Frank Levy
Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics
Room 9-523
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
URL: http://web.mit.edu/flevy/www/
Email: flevy@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 253-2089
Current Research
How to get the benefits of medical imaging without the costs of overutilization.
Selected Publications
"Computers, Conversation, Utilization and Commoditization: The "2008 Herbert Ambrams Lecture", American Journal of Roentology, May 2009.
"Institutions and Wages in Post World War II America", Chapter 1 in Brown, Eichengreen and Reich, eds., , Labor in the Era of Globalization , Cambridge University Press, forthcoming November 2009.
"Computers and the Supply of Radiology Services: The Anatomy of a Disruptive Technology", Journal of the American College or Radiology, October 2008
Recent Classes
11.126J Economics of Education Spring 10
11.128 Information Technology and the US Labor Market Spring
11.202 Gateway: Planning Economics Fall 09
11.203 Microeconomics Fall 09
11.248 Information Technology and the US Labor Market Spring
11.249 Economics of Education Spring 10
11.800 Doctoral Research Seminar: Research and Its Impact Spring 10
Recent Awards
Recipient of a 2009-10 Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award to conduct research on the economics of medical imaging.
Additional Information
I am interested in the way computerized work is changing the job market and, through a long chain of events, how it is possible to gain the benefits of medical technology without enduring unsustainable growth in costs.
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