Steven D. Levitt

Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance

Year: 1994
Journal: Public Choice
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; James M. Poterba

Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities

Year: 1996
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Julie Berry Cullen; Steven D. Levitt

Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bags and Seat Belt Effectiveness

Year: 1999
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; Jack Porter

An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders

Year: 2001
Journal: Journal of Public Economics
Authors: Ilyana Kuziemko; Steven D. Levitt

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

Year: 2002
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt

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

Year: 2003
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Steven D. Levitt

Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Brian A. Jacob; Steven D. Levitt

How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League

Year: 2003
Journal: Economic Journal
Authors: Steven D. Levitt

Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of Law and Economics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

Year: 2003
Journal: Journal of Human Resources
Authors: John J. Donohue III; Steven D. Levitt

The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

Year: 2003
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt

The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

Year: 2005
Journal: American Law and Economics Review
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt

Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine

Year: 2005
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Paul S. Heaton; Steven D. Levitt; Kevin M. Murphy

Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions

Year: 2005
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; Chad Syverson

Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up

Year: 2005
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt

Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

Year: 2006
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Roland G. Fryer; Steven D. Levitt

An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Steven D. Levitt

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury

Year: 2006
Journal: Economic Inquiry
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; Joseph J. Doyle

Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

Year: 2006
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: John J. Donohue III; Steven D. Levitt

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

Year: 2007
Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt

The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

Year: 2008
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Lisa Kahn; Steven D. Levitt; Jörg L. Spenkuch

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

Year: 2008
Journal: European Economic Review
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Kenneth Kovash; Steven D. Levitt

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

Year: 2009
Journal: Econometrica
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; David H. Reiley Jr.

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Sally E. Sadoff

Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

Year: 2009
Journal: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Sports Economics
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; Thomas J. Miles

Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

Year: 2012
Journal: Journal of Political Economy
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Chad Syverson

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

Year: 2012
Journal: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Susanne Neckermann; Sally Sadoff

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

Year: 2012
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt; John List; Sally Sadoff

Catching Cheating Students

Year: 2015
Journal: Economica
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; Mingjen Lin

Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

Year: 2015
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Tova Levin; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Year: 2016
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Sally Sadoff

Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness

Year: 2016
Journal: Review of Economic Studies
Authors: Steven D. Levitt

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

Year: 2019
Journal: American Law and Economics Review
Authors: John J. Donohue; Steven D. Levitt

Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Roland G. Fryer Jr.; Steven D. Levitt; John A. List; Anya Samek