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[BOOK] Freakonomics: A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything

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SD Levitt… - 2006 - books.google.com
Page 1. revised and expaNded ediTioN FREAKONOMICS A Rogue economist exploRes the
hidden side of eveRything “Prepare to be dazzled." —Malcolm Gladwell, author of The TiPPinG
PoinT and Blink New York Times BesTseller steven d. levitt stephen J. dubneR Page 2. ...
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Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime

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SD Levitt - 1995 - nber.org
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What do laboratory experiments measuring social preferences reveal about the real world?

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SD Levitt… - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal About the Real
World? Steven D. Levitt and John A. List Economists have increasingly turned to the experimental
model of the physical sciences as a method to understand human behavior. ...
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Understanding why crime fell in the 1990s: Four factors that explain the decline and six that do not

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SD Levitt - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004 - ingentaconnect.com
Page 1. Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the
Decline and Six that Do Not Steven D. Levitt Crime fell sharply in the United States
in the 1990s, in all categories of crime and all parts of the nation. ...
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The effect of prison population size on crime rates: Evidence from prison overcrowding litigation

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SD Levitt - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1996 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. THE EFFECT OF PRISON POPULATION SIZE ON CRIME RATES:
EVIDENCE FROM PRISON OVERCROWDING LITIGATION* STEVEN D. LEVITT
Simultaneity between prisoner populations and crime rates makes ...
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The impact of legalized abortion on crime

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J Donohue… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001 - works.bepress.com
... Correspondence can be addressed to either John Donohue, Crown Quadrangle,
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA 94305, or Steven Levitt, Department of Economics,
University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. ...
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Understanding the black-white test score gap in the first two years of school

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RG Fryer Jr… - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004 - MIT Press
Page 1. The Review of Economics and Statistics VOL. LXXXVI NUMBER 2 MAY 2004
UNDERSTANDING THE BLACK-WHITE TEST SCORE GAP IN THE FIRST TWO
YEARS OF SCHOOL Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Steven D. Levitt* ...
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Rotten apples: An investigation of the prevalence and predictors of teacher cheating

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BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
... Statistical analysis, however, may provide a means of detecting illicit acts, despite the best attempts
of perpetrators to keep them clandestine. Brian Jacob Steven Levitt Kennedy School of
Government Department of Economics Harvard University University of Chicago ...
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Juvenile crime and punishment

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SD Levitt - 1997 - nber.org
Page 1. JUVENILE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Steven D. Levitt Working Paper 6191
Page 2. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES JUVENILE CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Steven D. Levitt Working Paper 6191 http://www.nber.org ...
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An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances

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SD Levitt… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2000 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
... The National Science Foundation and the National Consortium for Violence Research provided
financial support. Correspondence should be addressed to Steven Levitt, Department of
Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637. ...
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Comparing interest group scores across time and chambers: Adjusted ADA scores for the US Congress

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T Groseclose, SD Levitt… - American Political Science Review, 1999 - JSTOR
Page 1. American Political Science Review Vol. 93, No. 1 March 1999 Comparing
Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers: Adjusted ADA Scores for the US
Congress TIM GROSECLOSE Stanford University STEVEN ...
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How do senators vote? Disentangling the role of voter preferences, party affiliation, and senator ideology

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SD Levitt - The American Economic Review, 1996 - JSTOR
Page 1. How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party
Affiliation, and Senator Ideology By STEVEN D. LEVITT * This paper develops a
methodology for consistently estimating the relative weights ...
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Political parties and the distribution of federal outlays

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SD Levitt… - American Journal of Political Science, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Political Parties and the Distribution of Federal Outlays* Steven D. Levitt, Harvard
University James M. Snyder, Jr. MIT Theory: Several models of distributive politics predict
a role for parties in determin- ing the allocation of federal outlays. ...
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Why do increased arrest rates appear to reduce crime: deterrence, incapacitation, or measurement error?

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SD Levitt - Economic Inquiry, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. WHY DO INCREASED ARREST RATES APPEAR TO REDUCE CRIME : D
ETE RR EN CE , INCA PAC I TAT I ON, 0 R MEASUREMENT ERROR? STEVEN D.
LEVITT* This paper attempts to discriminate between deterrence ...
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Using repeat challengers to estimate the effect of campaign spending on election outcomes in the US House

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SD Levitt - Journal of Political Economy, 1994 - JSTOR
Page 1. Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending
on Election Outcomes in the US House Steven D. Levitt Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Previous studies of congressional spending have ...
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The impact of federal spending on House election outcomes

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SD Levitt… - 1995 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE IMPACT OF FEDERAL SPENDING
ON HOUSE ELECTION OUTCOMES Steven D. Levitt James M. Snyder, Jr. Working
Paper No. 5002 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH ...
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Crime, urban flight, and the consequences for cities

