Kevin Lang Named Laurence A. Bloom Professor in Economics
Kevin Lang, a Center affiliate and Professor of Economics, has been appointed the Laurence A. Bloom Professor in Economics. The professorship was created through a bequest from CAS alumnus Laurence A. Bloom (DGE‘66, CAS‘68), and is awarded to an outstanding faculty member working in any subfield of economics. Professor Lang is an outstanding and highly active researcher with a distinguished record of accomplishment. His work covers the economics of poverty, discrimination, wage differentials, social networks, unemployment, immigration, happiness scales, black-white test score differentials, abortions, education, school integration, and other areas. His copious, diverse, well published, and policy-relevant research has made him a very high-profile economist. In the past three years alone, he has published two articles in the Journal of Political Economy, one of the top five journals in economics. His curriculum vitae records many honors and awards, including repeated grants from the National Science Foundation. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2010 and was elected President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2020. An outstanding teacher and mentor, Prof. Lang is a recipient of the Neu Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the Gerald L. Gitner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the PhD Advisor of the Year award from the Boston University Graduate Economics Student Association. Professor Lang has also made major contributions to the Department of Economics, including serving as chair, acting chair, and associate chair.