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Steven D. Levitt

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Research Professor- On Leave

Joint appointment

Alvin H. Baum Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bio

Steven D. Levitt is a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. He is also the Alvin H. Baum Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, and is the director of The Becker Center on…

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Research focus

Crime, the criminal justice system, and corruption, and a wide variety of issues related to racial disparity and education.

Projects

Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine
Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Roland Fryer
This project is developing a statistical index to measure the extent to which crack cocaine can account for the adverse trends in many indicators of African American progress in major urban areas…

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Publications

“The Plight of Mixed-race Adolescents”
Review of Economics and Statistics
“Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth”
American Economic Review
"Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players"
American Economic Review

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Presentations

Keynote Speaker, University Foundation Banquet
Sep 2011
William E. Simon Memorial Lecture, 2011 Simon New York City Conference
May 2011
SuperFreakonomics
Nov 2009

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Professional Service & Recognition

  • Director, Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory, University of Chicago
  • Editor, Journal of Political Economy

Links

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