May 1993, 52-56. "Economic
Implications of Public-Sector Comparable Worth: A Case Study of San
Jose." Industrial Relations 31(2), Spring 1992, 270-91. "The
Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates." [joint with
Kevin Lang] Review of Economics and
Statistics 73(4), November 1991, 605-611. "What
Occupational Safety Tells Us About Union Political Power."
The Rand Journal of Economics 21(3),
Autumn 1990, 481-89. "Female
Mobility and the Returns to Seniority: Should EEO Policy Be Concerned with
Promotion?" [joint with Harriet Griesinger] American Economic Review (Papers
and Proceedings), 79(2), May 1989, 300-304. "Efficient
Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems." [joint with Kevin Lang] International
Economic Review 29(1), February
1988, 157-66. "Occupational
Safety and Worker Preferences: Is There a Marginal Worker?" The Review of Economics and Statistics
69(2), May 1987, 262-68. More Information View my CV EDUCATION Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 1983,
Economics. B.A. Barnard
College, Columbia University (1971), Urban Studies/Political Science. ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD 1996-present Associate
Professor (with tenure), Boston University School of Management 2009-2010 Visiting Scholar, University of
New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Sept.-Oct
2009 Visiting Scholar, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, Italy. 1994-1995 Visiting Scholar, Sloan School of
Management, MIT 1987-1995
Assistant Professor, Boston
University School of Management, Department of Finance and
Economics 1981-1987 Assistant Professor, University
of California, Irvine, Department of Economics Grants and Awards ·
September
2009 – present. Co-Principal
Investigator. National Institutes of
Health. Economic Explanations for
Gender Differences in Biomedical Careers.
With Donna Ginther. ·
2007-present. Co-Principal Investigator. National Science Foundation. Contributions of Foreign Students to
Knowledge Creation and Diffusion” with Donna Ginther
and Megan MacGarvie. ·
1994-1995:
Principal investigator: Human
Resources Policy Institute. Grant:
"The Impact of Out-Sourcing and Contract Staffing: An Economic
Analysis." ·
1993-1996: Principal investigator: National
Science Foundation Grant SBR-9223131, "Gender Differences in Academic
Career Paths Among Economists." ·
1991: Co-investigator: U.S. Department of
Labor (The Women's Bureau) "Evaluation of Employer Provided Child Care
Programs." ·
1987-1988:
Principal Investigator: National Science Foundation Grant SES-8707422,
Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours" with Kevin Lang. SELECTED
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
·
Director, Boston
University School of Management Honors Program, 2003 – present. ·
Coordinator, Sophomore
Required Course on Modeling/Managerial Economics, 1999 - present. ·
Member, Search
Committee for a Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Boston University,
2006 – 2007. ·
Member, Search
Committee for a Dean of the School of Law of Boston University, 2005-2006. ·
Member, Boston University Faculty
Council’s Committee on Equity and Inclusion, 2004 – 2006. ·
Chair
of the Boston University Faculty Council Committee on
Diversity and Affirmative Action, 2000 – 2002. ·
Member, Board of Directors of the
American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the
Economics Profession (CSWEP), 1988 – 1991. Past Consulting ·
Medical Scientists (evaluating non-medical costs and benefits of
medical interventions). ·
Union of Concerned Scientists (cost/benefit of CAFE standards,
pro bono). ·
Center for Work and Family (econometric modeling design for
evaluating benefits of employer child care) ·
Charles River Associates (economic consulting) ·
Simat, Helliesen and Eichner
(transportation consultants). Shulamit Kahn /
kahn@bu.edu |
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