Shulamit Kahn
| Phone: | (617) 353-4299 |
| Address: | Boston University Department of Markets, Public Policy and Law Questrom School of Business 595 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA 02215 |
| E-mail: | skahn@bu.edu |
Shulamit Kahn is a Professor at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where she has been 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.
She is an expert on Women in STEM and scientific careers in general, and published extensively on this topic (including Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Economics Perspectives, Psychological Science in the Public Interest, Nature, Academic Medicine, AEA Papers and Proceeding, Oxford Handbooks, Nature Biotech.) She has spoken to many audiences on women in STEM and in economics particularly (including the Princeton Institute of Advanced Science, meetings of the American Economics Assn. and the Canadian Economics Association, the European Gender Summit and Chinese Women Economics).
Dr. Kahn’s other recently published work has been on immigration v. emigration of foreign students with STEM degrees, studying both their choices and their impacts (including publications in Review of Economics and Statistics, Research Policy, Small Business Economics.) Dr. Kahn main civic engagement currently is as Board Treasurer of a vocational program and school in Kenya (Jitegemee.org – check it out), and she has been on the board of this NGO for two decades.
She has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and from the National Institutes of Health. She primarily teaches econometrics and data analysis for business.