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JB Cullen… - Review of economics and statistics, 1999 - MIT Press
... Comments can be addressed either to Julie Berry Cullen (jbcullen@umich.edu), Department
of Economics, 314 Lorch Hall, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, or to Steven Levitt
(slevitt@midway.uchicago.edu.), Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 ...
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The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - Journal of Public Economics, 2005 - Elsevier
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The causes and consequences of distinctively black names

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RG Fryer Jr… - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS Vol. CXIX August 2004 Issue
3 THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DISTINCTIVELY BLACK NAMES*
ROLAND G. FRYER, JR. AND STEVEN D. LEVITT In the 1960s ...
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Measuring positive externalities from unobservable victim precaution: an empirical analysis of Lojack

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I Ayres… - 1997 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES MEASURING POSITIVE EXTERNALITIES
FROM UNOBSERVABLE VICTIM PRECAUTION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF
LOJACK Ian Ayres Steven D. Levitt Working Paper 5928 ...
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Using sentence enhancements to distinguish between deterrence and incapacitation

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D Kessler… - 1998 - nber.org
Page 1. USING SENTENCE ENHANCEMENTS TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN
DETERRENCE AND INCAPACITATION Daniel Kessler Steven D. Levitt Working Paper
6484 Page 2. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES USING SENTENCE ...
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Using electoral cycles in police hiring to estimate the effects of police on crime: Reply

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SD Levitt - The American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
Page 1. Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police
on Crime: Reply By STEVEN D. LEVITT* Justin McCrary (2002) demonstrates that
a paper of mine on the subject of elections, police, and crime ...
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Decomposing the sources of incumbency advantage in the US House

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SD Levitt… - Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. STEVEN D. LEVITT Harvard Society of Fellows and National Bureau of
Economic Research CATHERINE D. WOLFRAM Harvard University Decomposing
the Sources of Incumbency Advantage in the US House This ...
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Testing mixed-strategy equilibria when players are heterogeneous: The case of penalty kicks in soccer

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PA Chiappori, S Levitt… - American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
The concept of mixed strategy is a fundamental component of game theory, and its
normative importance is undisputed. However, its empirical relevance has sometimes been
viewed with skepticism. The main concern over the practical usefulness of mixed ...
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Prison conditions, capital punishment, and deterrence

L Katz, SD Levitt… - American Law and …, 2003 - Am Law Econ Assoc
... The National Science Foundation provided financial support. Send correspondence
to: Steven Levitt, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637; E-mail: slevitt@midway.uchicago.edu. ...
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Winning isn't everything: Corruption in sumo wrestling

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M Duggan… - 2000 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES WINNING ISN,T EVERYTHING:
CORRUPTION IN SUMO WRESTLING Mark Duggan Steven D. Levitt Working
Paper7798 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7798 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ...
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Market distortions when agents are better informed: The value of information in real estate transactions

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SD Levitt… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008 - MIT Press
Page 1. The Review of Economics and Statistics VOL. XC NUMBER 4 NOVEMBER 2008 MARKET
DISTORTIONS WHEN AGENTS ARE BETTER INFORMED: THE VALUE OF INFORMATION IN
REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS Steven D. Levitt and Chad Syverson* ...
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Why are gambling markets organised so differently from financial markets?*

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The effect of school choice on participants: Evidence from randomized lotteries

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - Econometrica, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for enhancing academic
achievement. To evaluate the impact on participants, we exploit randomized lotteries that
determine high school admission in the Chicago Public Schools. Compared to those ...
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Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from" Weakest Link"

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SD Levitt - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TESTING THEORIES OF DISCRIMINATION:
EVIDENCE FROM WEAKEST LINK Steven D. Levitt Working Paper 9449
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9449 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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The impact of race on policing and arrests

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J Donohue, S Levitt - Journal of Law and Economics, 2001 - works.bepress.com
ABSTRACT Race has long been recognized as playing a critical role in policing. In spite of
this awareness, there has been little previous research that attempts to quantitatively
analyze the impact of officer race on tangible outcomes. In this paper, we examine the ...
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The black-white test score gap through third grade

RG Fryer Jr… - American Law and Economics Review, 2006 - rpproxy.iii.com
... Education Policy. ↵ ——— 2002. “What Doesn't Meet the Eye: Understanding Racial
Disparities in Fifteen Suburban School Districts,” mimeo. Harvard University. ↵ Fryer,
Roland, and Steven Levitt. 2004. “Understanding the ...
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Alternative strategies for identifying the link between unemployment and crime

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SD Levitt - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2001 - Springer
Page 1. Journal of Quantitatiûe Criminology, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 2001 ( 2001)
Alternative Strategies for Identifying the Link Between Unemployment and Crime
Steven D. Levitt1 National-level time series data are a crude ...
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An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders

