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Phillip B. Levine

Wellesley College, USA

This is a great project that will be tremendously valuable to policymakers and others. I am glad to be a participant

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics, Wellesley College, USA

Research interest

Social policy

Website

http://bit.ly/Levine_Wellesleypage

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisers, USA

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Princeton University, 1990

Selected publications

  • Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

  • “Income inequality and early non-marital childbearing: An economic exploration of the ‘culture of despair.’” Journal of Human Resources 49:1 (2014): 1–31 (with M. S. Kearney).

  • “Why is the teen birth rate in the United States so high and why does it matter?” Journal of Economic Perspectives 26:2 (2012): 141–166 (with M. S. Kearney).

  • “Subsidized contraception, fertility, and sexual behavior.” Review of Economics and Statistics 91:1 (2009): 137–151 (with M. S. Kearney).

  • “Abortion legalization and child living circumstances: Who is the ‘marginal child?’” Quarterly Journal of Economics (February 1999): 263–292 (with J. Gruber and D. Staiger).

article(s)

  • Teenage childbearing and labor market implications for women

    Teenage childbearing is less a cause of inferior labor market outcomes for women than a marker of other social problems in a girl’s life

    Phillip B. Levine, July 2014
    It is not difficult to find statistics showing that teenage childbearing is associated with poor labor market outcomes, but why is this the case? Does having a child as a teenager genuinely affect a woman’s economic potential—or is it simply a marker of problems she might already be facing as a result of her social and family background? The answer to this question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women’s lives.
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