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Kevin Lang

Laurence A. Bloom Professor of Economics

Boston University

Kevin Lang is a Professor of economics, specializing in labor and education issues, at Boston University and is a Research Associate or Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn), the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (University College, London) and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University). He was Vice-President (President in 2021-22) and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He was co-editor of Labour Economics, the journal of the European Association of Labour Economists, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics, its U.S. counterpart. He received an Olin Fellowship at the NBER and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship. He served on three National Research Council panels and its Board on Testing and Assessment. Education: BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (Oxford University), MSc in economics (l’Université de Montréal), PhD in economics (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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