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[PDF] The determinants of juvenile crime

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SD Levitt… - 2001 - nber.org
Page 1. This PDF is a selection from an out-of-print volume from the National Bureau of Economic
Research Volume Title: Risky Behavior among Youths: An Economic Analysis Volume
Author/Editor: Jonathan Gruber, editor Volume Publisher: University of Chicago Press ...
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Congressional distributive politics and state economic performance

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SD Levitt… - 1994 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CONGRESSIONAL DISTRIBUTIVE
POLiTICS AND STATE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Steven D. Levitt James M. Poterba
Working Paper No. 4721 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC ...
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Is no news bad news? Information transmission and the role of" early warning" in the principal-agent model

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SD Levitt… - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1997 - JSTOR
Page 1. RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter 1997 pp. 641-661 Is no
news bad news? Information transmission and the role of "early warning" in the
principal-agent model Steven D. Levitt* and Christopher M. Snyder** ...
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THE LIMITED ROLE OF CHANGING AGE STRUCTURE IN EXPLAINING AGGREGATE CRIME RATES*

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SD Levitt - Criminology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Page 1. THE LIMITED ROLE OF CHANGING AGE STRUCTURE IN EXPLAINING AGGREGATE
CRIME RATES* Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago and American Bar Foundation Changes
in the age structure are shown to have a limited impact on aggregate crime rates. ...
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Further evidence that legalized abortion lowered crime: A reply to Joyce

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J Donohue… - Journal of Human Resources, 2004 - works.bepress.com
Page 1. From the SelectedWorks of John Donohue December 2004 Further Evidence
that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce ...
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The effect of school choice on student outcomes: Evidence from randomized lotteries

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JB Cullen, BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts
seeking to enhance academic achievement. Evaluating the impact of such programs is
complicated by the fact that a highly select sample of students takes advantage of these ...
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[PDF] What do laboratory experiments tell us about the real world?

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SD Levitt… - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006 - pricetheory.uchicago.edu
Page 1. What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World? Steven D.
Levitt and John A List* University of Chicago and NBER 27 June 2006 Abstract An
important question facing experimental economists is whether ...
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How dangerous are drinking drivers?

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Field experiments in economics: the past, the present, and the future

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“Are we a family or a business?” History and disjuncture in the urban American street gang

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SA Venkatesh… - Theory and Society, 2000 - Springer
Page 1. ``Are we a family or a business?'' History and disjuncture in the urban American
street gang SUDHIR ALLADI VENKATESH and STEVEN D. LEVITT Columbia University;
University of Chicago and the American Bar Foundation ...
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The relationship between crime reporting and police: implications for the use of Uniform Crime Reports

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SD Levitt - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1998 - Springer
Page 1. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 14, No. 1, 1998 The Relationship
Between Crime Reporting and Police: Implications for the Use of Uniform Crime
Reports Steven D. Levitt1 Empirical studies that use reported ...
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The black-white test score gap through third grade

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RG Fryer… - 2005 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE BLACK-WHITE TEST SCORE GAP
THROUGH THIRD GRADE Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Steven D. Levitt Working Paper 11049
http://www.nber.org/papers/w11049 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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The changing relationship between income and crime victimization

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SD Levitt - Economic Policy Review, 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1014080 FRBNY ECONOMIC
POLICY REVIEW / SEPTEMBER 1999 87 The Changing Relationship between Income
and Crime Victimization Steven D. Levitt I. INTRODUCTION ...
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Policy watch: Congressional campaign finance reform

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SD Levitt - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. Journal of Economic Perspectives- Volume 9, Number 1-Winter 1995-Pages
183-193 Policy Watch Congressional Campaign Finance Reform Steven D. Levitt ublic
policies are often made without much recourse to economic reasoning. ...
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Sample selection in the estimation of air bag and seat belt effectiveness

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SD Levitt… - 1999 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SAMPLE SELECTION IN THE
ESTIMATION OF AIR BAGS AND SEAT BELT EFFECTIVENESS Steven D. Levitt
Jack Porter Working Paper 7210 http://www.nber.org/papers/w7210 ...
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Understanding the black-white test score gap in the first two years of school

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RG Fryer Jr… - 2002 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES UNDERSTANDING THE BLACK-WHITE TEST
SCORE GAP IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF SCHOOL Roland G. Fryer, Jr. Steven D.
Levitt Working Paper 8975 http://www.nber.org/papers/w8975 ...
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Empirical study of criminal punishment

SD Levitt… - Handbook of law and economics, 2007 - Elsevier
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Catching cheating teachers: The results of an unusual experiment in implementing theory

