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Dept. of Economics Boston University 270 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215
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Terminal Degree:1982 Economics Department; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

(78%) Department of Economics
Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.bu.edu/econ/
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(10%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
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(10%) Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Bonn, Germany
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(1%) Institute for Economic Development
Department of Economics
Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
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(1%) Industry Studies Program (ISP)
Department of Economics
Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts (United States)
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Working papers

  1. Cesar Luis Garro-Marin & Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang, 2024. "Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty?," NBER Working Papers 33005, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Costas Cavounidis & Qingyuan Chai & Kevin Lang & Raghav Malhotra, 2023. "Obsolescence Rents: Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations," NBER Working Papers 31743, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Liqun Zhuge & Kevin Lang, 2023. "Hukou and Guanxi: How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China," NBER Working Papers 31237, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Kevin Lang, 2023. "How Credible is the Credibility Revolution?," NBER Working Papers 31666, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Costas Cavounidis & Vittoria Dicandia & Kevin Lang & Raghav Malhotra, 2021. "The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs," NBER Working Papers 29302, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong & Huailu Li & Haibo Xu, 2020. "Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-338, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  7. Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2019. "The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers," NBER Working Papers 26319, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Ariella Kahn-Lang & Kevin Lang, 2018. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on ‘16 and Pregnant’ and Other Applications," NBER Working Papers 24857, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Kevin Lang & Maria Dolores Palacios, 2018. "The Determinants of Teachers' Occupational Choice," NBER Working Papers 24883, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2018. "The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results," NBER Working Papers 24853, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang, 2017. "Ben-Porath meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills," NBER Working Papers 23367, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Gihleb, Rania & Lang, Kevin, 2016. "Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased," IZA Discussion Papers 10413, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  13. Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2016. "A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers," NBER Working Papers 22387, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang, 2015. "Discrimination and Worker Evaluation," NBER Working Papers 21612, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2014. "The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales," NBER Working Papers 19950, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Olesya Baker & Kevin Lang, 2013. "The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration," NBER Working Papers 19182, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2013. "The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results," NBER Working Papers 19135, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2013. "The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v Wade," NBER Working Papers 19627, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2013. "The Black-White Education-Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7," NBER Working Papers 19243, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2012. "Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges," NBER Working Papers 18201, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2012. "The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results," NBER Working Papers 17960, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Kevin Lang & Gautam Bose, 2011. "A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2011-020, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  23. Kevin Lang & Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, 2011. "Racial Discrimination In The Labor Market: Theory And Empirics," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2011-019, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  24. Kevin Lang, 2010. "Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 143, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
  25. Kevin Lang & Adam Ashcraft, 2010. "The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Nonrandom," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2010-016, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  26. Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang, 2010. "Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants," Carlo Alberto Notebooks 148, Collegio Carlo Alberto.
  27. Kevin Lang & Rashmi Barua, 2010. "School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2010-019, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  28. Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver, 2010. "Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2010-017, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  29. Goel, Deepti & Lang, Kevin, 2009. "The Role of Social Ties in the Job Search of Recent Immigrants," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2009-12, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 02 Feb 2009.
  30. Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver, 2006. "The Return To English In A Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants And Native Israelis In Israel," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-159, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  31. Kevin Lang & Michael Manove, 2006. "Education and Labor-Market Discrimination," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2006-008, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  32. Adam Ashcraft & Kevin Lang, 2006. "The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing," NBER Working Papers 12485, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  33. Kevin Lang & Hong Kang, 2005. "Worker Sorting, Taxes and Health Insurance Coverage," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2005-011, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  34. Kevin Lang & Michael Manove & William T. Dickens, 2005. "Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-145, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  35. Kevin Lang, 2004. "The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination," Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings 360, Econometric Society.
  36. Angrist, Joshua & Lang, Kevin, 2004. "Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program," IZA Discussion Papers 976, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  37. Rigobon, Roberto & Lang, Kevin, 2004. "Comments," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123348, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
  38. Kevin Lang & Sumon Majumdar, 2003. "The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Implications," NBER Working Papers 9911, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  39. Joshua D. Angrist & Kevin Lang, 2002. "How Important are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program," NBER Working Papers 9263, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  40. Eli Berman & Kevin Lang & Erez Siniver, 1999. "Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition," Boston University - Institute for Economic Development 96, Boston University, Institute for Economic Development.
  41. Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens, 1993. "Bilateral Search as an Explanation for Labor Market Segmentation and Other Anomalies," NBER Working Papers 4461, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  42. Lang, Kevin, 1993. "Ability Bias, Discount Rate Bias and the Return to Education," MPRA Paper 24651, University Library of Munich, Germany.
  43. Kevin Lang, 1992. "Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?," NBER Working Papers 4052, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  44. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1992. "Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence," NBER Working Papers 4087, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  45. Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens, 1992. "Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment," NBER Working Papers 4073, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  46. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1991. "An Analysis of the Nature of Unemployment in Sri Lanka," NBER Working Papers 3777, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  47. Summers, Lawrence H. & Dickens, William T. & Katz, Lawrence F. & Lang, Kevin, 1989. "Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle," Scholarly Articles 3645199, Harvard University Department of Economics.
  48. Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang, 1988. "The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates," NBER Working Papers 2647, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  49. Kevin Lang, 1987. "Why Was there Mandatory Retirement? or the Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts," NBER Working Papers 2199, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  50. Kevin Lang & William T. Dickens, 1987. "Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets," NBER Working Papers 2127, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  51. Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang, 1987. "Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs. Specific-Capital," NBER Working Papers 2238, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  52. William T. Dickens & Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin Lang & Lawrence H. Summers, 1987. "Employee Crime, Monitoring, and the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis," NBER Working Papers 2356, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  53. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1987. "A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory," NBER Working Papers 2350, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  54. William T. Dickens & Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin Lang, 1986. "Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?," NBER Working Papers 1935, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  55. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1986. "Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium," NBER Working Papers 1883, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  56. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1985. "Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence," NBER Working Papers 1670, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  57. William T. Dickens & Kevin Lang, 1984. "A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory," NBER Working Papers 1314, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  58. Kevin Lang & Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer, "undated". "Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 7821adedb2e441ef85021895d, Mathematica Policy Research.
  59. Huailu Li & Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong, "undated". "Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-275, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  60. J. Bradford De Long & Kevin Lang, "undated". "Are All Economic Hypotheses False?," J. Bradford De Long's Working Papers _117, University of California at Berkeley, Economics Department.
  61. Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer & Kevin Lang, "undated". "How Discrimination and Bias Shapes Outcomes," Mathematica Policy Research Reports 76b5f2d5d15c49e4ba47f4c7a, Mathematica Policy Research.

