Steven D. Levitt

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

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 Jane Fonda Effect”: New York Times
“Payback Time”: New York Times
“Laid-Back Labor”: New York Times

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Professional Service & Recognition

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