Shulamit Kahn

Shulamit Kahn has been at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business for more than 30 years. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in Economics and also taught at the University of California, Irvine. She is an expert on labor economics and her current areas of research include: (1) women in STEM education and jobs (2) how education and training affects later careers (3) factors affecting immigration of highly educated foreign postdocs in the US and (4) the impact of broadband access on how often people change employers. Dr. Kahn has published extensively in academic journals (including American Economic Review, Science, Academic Medicine, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Nature Biotech, Journal of Human Resources, Review of Economics and Statistics, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Research Policy and others) and has recently edited a book on the role of immigrants in US science, innovation and entrepreneurship. Since 2005, she has been on the Board of Directors (currently President) of an NGO in Kenya that has been very successful in providing vocational training (with apprenticeships) and support to impoverished kids, with impressive post-training employment rates of more than 85%. She has spoken to many audiences around the world (including the Princeton Institute of Advanced Science, The World Bank, the European Gender Summit and the Chinese Women Economics.)