{"id":10213,"date":"2024-08-06T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T20:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/shulamit-kahn\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:25:21","slug":"shulamit-kahn","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom\/profiles\/shulamit-kahn\/","title":{"rendered":"Shulamit Kahn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull profile__standard-wrapper has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns profile__columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-b2e659ba wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__left-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-986eed52 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><figure class=\"profile__image wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Shulamit Kahn\" style=\"object-fit:contain\" class=\"wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/images\/facstaff\/KahnShulamit.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<aside class=\"profile__contact profile__contact--api wp-block-amp-profile-contact\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n  <h5>Contact<\/h5>\n  <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n          <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--phone\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Phone\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"telephone\">\n        617-353-4299      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--email\">\n        <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n        Email\n      <\/h6>\n      <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\">\n        <a href=\"mailto:skahn@bu.edu\" itemprop=\"email\">\n          skahn@bu.edu        <\/a>\n      <\/p>\n    <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"profile__contact-buttons\">\n              <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/questromapps.bu.edu\/faculty\/uploadFiles\/cvUploadsProfile\/PL_Kahn_Shulamit_CV.pdf\">\n            Download CV\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-primary-button\">\n          <a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/shulamitkahn\/\" itemprop=\"url\">\n            Visit Website\n          <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  \n      <div class=\"profile__contact-row\">\n\n              <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--office\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px;\">\n          Office\n        <\/h6>\n        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"workLocation\">\n          518C        <\/p>\n      <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"profile__contact-cell profile__contact-cell--bu\">\n          <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-h-8-font-size\" style=\"font-weight: 500; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px\">\n            Boston University <br \/>\n            Questrom School of Business\n          <\/h6>\n                        <p class=\"has-p-2-font-size\" itemprop=\"address\">\n                Rafik B. Hariri Building <br \/>\n                595 Commonwealth Avenue <br \/>\n                Boston, MA 02215\n              <\/p>\n                  <\/div>\n          <\/div>\n  <\/aside><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column profile__right-column is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-986eed52 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0f22d0a1 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__header-content has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Shulamit Kahn<\/h2>\n<div class=\"alignfull wp-block-amp-profile-position\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-transform-uppercase has-p-2-font-size\" style=\"text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600\">\n\t\t\tProfessor, Markets, Public Policy, and Law\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-amp-profile-data profile-data\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-education\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tEducation\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">PhD, MIT, 1983<\/p>\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-presentations\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tSelected Research Presentations\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. Presented Comments on paper entitled Better Together? Faculty, Gender Match, and Credit in Science, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge MA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. Will the Best Leave? Salaries and International Location Choices of US-trained STEM PhDs, Rockwool Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. Whose Golden Opportunity? Salaries and International Location Choices of US-trained STEM PhDs, Migration and Organizations Research Conference, Columbia Business School, NY, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. Same as it ever Was: Gender, race, and ethnicity differences in promotion for academic economists., American Economics Association Meetings (ASSA), San Francisco CA, 2025<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration, Confronting Hegemonic Ideas in Counselling Psychology Speakers Series, zoom (University of British Columbia), 2023<\/p>\t\t<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-section has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained wp-block-amp-profile-publications\">\n\t<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-weight: 500\">\n\tPublications\t<\/h5>\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group profile__data-row has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Garro Marin, C., Lang, K. (In Press). &#8220;Do Elite Universities Overpay their Faculty?&#8221;, <i>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (In Press). Women and STEM: Faculty Issues.&#8221;The Sage Encyclopedia of Education and Gender&#8221;, <i>Sage Publishing<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (In Press). &#8220;Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?&#8221;, <i>American Economic Assocation Papers and Proceedings<\/i>, <i>111<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Williams, W. (In Press). &#8220;Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women\u2019s underrepresentation in science.&#8221;, <i>European Journal of Personality<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Williams, W. (In Press). &#8220;Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Journal Acceptance&#8221;, <i>SSRN Electronic Journal<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (2025). &#8220;Women and STEM: Faculty Issues&#8221;, <i>Sage Publications<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D., Milakhina, D. (2025). &#8220;Same as It Ever Was: Gender, Race and Ethnicity Differences in Promotion for Academic Economists&#8221;, <i>American Economics Association Papers and Proceedings<\/i> 195-201<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\"> (2025). &#8220;Book review of Disparate Measures: The Intersectional Economics of Women in STEM Work&#8221;, <i>Journal of Economic Literature<\/i>, <i>63<\/i> (1),  306-308<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Macgarvie, m., Kahn, s. (2024). &#8220;New Evidence on International Postdocs: Less Pay, Different Experiences&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i>, <i>53<\/i> (9)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2024). &#8220;New evidence on international postdocs in the US: Less pay, different experiences&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i>, <i>53<\/i> (9),  105077-105077<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (2023). &#8220;Women Scientists: Is Bias Keeping Them from Success?