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Phillip Levine

professor, economics, Wellesley

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Abortion and the Economics of Fertility

Economist Phillip Levine uses economic analysis to consider this question: how do individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases? Comparing abortion to a form of insurance, he contends that abortion provides protection from downside risk.

Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility

Author: Phillip B. Levine

Publisher: Princeton University Press (2007)

Binding: Paperback, 240 pages

Statistics and Econometrics: Methods and Applications

Author: David J. Zimmerman, Phillip B. Levine, Orley Ashenfelter

Publisher: Wiley (2006)

Binding: Hardcover, 320 pages

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