Kevin Lang

Kevin Lang is a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn) and of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (University College, London) and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University). He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, co-editor of Labour Economics, the journal of the European Association of Labour Economists, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Employment Research Forum.

Kevin served an elected member of the school board in Brookline, Massachusetts from 1996-2009, including three years as Vice-Chair and two as Chair. His interest in education led to his participation in National Research Council panels on value-added measurement in education and on incentives and test-based accountability in K-12 education and to a three-year term on the NRC’s Board on Testing and Assessment.
Born in Ottawa, Canada, he has degrees from Oxford University (BA), the University of Montreal (MSc) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD). He lives in Brookline with his wife, Shulamit Kahn, who is also a labor economist. They have two grown daughters.