Phil Levine is the Class of 1919 Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. He has also served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration. Phil received a BS degree with honors from Cornell University in 1985 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1990. He has been a member of the faculty at Wellesley since 1991. His research has largely been devoted to empirical examinations of the impact of government programs and social legislation on individuals’ and firms’ behavior. Recent Topics include: (1) the impact of abortion policy changes on pregnancy, abortion, and birth, (2) the impact of the business cycle on retirement behavior, and (3) the impact of health insurance policies that extend coverage to more children and young adults. Along with many publications in academic journals and edited volumes, he is the author of Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility (Princeton University Press, 2004), and the co-editor of Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited ( University of Chicago Press, forthcoming). At Wellesley, he teaches classes in social policy, probability and statistics, and econometrics.
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