Kevin Lang

Latest Institution: Boston University

All Institutions: Boston University; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Irvine; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); NA; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California; University of Leicester; Tel Aviv University


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Based on the Following Papers:

A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory

Year: 1984
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Kevin Lang; William T. Dickens

Testing Dual Labor Market Theory: A Reconsideration of the Evidence

Year: 1985
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: William T. Dickens; Kevin Lang

Are Efficiency Wages Efficient?

Year: 1986
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: William T. Dickens; Lawrence Katz; Kevin Lang

Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium

Year: 1986
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: William T. Dickens; Kevin Lang

Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency vs Specific Capital

Year: 1987
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: Shulamit Kahn; Kevin Lang

A Goodness of Fit Test of Dual Labor Market Theory

Year: 1987
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: William T. Dickens; Kevin Lang

Neoclassical and Sociological Perspectives on Segmented Labor Markets

Year: 1987
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; William T. Dickens

Why Was There Mandatory Retirement? Or, The Impossibility of Efficient Bonding Contracts

Year: 1987
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Kevin Lang

The Effects of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates

Year: 1988
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Shalumit Kahn; Kevin Lang

Labor Market Segmentation Theory: Reconsidering the Evidence

Year: 1992
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: William T. Dickens; Kevin Lang

Labor Market Segmentation, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment

Year: 1992
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; William T. Dickens

Language Skill Complementarity: Returns to Immigrant Language Acquisition

Year: 2000
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Eli Berman; Kevin Lang; Erez Siniver

How Important Are Classroom Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's METCO Program

Year: 2002
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Joshua D. Angrist; Kevin Lang

The Effect of the Payroll Tax on Earnings: A Test of Competing Models of Wage Determination

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang

The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear: Theory and Policy Implications

Year: 2003
Journal: International Economic Review
Authors: Kevin Lang; Sumon Majumdar

Education and Labor Market Discrimination

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Kevin Lang; Michael Manove

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Adam Ashcraft; Kevin Lang

The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country: Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Erez Siniver

Worker Sorting, Taxes, and Health Insurance Coverage

Year: 2007
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Hong Kang

School Entry, Educational Attainment, and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of Late

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Rashmi Barua; Kevin Lang

Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Year: 2009
Journal: Industria
Authors: Deepti Goel; Kevin Lang

Why is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel

Year: 2011
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Kevin Lang; Erez Siniver

Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Economic Literature
Authors: Kevin Lang; Jeeyeon K. Lehmann

A Theory of Monitoring and Internal Labor Markets

Year: 2011
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Gautam Bose; Kevin Lang

The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results

Year: 2012
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang

Evaluating Student Outcomes at For-Profit Colleges

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Russell Weinstein

The Wage Effects of Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results

Year: 2013
Journal: Labour Economics
Authors: Kevin Lang; Russell Weinstein

The Black-White Education-Scaled Test Score Gap in Grades K-7

Year: 2013
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang

The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages, and Incarceration

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Olesya Baker; Kevin Lang

The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing Before Roe v. Wade

Year: 2013
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Kevin Lang; Russell Weinstein

The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales

Year: 2014
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang

Does Competition Eliminate Discrimination? Evidence from the Commercial Sex Market in Singapore

Year: 2015
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Huailu Li; Kevin Lang; Kaiwen Leong

Discrimination and Worker Evaluation

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Costas Cavounidis; Kevin Lang

Educational Homogamy and Assortative Mating Have Not Increased

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Rania Gihleb; Kevin Lang

A Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Experienced Workers

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Russell Weinstein

Benporath Meets Lazear: Lifetime Skill Investment and Occupation Choice with Multiple Skills

Year: 2017
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Costas Cavounidis; Kevin Lang

The Determinants of Teachers Occupational Choice

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Maria Dolores Palacios

The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales: Empirical Results

Year: 2018
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Timothy N. Bond; Kevin Lang

The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications

Year: 2018
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Ariella Kahn-Lang; Kevin Lang

Lending to the Unbanked: Relational Contracting with Loan Sharks

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang; Kaiwen Leong; Huailu Li; Haibo Xu

The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers

Year: 2019
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Costas Cavounidis; Kevin Lang; Russell Weinstein

The Evolution of Skill Use Within and Between Jobs

Year: 2021
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Costas Cavounidis; Vittoria DiCandia; Kevin Lang; Raghav Malhotra

How Credible is the Credibility Revolution

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kevin Lang

Obsolescence Rents, Teamsters, Truckers, and Impending Innovations

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Costas Cavounidis; Qingyuan Chai; Kevin Lang; Raghav Malhotra

Hukou and Guanxi: How Social Discrimination and Networks Impact Intrahousehold Allocations in China

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Liqun Zhuge; Kevin Lang


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