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BA Jacob… - 2003 - nber.org
... highlight numerous ways in which the original cheating detection methods can be improved in
the future. Brian Jacob Steven Levitt Kennedy School of Government Department of Economics
Harvard University University of Chicago 79 JFK Street 1126 East 59th Street ...
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[CITATION] Deterrence

SD Levitt - Crime: Public policies for crime …, 2002 - Oakland, CA: Institute for …
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Incentive compatibility constraints as an explanation for the use of prison sentences instead of fines

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SD Levitt - International Review of Law and Economics, 1997 - Elsevier
... 583–606. Levitt, 1996 Steven Levitt, The effect of prison population size on crime rates: Evidence
from prison overcrowding litigation. ... 319–353. Levitt, 1997 Steven Levitt, Why do increased arrest
rates appear to reduce crime: Deterrence, incapacitation, or measurement error?, . ...
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[CITATION] Homo economicus evolves

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Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field

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[BOOK] SuperFreakonomics, Illustrated Edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

SD Levitt… - 2010 - books.google.com
Page 1. New York Times BesTseller super Freakonomics steven d. levitt&stephenj.dubner Global
CoolinG, PatriotiC Prostitutes, and why suiCide bombers should buy life insuranCe *the
super-deluxe, super-illustrated edition thereof. Page 2. USA $40.00 Seeing iS believing ... ...
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Understanding crime in Colombia and what can be done about it

S Levitt… - WORKING PAPERS SERIES. …, 2000 - econpapers.repec.org
Abstract: We attempt to spell out the causes and costs of Colombia´ s crime situation.
Homicide rates are the highest in the world, three times higher than those of Brazil & Mexico
and ten times higher than those of other Latin American countries. Paradoxically, ...
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Crime, urban flight, and the consequences for cities

JB Cullen… - 1996 - nber.org
... Comments can be addressed either to Julie Berry Cullen, Building E-52, Department of Economics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142, or to Steven Levitt, Harvard Society
of Fellows, 78 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. ...
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Guns, violence, and the efficiency of illegal markets

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JJ Donohue… - The American economic review, 1998 - JSTOR
Page 1. Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets By JOHN J. DONOHUE
III AND STEVEN D. LEVITT* In economics, the standard mechanism for allocating
scarce resources is the market. A smoothly functioning market ...
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An empirical analysis of the gender gap in mathematics

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RG Fryer Jr… - 2009 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE
GENDER GAP IN MATHEMATICS Roland G. Fryer, Jr Steven D. Levitt Working Paper
15430 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15430 NATIONAL BUREAU ...
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Optimal incentive schemes when only the agents'" best" output matters to the principal

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SD Levitt - The RAND Journal of Economics, 1995 - JSTOR
Page 1. RAND Journal of Economics Vol. 26, No. 4, Winter 1995 pp. 744-760 Optimal
incentive schemes when only the agents' "best" output matters to the principal Steven
D. Levitt* Standard principal-agent models assume ...
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Testing for racial differences in the mental ability of young children

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RG Fryer… - 2006 - nber.org
... Fellowship. Mailing addresses: Roland Fryer, Littauer Building, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA 02138; Steven Levitt, Department of Economics, University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637. e-mail: rfryer@fas.harvard.edu; slevitt@uchicago.edu. ...
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[PDF] What do laboratory experiments tell us about the real world

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JA List… - NBER Working Paper, 2005 - pricetheory.uchicago.edu
Page 1. What Do Laboratory Experiments Tell Us About the Real World? John A. List
University of Chicago and NBER and Steven D. Levitt* University of Chicago and
American Bar Foundation 20 September 2005 Abstract Perhaps ...
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How do markets function? An empirical analysis of gambling on the national football league

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SD Levitt - 2003 - nber.org
Page 1. NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES HOW DO MARKETS FUNCTION? AN
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF GAMBLING ON THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Steven
D. Levitt Working Paper 9422 http://www.nber.org/papers/w9422 ...
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Economic contributions to the understanding of crime

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SD Levitt… - Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
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Measurement error, legalized abortion, and the decline in crime: A response to Foote and Goetz

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JJ Donohue III… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2008 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Page 1. MEASUREMENT ERROR, LEGALIZED ABORTION, AND THE DECLINE
IN CRIME: A RESPONSE TO FOOTE AND GOETZ* JOHN J. DONOHUE III AND
STEVEN D. LEVITT We are grateful to Foote and Goetz for noting ...
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[PDF] Testing the economic model of crime: The national hockey league's two-referee experiment

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SD Levitt - Contributions to Economic Analysis and …, 2002 - pricetheory.uchicago.edu
... Mailing address: Steven Levitt, Department of Economics, ... Chiappori, Pierre-Andre, Tim
Groseclose, and Steven Levitt, 2000, “An Empirical Test of Mixed Strategy Equilibria using
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Crime has fallen dramatically in the 1990s. While many explanations for this decline have been
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