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Frank Levyflevy@mit.edu Phone (for 2008-9): 617-432-3430 Fax: 617-258-8594 I am Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). My current work focuses on the problem of defining and restraining unnecessary medical imaging - a part of "Bending the Curve" of rising medical costs My work to this point is described in "Notes on Imaging and Healthcare Reform" begun while I was in residence at the Harvard Medical School Department of Healthcare Policy. Three other papers on the economics of radiology can be downloaded below. Other research examines the ways that computer technology and offshoring are reshaping opportunities in the labor market. The work is summarized in this chapter and in The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market , (Princeton University Press, paperback edition 2005). Both the chapter and the book are co-authored with Richard J. Murnane. I also do research on U.S. income inequality and living standards and the economics of education. My 2007 paper with Peter Temin, "Inequality and Institutions in 20'th Century America" can be downloaded at no charge from SSRN by clicking this title. I presented a short version of this work in the first Bernie Saffran Memorial Lecture, delivered at Swarthmore College, November 15, 2007. Teaching the New Basic Skills (with Richard J. Murnane) (1996) examines the growing mismatch between what K-12 schools teach and what employers require and case studies of schools who have worked to close that gap. At MIT, I teach the microeconomics course directed at students in our Masters of City Planning program. I also teach an undergraduate course on the Economics of Education - the reading list for the 2008 version appears below and will be updated later this year. I live in Newton, Massachusetts with my wife, Kathy Swartz, a Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Our son, Dave, is working for an alternative energy firm after working for five years in New York City government and completing an MBA. Our daughter, Marin, recently finished a year clerking for a court of appeals judge and is now a Lecturing Fellow at a law school. Working Papers on Radiology.
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