Lawrence M. Kahn (born 1950) is the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics at the

Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations The New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University (ILR) is an industrial relations school and one of the four New York State contract colleges at Cornell University, located in Ithaca, New York, United States. The ...

Education

Kahn received his B.A. with High Honors and High Distinction in mathematics from the

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 1971 and his Ph.D. in economics from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1975 with a dissertation entitled "Unions and Labor Market Segmentation".

Career

Kahn was a Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

from 1975 until 1994, when he joined the Cornell faculty. At Cornell, he was Chair of the Labor Economics Department from 1998–99 and 2000-2005.

Honors and awards

Kahn is an elected Fellow of the

Society of Labor Economists A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societi ...

. He is a Research Fellow of the

Center for Economic Studies The Center for Economic Studies (CES) is an independent institute within the Faculty of Economics of the University of Munich (LMU). It promotes the international exchange of knowledge and ideas in public finance and other areas of economics. CES ...

Ifo Institute for Economic Research The Ifo Institute for Economic Research is a Munich-based research institution. Ifo is an acronym from Information and Forschung (research). As one of Germany's largest economic think-tanks, it analyses economic policy and is widely known for its ...

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, of the

Institute for the Study of Labor The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (german: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused o ...

in Bonn, Germany, and of the National Centre for Econometric Research in Australia. He has served as a member of the

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Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues.

Editorial activities

Along with Rosemary Batt, Kahn is the co-

editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...

of '' ILR Review''. He is also on the editorial board of the ''

Journal of Sports Economics The ''Journal of Sports Economics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by SAGE Publications in association with the North American Association of Sports Economists covering the economics of sports. It was established by economist Leo "H ...

'', served as Associate Editor of the '' Industrial & Labor Relations Review'', and Specialized Co-Editor (for Sports Economics) of ''

Economic Inquiry ''Economic Inquiry'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Western Economic Association International. The current editor-in-chief is Tim Salmon (Southern Methodist University). The journal was establishe ...

'' and was on the Board of Editors of ''

Industrial Relations Industrial relations or employment relations is the multidisciplinary academic field that studies the employment relationship; that is, the complex interrelations between employers and employees, labor/trade unions, employer organizations, ...

''.

Personal life

Kahn is married to

Francine Blau Francine Dee Blau (born August 29, 1946 in New York City)Cicarelli, James and Julianne Cicarelli''Distinguished women economists''.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2003, pp. 36–40, . is an American economist and professor of economics as well as ...

, who is also a professor of economics at Cornell.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kahn, Lawrence M. Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations faculty 21st-century American economists 1950 births Living people American academic journal editors University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni American labor economists