Articles

  1. Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang & Russell Weinstein, 2024. "The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 134(658), pages 485-514.
  2. Wan, Sirui & Bond, Timothy N. & Lang, Kevin & Clements, Douglas H. & Sarama, Julie & Bailey, Drew H., 2021. "Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C).
  3. Costas Cavounidis & Kevin Lang, 2020. "Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 128(4), pages 1405-1435.
  4. Ariella Kahn-Lang & Kevin Lang, 2020. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(3), pages 613-620, July.
  5. Kevin Lang & Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer, 2020. "Race Discrimination: An Economic Perspective," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 34(2), pages 68-89, Spring.
  6. Kevin Lang, 2020. "Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 53(1), pages 108-139, February.
  7. Deepti Goel & Kevin Lang, 2019. "Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 72(2), pages 355-381, March.
  8. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2019. "The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 127(4), pages 1629-1640.
  9. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2018. "The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 53(4), pages 891-917.
  10. Huailu Li & Kevin Lang & Kaiwen Leong, 2018. "Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 128(611), pages 1570-1608, June.
  11. Gautam Bose & Kevin Lang, 2017. "Monitoring for Worker Quality," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 35(3), pages 755-785.
  12. Rashmi Barua & Kevin Lang, 2016. "School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of a Local Average Treatment Effect," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 10(3), pages 347-376.
  13. Kevin Lang Jr. & Russell Weinstein Jr., 2015. "The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 7(4), pages 169-197, October.
  14. Kevin Lang, 2015. "Racial Realism: A Review Essay on John Skrentny's After Civil Rights," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 53(2), pages 351-359, June.
  15. Timothy N. Bond & Kevin Lang, 2013. "The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 95(5), pages 1468-1479, December.
  16. Adam Ashcraft & Iván Fernández‐Val & Kevin Lang, 2013. "The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing: Consistent Estimates When Abortion Makes Miscarriage Non‐random," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 123, pages 875-905, September.
  17. Lang, Kevin & Weinstein, Russell, 2013. "The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 230-243.
  18. Kevin Lang & Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, 2012. "Trends in Self-reported Spontaneous Abortions: 1970–2000," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 49(3), pages 989-1009, August.
  19. Kevin Lang & Jee-Yeon K. Lehmann, 2012. "Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 50(4), pages 959-1006, December.
  20. Kevin Lang & Michael Manove, 2011. "Education and Labor Market Discrimination," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(4), pages 1467-1496, June.
  21. Lang, Kevin & Siniver, Erez, 2011. "Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(6), pages 767-777.
  22. Kevin Lang, 2010. "Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 24(3), pages 167-182, Summer.
  23. Lang Kevin & Siniver Erez, 2009. "The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 9(1), pages 1-30, November.
  24. Stephen G. Donald & Kevin Lang, 2007. "Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 89(2), pages 221-233, May.
  25. Kevin Lang & Michael Manove & William T. Dickens, 2005. "Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 95(4), pages 1327-1340, September.
  26. Lang, Kevin & Jian, Tianlun, 2004. "Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(3), pages 439-457, May.
  27. Kevin Lang & Sumon Majumdar, 2004. "The Pricing Of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory And Policy Implications," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 45(4), pages 1111-1128, November.
  28. Joshua D. Angrist & Kevin Lang, 2004. "Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 94(5), pages 1613-1634, December.
  29. Kevin Lang & Michael Manove, 2003. "Wage announcements with a continuum of worker type," Annals of Economics and Statistics, GENES, issue 71-72, pages 189-219.
