Professor, Boston University
Dr. Kevin Lang is the Laurence A. Bloom Professor of Economics at Boston University. From 2019 to 2023, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Labor Economics where he had been an editor from 2012-19. He served as a co-editor of Labour Economics, the Journal of the European Association of Labor Economists from 2005-13 and remains as an associate editor. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists and served as SOLE’s Vice President (2019-20), President-Elect (2020-21), and President (2021-22). His term as an elected member of the American Economic Association Executive Committee runs from 2023 to 2026. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (University College, London), a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn) and a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University).
Before joining BU, Dr. Lang spent a year at the NBER as an Olin Foundation Fellow and before that as an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. During his tenure at Boston University, he has had extended visits at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, Harvard, MIT, the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research (Fulbright Fellowship), University College, London, and the University of New South Wales. He has also taught mini-courses at Fudan University and Tel Aviv University.