Phillip Levine

Phillip Levine is the Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn 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. Levine received a bachelor’s degree with honors from Cornell University in 1985 and a Ph.D. 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 social policy on individual behavior. 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, coauthor of Reconsidering Retirement: How Losses and Layoffs Affect Older Workers, and coeditor of Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited.

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In this policy memo, Phillip B. Levine proposes that nongovernmental organizations—including nonprofits, foundations, and charitable organizations—as well as private-sector entities expand community-based mentoring programs, such as the Big Brothers Big Sisters program, in accordance with a set of best practices. This proposal, targeted at disadvantaged youth who have few or no adult role models in their lives, aims to improve educational and labor market outcomes for disadvantaged youth. This proposal is chapter four of The Hamilton Project’s Policies to Address Poverty in America, and a segment in Supporting Disadvantaged Youth.

The lack of clear information about the widening gap in perceived and actual costs of college can act as an impediment in students' decision-making process. In his new Hamilton Project proposal, Phillip Levine proposes a way to simplify and improve the transparency of college cost estimates based on a pilot program currently underway at Wellesley College.

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