  30. Berman, Eli & Lang, Kevin & Siniver, Erez, 2003. "Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 265-290, June.
  31. Lang, Kevin & Rosenthal, Robert W, 2001. "Bargaining Piecemeal or All at Once?," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 111(473), pages 526-540, July.
  32. Kevin Lang & Jay L. Zagorsky, 2001. "Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt?," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 36(2), pages 253-273.
  33. Lang, Kevin, 1998. "The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(4), pages 792-814, October.
  34. Lang, Kevin & Kahn, Shulamit, 1998. "The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 69(1), pages 67-82, July.
  35. Galizzi, Monica & Lang, Kevin, 1998. "Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 16(2), pages 367-391, April.
  36. Kevin Lang & Jay Zagorsky, 1998. "Why are Canadian and US Unemployment Rates So Highly Correlated?," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 24(s1), pages 56-71, February.
  37. Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang, 1996. "Hours Constraints and the Wage/Hours Locus," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 29(s1), pages 71-75, April.
  38. Shulamit B. Kahn & Kevin Lang, 1995. "The Causes of Hours Constraints: Evidence from Canada," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 28(4a), pages 914-928, November.
  39. Kevin Lang & Peter-John Gordon, 1995. "Partnerships as Insurance Devices: Theory and Evidence," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 26(4), pages 614-629, Winter.
  40. Lang, Kevin, 1994. "Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 84(1), pages 353-358, March.
  41. Shulamit Kahn & Kevin Lang, 1992. "Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 27(4), pages 661-678.
  42. De Long, J Bradford & Lang, Kevin, 1992. "Are All Economic Hypotheses False?," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 100(6), pages 1257-1272, December.
  43. Kevin Lang & Robert W. Rosenthal, 1991. "The Contractors' Game," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 22(3), pages 329-338, Autumn.
  44. Kevin Lang, 1991. "Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 106(1), pages 181-202.
  45. Kahn, Shulamit & Lang, Kevin, 1991. "The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 73(4), pages 605-611, November.
  46. Lang, Kevin & Kahn, Shulamit, 1990. "Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment: A Second View," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 28(2), pages 296-306, April.
  47. Lang, Kevin, 1989. "Why was there mandatory retirement?," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 127-136, June.
  48. Dickens, William T & Katz, Lawrence F & Lang, Kevin & Summers, Lawrence H, 1989. "Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 7(3), pages 331-347, July.
  49. Dickens, William T & Lang, Kevin, 1988. "The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 78(2), pages 129-134, May.
  50. Kahn, Shulamit & Lang, Kevin, 1988. "Efficient Estimation of Structural Hedonic Systems," International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association, vol. 29(1), pages 157-166, February.
  51. Dickens, William T & Lang, Kevin, 1988. "Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 70(3), pages 527-530, August.
  52. Lang, Kevin, 1988. "Job Signalling and Welfare Improving Minimum Wage Laws: Reply," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 26(3), pages 533-536, July.
  53. Lang, Kevin, 1987. "Pareto Improving Minimum Wage Laws," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 25(1), pages 145-158, January.
  54. Lang, Kevin & Bell, Duran, 1987. "An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(1), pages 79-99, February.
  55. Lang, Kevin & Ruud, Paul A, 1986. "Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 68(1), pages 41-47, February.
  56. Kevin Lang, 1986. "A Language Theory of Discrimination," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 101(2), pages 363-382.
  57. Kevin Lang & David Kropp, 1986. "Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 101(3), pages 609-624.
  58. Dickens, William T & Lang, Kevin, 1985. "A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 75(4), pages 792-805, September.

