Assistant Professor of Economics

Professor Kahn is a labor economist with interests in organizations and education. Her most recent work develops a methodology for measuring informational asymmetries in labor markets and assessing their impact on workers. She has also examined the consequences of graduating from college in a bad economy, finding surprisingly long-lasting, negative wage effects. Her related work on recessions suggests that, although firms hire fewer workers during a downturn, those they do hire are typically a better fit. This year Professor Kahn will teach Strategic Management and the Internal Organization of the Firm.

Selected Articles
"The Plight of Mixed Race Kids" (with R. Fryer, S. Levitt, and J. Spenkuch), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming

"The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy," Labour Economics, Vol. 17, No. 2, April, 2010 

Working Papers 
"Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures" (with F. Lange)

"Asymmetric Information between Employers"

"Job Durations, Match Quality and the Business Cycle: What We Can Learn from Firm Fixed Effects"

"The Box Office Return to an Academy Award" 

Education
PhD Harvard University, 2008
MA Harvard University, 2005
AB University of Chicago, 2003

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