Shulamit Kahn
Shulamit Kahn has been at Boston University’s School of Management 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. Her specialty is labor economics and human resources. A major stream of her research for the last 15 years studies careers of scientists and gender differences in those careers. This includes work on gender differences in academic sciences (STEM in general, biomedicine, economics, social sciences, engineering), the impact of postdocs on scientific careers, how engineering careers develop, and more. Much of this work has been funded by National Institute on Aging of the NIH. In one highly cited published work on this topic, she joined with three coauthors to survey what is known on trends related to women in academic STEM, adding new analyses of recent data. (“Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape” with Stephen Ceci, Donna Ginther and Wendy Williams. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 2014.) She was recently a consultant to the National Academy of Engineering about trends in engineering careers and a consultant to the National Research Council of the National Academies about careers of women of color in STEM. In a second stream of current research, Professor Kahn is studying the contributions of foreign Ph.D. students to global knowledge creation and diffusion, entrepreneurship and innovation, research funded by the National Science Foundation. Her most recent publication on this topic is “How Important is U.S. Location for Research in Science?” with Megan J. MacGarvie forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics. At Boston University, Professor Kahn currently teaches management students data analysis and statistics and chairs the School of Management Faculty Policy Committee. An additional passion is her work on the board of a Kenyan program that educates street children.
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