Professor
Wellesley College
Wellesley,
MA
Biographical Sketch: Phil Levine is Katharine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. 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. He has written dozens of journal articles and five books devoted to the statistical analysis of social policy and its impact on individual behavior. His most recent book, A Problem of Fit: How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students – and Universities (University of Chicago Press) analyzes the system of pricing in higher education and ways that we can change it to improve access. Levine is also the founder and CEO of MyinTuition Corp., a non-profit organization that supplies a vastly simplified financial aid calculator to dozens of colleges and universities.