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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). In 2008-9, I am in residence at the Harvard Medical School Department of Healthcare Policy. While there, I am studying alternative plans to define and limit unnecessary medical imaging. Two recent papers from this work can be downloaded below. Other on-going research examines the ways that computer technology and offshoring are reshaping opportunities in the labor market. Two papers in this area can be downloaded below: one on how computers are changing worker skill requirements, the other on the extent to which radiology work is being offshored. Also below is the 2005 reading list for a course I have taught in this area. Much of this work is described in The New Division of Labor: How Computers are Creating the Next Job Market co-authored with Richard J. Murnane (Princeton University Press, paperback edition 2005). I have also done research on U.S. income inequality and living standards and the economics of education. The New Dollars and Dreams (1999) recounts the history of United States incomes and the income distribution from the close of World War II through the present. 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. 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 of working for a law firm and is now clerking for a federal judge. Working Papers on Radiology, Computers, Offshoring and Labor Demand:
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