Steven Levitt
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels . Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime, and is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago as well as the Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago which incubates the Data Science for Everyone coalition. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
Steven Levitt's Published Works
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Published Works
- What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World (2007) (2494)
- Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not (2004) (1149)
- Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School (2002) (1067)
- Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment (2002) (927)
- The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation (1995) (880)
- Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime (1995) (867)
- The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names (2003) (571)
- Field Experiments in Economics: the Past, the Present, and the Future (2008) (563)
- Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities (1996) (559)
- Political Parties and the Distribution of federal Outlays (1995) (536)
- An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics (2009) (482)
- The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes (1995) (475)
- How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology (1996) (467)
- The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade (2005) (467)
- Juvenile Crime and Punishment (1997) (459)
- The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries (2006) (447)
- The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools (2000) (415)
- Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House (1994) (403)
- Why are Gambling Markets Organized so Differently from Financial Markets? (2004) (377)
- Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error? (1995) (363)
- Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the U.S. Congress (1999) (358)
- Decomposing the Sources of Incumbency Advantage in the U. S. House (1997) (335)
- Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack (1997) (326)
- Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber (2016) (296)
- Viewpoint: On the Generalizability of Lab Behaviour to the Field (2007) (289)
- Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments (2009) (281)
- An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang&Apos;S Finances (1998) (274)
- Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer (2002) (263)
- Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation (1998) (259)
- What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World (2006) (250)
- Prison Conditions, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence (2003) (244)
- Winning Isn&Apos;T Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling (2000) (241)
- The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns (2014) (215)
- Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime (2001) (215)
- How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? (2001) (209)
- Homo economicus Evolves (2008) (195)
- The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests* (2001) (187)
- Congressional distributive politics and state economic performance (1994) (183)
- The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries (2003) (182)
- The Determinants of Juvenile Crime (2001) (182)
- The Relationship Between Crime Reporting and Police: Implications for the Use of Uniform Crime Reports (1998) (161)
- Is no news bad news? Information transmission and the role of ''early warning'' in the principal-agent model (1997) (148)
- “Are we a family or a business?” History and disjuncture in the urban American street gang (2000) (136)
- Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children (2006) (135)
- The Changing Relationship between Income and Crime Victimization (1999) (128)
- Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment (2007) (127)
- Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005) (2006) (125)
- Measuring Crack Cocaine and its Impact (2013) (124)
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything PDF (2015) (122)
- THE LIMITED ROLE OF CHANGING AGE STRUCTURE IN EXPLAINING AGGREGATE CRIME RATES (1999) (120)
- Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine (2005) (109)
- Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant (2012) (106)
- The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment (2016) (100)
- ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF CRIME (2006) (93)
- ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF CRIME (2006) (93)
- Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness (1999) (93)
- An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics1 (2010) (91)
- Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights (2015) (87)
- What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments (2009) (84)
- What Can Be Done To Improve Struggling High Schools (2013) (71)
- Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets (1998) (66)
- Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing (2001) (65)
- Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory (2003) (65)
- Legalized Abortion and Crime (1999) (65)
- White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System (2006) (64)
- An Empirical Analysis of Street-Level Prostitution (2007) (64)
- Incentive Compatibility Constraints as an Explanation for the Use of Prison Sentences Instead of Fines (1997) (63)
- Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study (2008) (62)
- SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (2009) (62)
- Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League (2009) (56)
- Testing the Economic Model of Crime:The National Hockey League's Two-Referee Experiment (2001) (55)
- Optimal Incentive Schemes When Only the Agents' "Best" Output Matters to the Principal (1995) (55)
- TESTING THE EFFICIENCY OF MARKETS IN THE 2002 WORLD CUP (2012) (53)
- What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes (2007) (53)
- UNDERSTANDING CRIME IN COLOMBIA AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT (2000) (50)
- The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence From the World Series of Poker (2011) (48)
- Policy Watch Congressional Campaign Finance Reform (1995) (47)
- The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Teen Childbearing (2009) (44)
- Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth (2011) (43)
- Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days (2009) (38)
- Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up (2005) (38)
- Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from (2003) (38)
- The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents (2008) (37)
- What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Professionals Do Not Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments (2010) (34)
- Think Like a Freak (2014) (33)
- The Causes and Consequences of Distinctly Black Names (2004) (31)
- ARE PACS TRYING TO INFLUENCE POLITICIANS OR VOTERS (1998) (30)
- Antitrust Implications of Home Seller Outcomes when using Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents * (2008) (30)
- Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan* (2012) (30)
- An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization (2006) (29)
- Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness (2016) (27)
- What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers (2014) (27)
- Chapter 7 Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment (2007) (25)
- Falling Behind: New Evidence on the Black-White Achievement Gap. (2004) (24)
- Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish Between Deterrence and Incapacitation* (1999) (23)
- On Modeling Risk in Markov Decision Processes (2001) (21)
- Antitrust Implications of Outcomes When Home Sellers Use Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents (2008) (20)
- The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime Over the Last Two Decades (2019) (20)
- The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime (1998) (20)
- Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime (2004) (19)
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury (2006) (19)
- Quantity discounts on a virtual good: The results of a massive pricing experiment at King Digital Entertainment (2016) (19)
- To Catch a Cheat. (2004) (17)
- Behavior in Strategic Settings: Evidence from a Million Rock-Paper-Scissors Games (2019) (17)
- Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Plant (2012) (16)
- Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics (1999) (16)
- The Hazards of Moral Hazard: Comment on Goff, Shughart, and Tollison (1998) (15)
- THE CASE OF THE CRITICS WHO MISSED THE POINT: A REPLY TO WEBSTER ET AL.* (2006) (14)
- How Do Electoral Incentives Affect Legislator Behavior ? (2018) (14)
- Is Texas Hold 'Em A Game Of Chance? A Legal and Economic Analysis (2013) (12)
- A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign (2016) (12)
- Catching Cheating Students (2015) (11)
- An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics (2003) (11)
- An Empirical Test Of Competing Explanations For The Midterm Gap In The U.S. House (1994) (10)
- Introducing Cogx: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions (2020) (9)
- The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents. NBER Working Paper No. 14192. (2008) (7)
- The Economics of Crime (2017) (7)
- Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data (2012) (5)
- The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain (2016) (5)
- Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan (2007) (4)
- Review of Drug War Heresies by MacCoun and Reuter (2003) (4)
- The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents (2008) (4)
- Bagels and donuts for sale: A case study in profit maximization (2016) (4)
- The economics of crime and the criminal justice system (1998) (3)
- Engaging Parents in Parent Engagement Programs. (2016) (3)
- The Plight of Mixed Race Kids (2012) (3)
- The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (2)
- The Economics of Education (2003) (2)
- The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes in the United States (2019) (2)
- To Catch a Cheat: The Pressures of Accountability May Encourage School Personnel to Doctor the Results from High-Stakes Tests. Here's How to Stop Them (2004) (2)
- Freakonomics. Flesh trade: why not let people sell their organs? (2006) (2)
- Think Like a Freak: How to Think Smarter About Almost Everything (2014) (2)
- The Past, Present, and Future of Economics: A Celebration of the 125-Year Anniversary of the JPE and of Chicago Economics (2017) (2)
- A Skeptical But Sympathetic Appraisal of the Prospects for Nurturant Crime-Control Policies (1997) (1)
- The Rogue Economist of Freakonomics (2006) (1)
- When to Rob a Bank: A Rogue Economist's Guide to the World (2015) (1)
- Honoring James Heckman's Contributions to Economics: Identification, Heterogeneity, and Economic Models (2002) (1)
- Field Experiments in Food and Resource Economics Research (Brian Roe, Ohio State University, Organizer) (2009) (0)
- AUTHOR: Steven D. Levitt TITLE: A Skeptical But Sympathetic Appraisal of the Prospects for Nurturant Crime-Control Policies SOURCE: Politics and the Life Sciences v16 p34-6 March ’97 (0)
- American Economic Association What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict ? (2008) (0)
- Four essays in positive political economy (1994) (0)
- Economic Analyses of Deterrence: Empirical (2008) (0)
- When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants (2015) (0)
- Study guide with practice problems for use with Microeconomics, Austan Goolsbee, Steven Levitt, Chad Syverson (2013) (0)
- WHY A RE G AMBLING M ARKETS ORGANISED SO DIFFERENTLY FROM F INANCIAL MARKETS (2004) (0)
- Deterrence (Empirical), Economic Analyses of (2008) (0)
- According to numerous studies in laboratories, workplaces, classrooms, and other settings, rewards typically undermine the very processes they are intended to enhance. (2011) (0)
- The Review of Economics and Statistics (2004) (0)
- Extremely Preliminary and Incomplete Please do not cite without permission The Impact of Crack Cocaine (2004) (0)
- 1 ON MODELING RISK IN MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES (2005) (0)
- Abstract Body Background / Context: Researchers, policymakers and educators have long recognized the role of parents in shaping student achievement. A large body of observational studies documents the strong relationship between family background and educational outcomes (2015) (0)
- Index to Volume 112 (2004) (0)
- Economics of Criminal Law (2008) (0)
- John Bates Clark Award (2004) (0)
- Index to Volume 113 (2005) (0)
- Loading “Print” (2005) (0)
- If it makes perfect sense, it's probably wrong. Interview by Bill Santamour. (2007) (0)
- Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters (2016) (0)
- Study Guide for Microeconomics (2013) (0)
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