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Kevin Lang, Chair Department of Economics Boston University

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Kevin Lang is Chair of the Boston University Economics Department. His work spans theoretical and empirical labor and education economics, including discrimination, immigration and language issues. His publications include Poverty and Discrimination (Princeton University Press, 2007) and over fifty academic articles. Dr. Lang is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and of the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration (University College, London), a member of the Advisory Board of the Canadian Employment Research Forum, a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University) and co-editor of Labour Economics. He serves on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education He has been the recipient of an Olin Foundation Fellowship, a Fullbright Fellowship and a Sloan Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, and currently has funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Labour Skills Researcher Network. He received his BA from Oxford University, his MSc from the l’Université de Montréal, and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been an elected member of the school board in Brookline, Massachusetts for eleven years.

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June 2007

The Black-White Test Score Differential