Phillip B. Levine

Phillip B. Levine is the Catherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor in the Department of Economics at Wellesley, an NBER research associate, a research affiliate of the National Poverty Center, and a member of NASI. From 1996 to 1997, he served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers. His publications include an undergraduate econometrics textbook and Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility (Princeton, 2004).

A problem of fit: Tackling affordability and pricing in higher education

Phillip Levine, Kristin F. Butcher, and Coura Fall

Monday, May 16, 2022

Phillip B. Levine

The racial wealth gap, financial aid, and college access

A problem of fit: Tackling affordability and pricing in higher education

A problem of fit: How the complexity of college pricing hurts students—and universities

The US COVID-19 baby bust and rebound

Leave the 568 group colleges alone

Early evidence of missing births from the COVID-19 baby bust

Nobel winner David Card’s former students on how he bridged economics and the social sciences, created the most important 15 minutes of their day, and marked up papers with an X-Acto knife

Republicans are wrong; Doubling the Pell Grant is good policy

Will births in the US rebound? Probably not.

The coming COVID-19 baby bust is here