Chapters

  1. Rania Gihleb & Kevin Lang, 2020. "Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased," Research in Labor Economics, in: Change at Home, in the Labor Market, and On the Job, volume 48, pages 1-26, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  2. Kevin Lang, 2007. "Introduction to Poverty and Discrimination," Introductory Chapters, in: Poverty and Discrimination, Princeton University Press.
  3. George J. Borjas & Richard B. Freeman & Kevin Lang, 1991. "Undocumented Mexican-born Workers in the United States: How Many, How Permanent?," NBER Chapters, in: Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, pages 77-100, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. William T. Dickens & Lawrence F. Katz & Kevin Lang & Lawrence H. Summers, 1990. "Why Do Firms Monitor Workers?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yoram Weiss & Gideon Fishelson (ed.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment, chapter 6, pages 159-171, Palgrave Macmillan.

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  3. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (11) 2011-10-01 2013-06-16 2013-07-05 2015-02-16 2015-11-07 2016-06-14 2016-07-16 2018-08-27 2021-10-04 2023-10-30 2024-10-21. Author is listed
  4. NEP-EDU: Education (9) 2004-06-07 2006-06-10 2006-08-26 2006-09-03 2006-10-28 2010-05-02 2012-07-08 2013-07-05 2013-07-20. Author is listed
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  6. NEP-MIG: Economics of Human Migration (6) 2009-02-14 2009-07-28 2010-09-11 2010-10-09 2010-11-27 2016-06-14. Author is listed
  7. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (5) 2015-02-16 2016-06-09 2019-11-04 2020-05-04 2020-07-13. Author is listed
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  9. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (4) 2006-03-18 2006-09-03 2007-05-12 2013-11-16
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  12. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty (3) 2004-01-25 2010-11-27 2015-11-07
  13. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (2) 2015-02-16 2016-06-09
  14. NEP-HAP: Economics of Happiness (2) 2014-03-15 2018-08-20
  15. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (2) 2014-03-15 2018-08-20
  16. NEP-IAS: Insurance Economics (2) 2006-03-18 2007-05-12
  17. NEP-ORE: Operations Research (2) 2020-05-04 2020-07-13
  18. NEP-PBE: Public Economics (2) 2004-08-16 2007-05-12
  19. NEP-BEC: Business Economics (1) 2011-12-13
  20. NEP-CNA: China (1) 2023-06-19
  21. NEP-DEM: Demographic Economics (1) 2013-07-20
  22. NEP-DGE: Dynamic General Equilibrium (1) 2023-10-30
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  25. NEP-GER: German Papers (1) 2016-07-16
  26. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (1) 2021-10-04
  27. NEP-HRM: Human Capital and Human Resource Management (1) 2022-09-26
  28. NEP-MKT: Marketing (1) 2016-06-09
  29. NEP-SOG: Sociology of Economics (1) 2023-10-09
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