LISA B. KAHN http://faculty.som.yale.edu/lisakahn/ lisa.kahn@yale.edu (December, 2017) Contact Information Yale School of Management phone: 203-432-5956 PO Box 208200 Fax: 203-432-6974 New Haven, CT, 06520-8200 Employment: 2014- Associate Professor of Economics, School of Management, Yale University 2008-2014 Assistant Professor of Economics, School of Management, Yale University 2010-2011 Senior Economist for Labor and Education, Council of Economic Advisers Visiting Positions: 2015-2016 Visiting Research Scholar, Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics, Princeton University 2011-2012 Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution Professional Affiliations: 2014- Faculty Research Fellow, NBER, Labor Studies 2012- Research Fellow, IZA Education: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University, 2008 M.A., Economics, Harvard University, 2005 A.B., Economics, University of Chicago, with honors, 2003 Research Fields: Labor, Personnel/Organizational, Contract Theory, Education Publications: Published Journal Articles Do Recessions Accelerate Routine-Biased Technological Change? Evidence from Vacancy Postings, (with Brad Hershbein), American Economic Review, forthcoming. NBER Working Paper #22762. Discretion in Hiring (with Mitch Hoffman and Danielle Li), Quarterly Journal of Economics, forthcoming. NBER Working Paper #21709. Cyclical Job Ladders by Firm Size and Firm Wage (with John Haltiwanger, Henry Hyatt, Erika McEntarfer), AEJ: Macro, forthcoming. NBER Working Paper #23485. See also: 1
Kahn, Lisa B. and Erika McEntarfer (2014), Employment Cyclicality and Firm Quality, NBER Working Paper, #20698. Haltiwanger, John, Henry Hyatt, and Erika McEntarfer (2015), Cyclical Reallocation of Workers across Employers by Firm Size and Firm Wage, NBER Working Paper #21235 Skill Requirements across Firms and Labor Markets: Evidence from Job Postings for Professionals (with David Deming), Journal of Labor Economics, 2018. 36(S1): pp. S337-S369 NBER Working Paper #23328. Cashier or Consultant? Entry Labor Market Conditions, Field of Study, and Career Success (with Joseph G. Altonji and Jamin D. Speer), Journal of Labor Economics, 2016. 34(S1): pp. S361-S401. NBER Working Paper #20531. Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures, (with Fabian Lange), Review of Economic Studies, 2014. 81(4): pp. 1575-1613. IZA Discussion Paper #5054 Reprinted in Learning in Labor Markets (2017), edited by Michael Waldman. Trends in Earnings Differentials across College Majors and the Changing Task Composition of Jobs, (with Joseph G. Altonji and Jamin D. Speer), American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2014. 104(5): pp. 387-93. Asymmetric Information between Employers, American Economic Journal: Applied, 2013. 5(4): pp. 165-205. IZA Discussion Paper #7174. Reprinted in Learning in Labor Markets (2017), edited by Michael Waldman. The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents, (with Roland Fryer, Steven Levitt, and Jorg Spenkuch), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012. 94(3): pp. 621-634, [Lead article]. NBER Working Paper #14192. The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy, Labour Economics, 2010. 17(2): pp. 303-316 [Lead article]. Winner: Prize for best paper in Labour Economics, 2010-11. Other Articles The Great Recession Drastically Changed the Skills Employers Want, (with Brad Hershbein), Harvard Business Review, October 2017. Unemployment Insurance and Job Search in the Great Recession: Comments and Discussion, Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, Fall 2011. Working Papers: 2
Supervisors and Performance Management Systems, (with Anders Frederiksen and Fabian Lange), NBER Working Paper #23351, April 2017. (Revise and Resubmit Journal of Political Economy) Wage Regulation, Compensation Packages, and Worker Welfare (with Jeffrey Clemens and Jonathan Meer), Dec 2017. The Effect of Teen Pregnancy on Siblings Sexual Behavior, (with Priyanka Anand), December 2012 Works in Progress: Contract Design and Employee Learning (with Joshua S. Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell). Impacts of the Minimum Wage on Skill Requirements: Evidence from Job Postings (with Jeffrey Clemens and Jonathan Meer) The Box Office Return to an Academy Award Teaching: Freakonomics 2015, 2017, 2018 Competitive Strategy and the Internal Organization of the Firm, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 The Employee Perspective, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 The Employee Perspective, Executive MBA Program, 2015, 2016, 2017 External Presentations (since Spring, 2008): 2018 (includes scheduled) Copenhagen Business School, Cornell, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, George Washington, University of Maryland, World Bank 2017 AEAs, Boston College, Boston University Questrom, Claremont McKenna, Columbia Business School Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Annual Employment Conference (discussant), Georgetown McDonough, NBER Organizational Economics Program Meeting (discussant), Texas A&M, UC Berkeley Goldman, UC San Diego, University of Michigan Ross, University of Rochester, Wages Labor Market Policy and the Safety Net Conference London 2016 AEAs, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Annual Employment Conference (discussant), Federal Reserve Bank of New York (discussant), London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NBER Youth Labor Market Conference (discussant), NBER Organizational Economics Program Meeting (discussant), NBER Summer Institute Labor Studies, NBER Summer Institute Macro Perspectives, Northwestern Kellogg, Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar Santa Barbara, University of Chicago Booth, University of Chicago Harris, University of Illinois, University of Notre Dame, University of Pennsylvania Wharton, University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin, Warwick 3
2015 Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Harvard University, London School of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NBER Law and Economics Program Meeting (discussant), NBER Firms and the Distribution of Income, NBER Organizational Economics Program Meeting, NBER Summer Institute Personnel, Princeton University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar Tokyo, University of British Columbia, University of South Florida 2014 AEAs, CIREQ Montreal Macroeconomics Conference, Cornell University, CUNY, Duke University, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, GAPE Conference Aarhus University Denmark, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NBER Organizational Economics Meetings (discussant), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Western Economics Association Annual Meetings 2013 AEAs, Columbia University, Dartmouth, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Annual Employment Conference, McGill University, NBER Labor Markets After the Great Recession, NBER Summer Institute Labor Studies, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, Stavanger-Bergen Workshop, University of Delaware, University of Utah, University of Toronto 2012 Chinese Women Economists International Workshop Beijing, BLS, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Northwestern University, Trans- Pacific Labor Seminar Kyoto. 2011 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (discussant), Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Annual Employment Conference (discussant), Georgetown, IZA Research Seminar Bonn 2010 IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting, NBER Summer Institute, Princeton University, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, Utah Winter Business Economics Conference 2009 Columbia University, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, University of Connecticut, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, University of Wisconsin, Williams College 2008: Harvard Business School, NBER Summer Institute, Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, Vanderbilt University, Yale University Honors, Scholarships, and Fellowships: Winner Best paper in Labour Economics 2010/11 2007-08 Alan and Barbara Washkowitz Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowship 2006-07 Thomas Cochran Dissertation Fellowship 2003-2005 Harvard University Graduate Student Fellowship 4
Other Professional Activies: Program Committee: Society of Labor Economics Annual Meetings: 2016, 2018 Co-organizer: Yale Labor and Public Economics Workships: 2009-10, 2011-12, 2013-14, 2014-15 Participant: CeMENT, mentoring program sponsored by CSWEP, 2010 Referee American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Applied, American Economic Journal: Macro, American Economic Journal: Policy, Berkeley Electronic Press, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Journal, Economic Letters, Economics of Education Review, Economics of Transition, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Capital, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics, Management Science, Quarterly Journal of Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 5