&#8221;, <i>Boston University Questrom School of Business<\/i> (August 2, 2023)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (2023). &#8220;Women in Science Aren\u2019t Doing \u2018All Right\u2019 It is more complicated than sexism or nonsexism&#8221;, <\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Williams, W. (2023). &#8220;Exploring Gender Bias in Six Key Domains of Academic Science: An Adversarial Collaboration&#8221;, <i>Psychological Science in the Public Interest<\/i>, <i>24<\/i> (1)<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2021). &#8220;Women in Academic Economics: Have We Made Progress?&#8221;, <i>AEA Papers and Proceedings<\/i>, <i>111<\/i> 138-142<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ceci, S., Kahn, S., Williams, W. (2021). &#8220;Stewart-Williams and Halsey argue persuasively that gender bias is just one of many causes of women\u2019s underrepresentation in science&#8221;, <i>European Journal of Personality<\/i>, <i>35<\/i> (1),  40-44<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (2020). Gender and promotion in economics academia. In Shelly, Lundberg. (Eds.), &#8220;Women in Economics&#8221;, <i>Vox EU CEPR<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S. (2020). &#8220;Gender and Promotion in Economics Academia&#8221;, <i>Chapter Vox CEPR ebook: Women in Economics: Stalled Progress<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Macgarvie, M., Kahn, s., Ganguli, I. (2020). Introduction. In Ina, Ganguli., Shulamit, Kahn., Megan, Macgarvie. (Eds.), &#8220;The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship&#8221;, <i>University of Chicago Press<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\"> (2020). &#8220;The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship&#8221;, <i>University of Chicago Press<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (2019). &#8220;The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and Why&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Macgarvie, M., Kahn, S. (2019). &#8220;The impact of permanent residency delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and why&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2018). &#8220;The Engineering Education-Workforce Continuum&#8221;, <i>National Academy of Engineering<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (2018). &#8220;Immigration Policy and Stay Rates of STEM PhDs&#8221;, <i>Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Science and Technology Indicator<\/i> 478-485<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Macgarvie, M. (2018). &#8220;The Impact of Permanent Residency Delays for STEM PhDs: Who leaves and Why&#8221;, <i>National Bureau of Economic Research<\/i>, <i>W25175<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ceci, S., Williams, W., Kahn, S. (2018). &#8220;The Underrepresentation of Women in Science: International and Cross-Disciplinary Evidence and Debate&#8221;, <i>Frontiers Media SA<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Kahn, S., Williams, W. (2018). Culture, Sex and Intelligence. In Robert, Sternberg. (Eds.), &#8220;The Nature of Human Intelligence&#8221;, <i>Cambridge University Press<\/i> 30-48<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2017). Women and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In Lauren M, Argys., Susan L, Averett., Saul D, Hoffman. (Eds.), &#8220;The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy&#8221;, <i>Oxford handbooks online, Oxford University Press<\/i> 1-40<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., La Mattina, G., J. MacGarvie, M. (2017). &#8220;\u201cMisfits,\u201d \u201cstars,\u201d and immigrant entrepreneurship&#8221;, <i>Small Business Economics<\/i>, <i>49<\/i> (3),  533-557<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2017). &#8220;The impact of postdoctoral training on early careers in Biomedicine&#8221;, <i>Nature Biotechnology<\/i>, <i>35<\/i> (1),  90-94<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Schaffer, W., Ginther, D. (2016). &#8220;Gender, Race, Ethnicity and NIH R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind?&#8221;, <i>Academic Medicine<\/i>, <i>91<\/i> (8),  1304-1322<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ginther, D., Kahn, S., Schaffer, W. (2016). &#8220;Gender, Race\/Ethnicity, and National Institutes of Health R01 Research Awards: Is There Evidence of a Double Bind for Women of Color?&#8221;, <i>Academic Medicine<\/i>, <i>91<\/i> (8),  1098-1107<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2016). &#8220;Do return requirements increase international knowledge diffusion? Evidence from the Fulbright program&#8221;, <i>Research Policy<\/i>, <i>45<\/i> (6),  1304-1322<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2016). &#8220;How Important Is U.S. Location for Research in Science?&#8221;, <i>Review of Economics and Statistics<\/i>, <i>98<\/i> (2),  397-414<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2015). &#8220;Are recent cohorts of women with engineering bachelors less likely to stay in engineering?&#8221;, <i>Frontiers in Psychology<\/i>, <i>6<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ginther, D., Kahn, S. (2015). &#8220;Comment on \u201cExpectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines\u201d&#8221;, <i>Science<\/i>, <i>349<\/i> (6246),  391-391<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Kahn, S., Williams, W. (2014). &#8220;Women in Science: The Path to Progress&#8221;, <i>Scientific American Mind<\/i>, <i>26<\/i> (1),  62-69<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ceci, S., Ginther, D., Williams, W. (2014). &#8220;Women in Academic Science: A Changing Landscape&#8221;, <i>Psychological Science in the Public Interest<\/i>, <i>15<\/i> (3),  74-141<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2014). Women&#8217;s Careers in Academic Social Science: Progress, Pitfalls and Plateaus.&#8221;The Economics of Economists: Institutional Setting, Individual Incentives and Future Prospects&#8221;, <i>Cambridge University Press<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2013). Education and Academic Career Outcomes for Women of Color in Science and Engineering.&#8221;Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia: Summary of a Conference&#8221;, <i>National Academies Press<\/i><\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">KAHN, S. (2012). &#8220;Gender Differences in Academic Promotion and Mobility at a Major Australian University*&#8221;, <i>Economic Record<\/i>, <i>88<\/i> (282),  407-424<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., MacGarvie, M. (2012). The Effects of the Foreign Fulbright Program on Knowledge Creation.&#8221;NBER 50th Anniversary Conference Volume on the Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity&#8221;, <i>University of Chicago Press<\/i> 161-197<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Ginther, D. (2009). Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001.&#8221;Science and Engineering Careers in the United States: An Analysis of Markets and Employment&#8221;, <i>University of Chicago Press<\/i> 163-195<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Ginther, D., Kahn, S. (2004). &#8220;Women in Economics: Moving Up or Falling Off the Academic Career Ladder?&#8221;, <i>Journal of Economic Perspectives<\/i>, <i>18<\/i> (3),  193-214<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-left has-neutral-01-color has-text-color has-link-color has-p-2-font-size\">Kahn, S., Lang, K. 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