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Citations
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303
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 2003 - John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Steven D. Levitt is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States, where they conduct research primarily in the social sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, education, safety research, gender studies, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • School Choice and Performance
  • Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction

Recent published papers by Steven D. Levitt feature a range of collaborations and subject matter:

  • "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades" (2020), published in American Law and Economics Review
  • "Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment" (2022), published in American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • "Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness" (2020), published in The Review of Economic Studies
  • "A Glimpse into the world of high capacity givers: Experimental evidence from a university capital campaign" (2023), published in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • "Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions" (2020), published in SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors include:

  • John A. List
  • Roland G. Fryer
  • John J. Donohue
  • Sally Sadoff
  • Tova Levin

Publication venues regularly featuring their work are:

  • American Law and Economics Review
  • American Economic Journal Economic Policy
  • The Review of Economic Studies
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Over the course of their career, Steven D. Levitt has been recognized by several academic awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Econometric Society (2004)
  • John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economic Association (2003)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1999)

Best Publications

  • What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real World

    Steven D. Levitt;John A. List

  • Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not

    Steven D. Levitt

  • Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime

    Steven D. Levitt;Steven D. Levitt;Steven D. Levitt

  • Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

    Brian A. Jacob;Steven D. Levitt

  • Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

    Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

  • The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation

    Steven D. Levitt

  • Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime: Comment

    Steven D. Levitt

  • The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

    John J. Donohue;Steven D. Levitt

  • An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances

    Steven D. Levitt;Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

  • MARKET DISTORTIONS WHEN AGENTS ARE BETTER INFORMED: THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

    Steven D. Levitt;Chad Syverson

  • The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

    Roland G. Fryer;Steven D. Levitt

  • An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

    Roland G Fryer;Steven D Levitt

  • Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

    Steven D. Levitt;John A. List

  • Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities

    Julie Berry Cullen;Steven D. Levitt

  • Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

    Roland Fryer;Steven Levitt;John List;Sally Sadoff

  • Juvenile Crime and Punishment

    Steven D Levitt

  • Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

    Peter Cohen;Robert Hahn;Jonathan Hall;Steven Levitt

  • Political Parties and the Distribution of federal Outlays

    James M. Snyder;Steven Levitt

  • The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes

    Steven D. Levitt;James M. Snyder

  • How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology

    Steven D Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Roland G. Fryer
Roland G. Fryer Harvard University
John J. Donohue
John J. Donohue Stanford University
Brian A. Jacob
Brian A. Jacob University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Chad Syverson
Chad Syverson University of Chicago
Kevin M. Murphy
Kevin M. Murphy University of Chicago
James M. Snyder
James M. Snyder Harvard University
Robert W. Hahn
Robert W. Hahn University of Oxford
Daniel P. Kessler
Daniel P. Kessler Stanford University

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