Shulamit Kahn

Shulamit Kahn is a Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where she has been since 1987. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in Economics in 1983, and taught at the University of California, Irvine in the intervening years.

She is an expert on women and STEM, and has recently published on this topic (in Oxford Handbooks, Science, Frontiers in Psychology, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Academic Medicine, Journal of Economics Perspectives, and a related article in Nature Biotech.) She has spoken to many audiences on women in STEM and in economics particularly (including the Princeton Institute of Advanced Science, meetings of the American Economics Assn. and the Canadian Economics Association, the European Gender Summit and Chinese Women Economics (CWE).

Dr. Kahn’s other recently published work has been on immigration v. emigration of foreign students with STEM degrees, studying both their choices and their impacts (including publications in Review of Economics and Statistics, Research Policy, Small Business Economics.) Dr. Kahn is currently the Board Chair of a vocational program and school in Kenya (Jitegemee) and her interest in this has led her to a new research interest on apprenticeships, starting with a paper in progress on the wage and mobility impacts of apprenticeships and trade accreditation in Australia.

She has received recent research grants from the National Science Foundation and from the National Institutes of Health. She primarily teaches econometrics and data analysis for business.

Education

• Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983, Economics.
• B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University (1971), Urban Studies/Political Science.

Selected Publications

• Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (In Press). "Shifting US Premium in PhD STEM Salaries", All Azimuth : A Journal of Foreign Policy and Peace
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (In Press). "Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?", American Economic Assocation Papers and Proceedings, 111
• Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Williams, W. (In Press). "Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women’s underrepresentation in science.", European Journal of Personality
• Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Williams, W. (2023). "Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration", Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 24 (1)
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2021). "Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?", AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111 138-142
• Ceci, S., Kahn, S., Williams, W. (2021). "Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women’s underrepresentation in science", European Journal of Personality, 35 (1), 40-44
• Kahn, S. (2020). Gender and promotion in economics academia. In Shelly, Lundberg. (Eds.), "Women in Economics", Vox EU CEPR
• Kahn, S. (2020). "Gender and Promotion in Economics Academia", Chapter Vox CEPR ebook: Women in Economics: Stalled Progress
• Macgarvie, M., Kahn, s., Ganguli, I. (2020). Introduction. In Ina, Ganguli., Shulamit, Kahn., Megan, Macgarvie. (Eds.), "The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship", University of Chicago Press
• Ganguli, I., Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2020). "The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship", University of Chicago Press
• Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (2018). "Immigration Policy and Stay Rates of STEM PhDs", Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicator 478-485
• Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (2018). "The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and Why", National Bureau of Economic Research, W25175
• Ceci, S., Williams, W., Kahn, S. (2018). "The Underrepresentation of Women in Science: International and Cross-Disciplinary Evidence and Debate", Frontiers Media SA
• Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Kahn, S., Williams, W. (2018). Culture, Sex and Intelligence. In Robert, Sternberg. (Eds.), "The Nature of Human Intelligence", Cambridge University Press 30-48
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2017). Women and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In Lauren M, Argys., Susan L, Averett., Saul D, Hoffman. (Eds.), "The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy", Oxford handbooks online, Oxford University Press 1-40
• Kahn, S., La Mattina, G., J. MacGarvie, M. (2017). "“Misfits,” “stars,” and immigrant entrepreneurship", Small Business Economics, 49 (3), 533-557
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2017). "The impact of postdoctoral training on early careers in Biomedicine", Nature Biotechnology, 35 (1), 90-94
• Kahn, S., Schaffer, W., Ginther, D. (2016). "Gender, Race, Ethnicity and NIH R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind?", Academic Medicine, 91 (8), 1304-1322
• Ginther, D., Kahn, S., Schaffer, W. (2016). "Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and National Institutes of Health R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind for Women of Color?", Academic Medicine, 91 (8), 1098-1107
• Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2016). "Do return requirements increase international knowledge diffusion? Evidence from the Fulbright program", Research Policy, 45 (6), 1304-1322
• Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2016). "How Important Is U.S. Location for Research in Science?", Review of Economics and Statistics, 98 (2), 397-414
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2015). "Are recent cohorts of women with engineering bachelors less likely to stay in engineering?", Frontiers in Psychology, 6
• Ginther, D., Kahn, S. (2015). "Comment on “Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines”", Science, 349 (6246), 391-391
• Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Williams, W. (2014). "Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape", Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 15 (3), 74-141
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2014). Women's Careers in Academic Social Science: Progress, Pitfalls and Plateaus."The Economics of Economists: Institutional Setting, Individual Incentives and Future Prospects", Cambridge University Press
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2013). Education and Academic Career Outcomes for Women of Color in Science and Engineering."Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia: Summary of a Conference", National Academies Press
• KAHN, S. (2012). "Gender Differences in Academic Promotion and Mobility at a Major Australian University*", Economic Record, 88 (282), 407-424
• Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2012). The Effects of the Foreign Fulbright Program on Knowledge Creation."NBER 50th Anniversary Conference Volume on the Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity", University of Chicago Press 161-197
• Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2009). Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001."Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and Employment", University of Chicago Press 163-195
• Ginther, D., Kahn, S. (2004). "Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 (3), 193-214
• Kahn, S., Lang, K. (1992). "Constraints on the choice of work hours: Agency versus specific-capital", Journal of Human resources 661-678

Selected Research Presentations

• Kahn, S. Do Elite Universities Overpay Their Faculty?, BU Department of Economics Empirical Micro Workshop, BU Department of Economics, 2022
• Kahn, S. Gender Bias Persists in Two of Six Domains in Academic Science., A New Synthesis for the Science of Science-- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe Institute Santa Fe New Mexico, 2022
• Kahn, S. Mentoring Under-Represented Scholars, Wilfrid Laurier University Mentoring Panel, zoom, 2022
• Kahn, S. , Macgarvie, m. Does US Science Under-Invest in International Postdocs? Evidence from the ECDS, Investments in Early Career Scientists: Data and Research Gaps, National Bureau of Economics Research - online, 2021
• Kahn, S. The Structural Decline in Job Turnover in the early 2000s: Disequilibrium or New Normal?, Society of Labor Economics, virtual, 2021
• Kahn, S. , Macgarvie, M. Shifting US Premium in PhD STEM Salaries, Conference on Educational and Cultural Exchanges and Peace in the Disinformation Era (Fulbright Turkey), Turkey (virtually), 2021
• Kahn, S. Biases about Women in Science, STEM Gap : Females building careers in STEM fields, MyScienceWork Webinar, 2021
• Kahn, S. Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?, American Economic Association Annual Meetings ASSA, online, 2021
• Macgarvie, M. Jobs and Salaries of Chinese US-Granted STEM PhDs (invited as keynote speaker), Workshop on Migration, Globalization and the Knowledge Economy, Milan, Italy, 2020
• Kahn, S. , Modestino, A. The Structural Decline in Job Turnover since 2000: Disequilibrium or New Normal?, BU Economics Department Applied Microeconomics Lunch Seminar, online, 2020
• Kahn, S. The Impact of MBA Degrees on Careers: Learning from Career Trajectories, American Economics Association Annual Mettings (ASSA), San Diego, 2020
• Kahn, S. The Structural Decline in Job Turnover since 2000: Disequilibrium or New Normal, Labor and Employment Relations (LERA) at the ASSA meetings, San Diego, 2020

Awards And Honors

• 2021, 2021 Molly McCombe and T.J. Callahan Faculty Research Fund.