Lawrence Kahn

Lawrence Kahn

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in July 2025

Research area
Labour Economics Wage Inequality Gender Sports Economics Employment Protection

About Lawrence Kahn

Lawrence M. Kahn is the Braunstein Family Professor and Professor of Economics, Emeritus. He is an elected Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He is a Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Studies/Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, Germany, of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, and of the National Centre for Econometric Research in Australia (Sportometrics Program). He was Chair of the Labor Economics Department at Cornell during 1998-99 and 2000-2005, was Co-Editor of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review (now the ILR Review) from 2011 to 2024, is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sports Economics and the ILR Review, served as Associate Editor of the Industrial & Labor Relations Review and Specialized Co-Editor (for Sports Economics) of Economic Inquiry and was on the Board of Editors of Industrial Relations. Before joining the Cornell faculty in 1994, he was a Professor of Economics and Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois. He has served as Visiting Fellow in the Economics Department of Princeton University, Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York, Visiting Scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Visiting Scholar at the Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation in Uppsala, Sweden, and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University. He has also served as a member of the National Academy Sciences Committee on Women's Employment and Related Social Issues.