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Kevin Lang

Global rank #324 99%

Institution: Boston University

Primary Field: Labor (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: http://people.bu.edu/lang/

First Publication: 1985

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pla83 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 3.18 0.34 0.00 6.70
Last 10 Years 2.01 6.20 0.34 0.00 21.78
All Time 14.75 22.79 3.02 0.00 108.59

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 38
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 42.75

Publications (38)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Borrowing in an Illegal Market: Contracting with Loan Sharks Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2025 How Credible Is the Credibility Revolution? Journal of Labor Economics A 1
2024 The Boss is Watching: How Monitoring Decisions Hurt Black Workers Economic Journal A 3
2021 Is intervention fadeout a scaling artefact? Economics of Education Review B 6
2020 The Promise and Pitfalls of Differences-in-Differences: Reflections on 16 and Pregnant and Other Applications Journal of Business & Economic Statistics A 2
2020 Ben-Porath Meets Lazear: Microfoundations for Dynamic Skill Formation Journal of Political Economy S 2
2020 Effort and wages: Evidence from the payroll tax Canadian Journal of Economics C 1
2019 The Sad Truth about Happiness Scales Journal of Political Economy S 2
2018 The Black–White Education Scaled Test-Score Gap in Grades K-7 Journal of Human Resources A 2
2017 Monitoring for Worker Quality Journal of Labor Economics A 2
2015 The Consequences of Teenage Childbearing before Roe v. Wade American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2013 The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K–3: The Fragility of Results Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2013 The wage effects of not-for-profit and for-profit certifications: Better data, somewhat different results Labour Economics B 2
2011 Education and Labor Market Discrimination American Economic Review S 2
2011 Why is an elite undergraduate education valuable? Evidence from Israel Labour Economics B 2
2007 Inference with Difference-in-Differences and Other Panel Data Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2005 Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wage Offers American Economic Review S 3
2004 Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program American Economic Review S 2
2004 Property taxes and property values: evidence from Proposition Journal of Urban Economics A 2
2003 Language-skill complementarity: returns to immigrant language acquisition Labour Economics B 3
2001 Does Growing up with a Parent Absent Really Hurt? Journal of Human Resources A 2
1998 The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence Journal of Public Economics A 2
1998 Relative Wages, Wage Growth, and Quit Behavior. Journal of Labor Economics A 2
1998 The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Wages and Employment: The Case of New Zealand. Journal of Labor Economics A 1
1994 Does the Human-Capital/Educational-Sorting Debate Matter for Development Policy? American Economic Review S 1
1992 Are All Economic Hypotheses False? Journal of Political Economy S 2
1992 Constraints on the Choice of Work Hours: Agency Versus Specific-Capital Journal of Human Resources A 2
1991 The Effect of Hours Constraints on Labor Supply Estimates. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1991 Persistent Wage Dispersion and Involuntary Unemployment Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1989 Employee Crime and the Monitoring Puzzle. Journal of Labor Economics A 4
1989 Why was there mandatory retirement? Journal of Public Economics A 1
1988 The Reemergence of Segmented Labor Market Theory. American Economic Review S 2
1988 Labor Market Segmentation and the Union Wage Premium. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1987 An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders Journal of Public Economics A 2
1986 A Language Theory of Discrimination Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1986 Human Capital Versus Sorting: The Effects of Compulsory Attendance Laws Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1986 Returns to Schooling, Implicit Discount Rates and Black-White Wage Differentials. Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1985 A Test of Dual Labor Market Theory. American Economic Review S 2