Phillip B. Levine

Wellesley College

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. 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. Topics include: (1) the impact of imperfect experience rating in the unemployment insurance system on firms’ layoff behavior, (2) whether welfare recipients move between states because of differences in welfare generosity, and (3) the impact of abortion policy changes on pregnancy, abortion, and birth. Along with many publications in academic journals and edited volumes, he is also the coauthor of an introductory undergraduate econometrics textbook as well as Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility, published by Princeton University Press in 2004.