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Phillip B. Levine
Researcher at Wellesley College
Publications - 155
Citations - 7933
Phillip B. Levine is an academic researcher from Wellesley College. The author has contributed to research in topics: Abortion & Unemployment. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 151 publications receiving 7360 citations. Previous affiliations of Phillip B. Levine include National Bureau of Economic Research & Princeton University.
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Discrimination in the Small Business Credit Market
TL;DR: The authors conducted an econometric analysis of loan outcomes by race and found that black-owned small businesses are about twice as likely to be denied credit even after controlling for differences in creditworthiness and other factors.
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Maternal Employment and Overweight Children
TL;DR: This article found that a child is more likely to be overweight if his/her mother worked more hours per week over the child's life than a non-working mother, and that it is higher socioeconomic status mothers whose work intensity is particularly deleterious for their children's overweight status.
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Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing.
TL;DR: An implementation of an instrumental variables (IV) strategy using local area MTV ratings data from a pre-period to predict local area 16 and Pregnant ratings implies that this show led to a 4.3 percent reduction in teen births.
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Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter
TL;DR: This paper examined the evidence on the reasons why teen birth rates are so uniquely high in the United States and especially in some states and concluded that having a child as a teen would not be an additional cause of poor economic outcomes.
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Extended benefits and the duration of UI spells: evidence from the New Jersey extended benefit program
TL;DR: This article examined the impact on the duration of unemployment insurance receipt of a politically motivated program that offered 13 weeks of "extended benefits" for 6 months in 1996 and found that it raised the fraction of claimants who exhausted their regular benefits by 1-3 percentage points.