Lisa B. Kahn

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Lisa B. Kahn
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Lisa Blau Kahn is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on labor economics with interests in organization, education, and contract theory. From 2014 to 2018, she served as an associate professor of economics at Yale School of Management and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2014. From 2010 to 2011, Kahn served as the senior economist for labor and education policy on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. [1]

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Kahn received an A.B. in economics with honors from the University of Chicago in 2003. She received an M.A. in economics from Harvard University in 2005 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2008. [2] Since 2018, she has served as an editor for the Journal of Human Resources , a leading journal in empirical microeconomics. [3] Her work has been widely cited in both academic articles and in the press, including publications such as The Wall Street Journal , The Atlantic , Huffington Post , the Chicago Tribune , and others. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Work and education

In 2003, Kahn received an A.B. in economics with honors from the University of Chicago. She received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2005 and 2008. Afterwards, she became an assistant professor of economics at Yale School of Management, where she taught competitive strategy and the internal organization of the firm, the employee perspective, and "freakonomics". [9] From 2010 to 2011, Kahn served as a senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers, focused on labor and education policy. [4] From 2011 to 2012, she was a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She joined the IZA Institute of Labor Economics as a research fellow in November 2012. In 2014, she was promoted to associate professor of economics at the Yale School of Management. [9]

Since 2014, she has served as a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Studies in Labor Studies. From 2015 to 2016, she was a visiting research scholar in the industrial relations section of the department of economics at Princeton University. She also taught an undergraduate junior writing workshop at Princeton from 2015 to 2016. [2]

In 2018, Kahn become a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. She teaches graduate labor economics and taught an undergraduate course titled "Freakonomics" in the spring of 2019.

Works

Working papers

Honors, scholarships, and fellowships

YearAwardInstitution
2010-11Best paper in Labour EconomicsLabour Economics
2007-08Alan and Barbara Washkowitz Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship
2006-07Thomas Cochran Dissertation FellowshipCochran Fellowship Program
2003-05Harvard University Graduate Student FellowshipHarvard University

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References

  1. ↑ "Lisa Kahn, Michael Giacomelli". The New York Times. 2018-07-15. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  2. 1 2 "Lisa B. Kahn – Professor of Economics". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  3. ↑ "Journal of Human Resources – Journal of Human Resources Editorial Board". jhr.uwpress.org. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  4. 1 2 "Lisa B. Kahn | IZA – Institute of Labor Economics". www.iza.org. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  5. ↑ Zumbrun, Josh (2014-07-14). "Lower Job Churn Hurts Young Workers". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  6. ↑ Field, Tamara Kerrill (November 29, 2009). "Being biracial in a mixed-up world". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on 1 December 2009.
  7. ↑ White, Gillian B. (2015-11-20). "Should Computers Decide Who Gets Hired?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  8. ↑ Hobbes, Michael. "Generation Screwed". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
  9. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae - Lisa B. Kahn -- Professor of Economics". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
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