Steven Levitt

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steven Levitt
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	May 29, 1967(1967-05-29)
Age	57
Birthplace	New Orleans
Country	United States
Birth City	Louisiana
Horoscope	Gemini

Steven Levitt Biography

Steven Levitt is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on May 29, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Levitt was born to a Jewish family in 1967, and attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from Harvard University in 1989 with his AB in economics summa cum laude, and then worked as a consultant at Corporate Decisions, Inc. (CDI) in Boston advising Fortune 500 companies. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. He is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of The Becker Center on Price Theory at the University of Chicago. In 2003 he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded every two years by the American Economic Association to the most promising U.S. economist under the age of 40. In April 2005 Levitt published his first book, Freakonomics (coauthored with Stephen J. Dubner), which became a New York Times bestseller. Levitt and Dubner also started a blog devoted to Freakonomics.

Steven David Levitt (born May 29, 1967) is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels (along with Stephen J. Dubner). Levitt was the winner of the 2003 John Bates Clark Medal for his work in the field of crime, and is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago as well as the Faculty Director and Co-Founder of the Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change at the University of Chicago. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December

2007. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine’s “100 People Who Shape Our World” in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.

Steven Levitt Net Worth

Steven Levitt is one of the richest Economist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steven Levitt 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Revisiting a question first studied empirically in the 1960s, Donohue and Levitt argued that the legalization of abortion can account for almost half of the reduction in crime witnessed in the 1990s. This paper has sparked much controversy, to which Levitt has said

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Another 1998 paper finds that juvenile criminals are at least as responsive to criminal sanctions as adults. Sharp drops in crime at the age of maturity suggest that deterrence plays an important role in the decision to commit a crime.

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Subrata Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Steven Levitt celebrates birthday on May 29 of every year.

Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh (2000) analyzed a unique dataset which details the financial activities of a drug-selling street gang. They found that wage earnings in the gang were somewhat higher than legal market alternatives, but did not offset the increased risks associated with selling drugs. They suggested that the prospect of high future earnings is the primary economic motivation for being in a gang.

What is Steven Levitt doing now?

He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1994. He is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor and the director of Gary Becker Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago.

Does Steven Levitt still teach?

Steve has taught at the University of Chicago since 1997. He is not currently teaching any courses.

Does Steven Levitt teach at Uchicago?

Steve Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, where he directs the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory. Levitt received his BA from Harvard University in 1989 and his PhD from MIT in 1994. He has taught at Chicago since 1997.

How old is Steven Levitt?

55 years (May 29, 1967)

What surprising reason does Economist Steven Levitt put forward as the

real reason that crime rates went down in the 1990's What does he use to support this idea?

What Levitt and his co-author claimed, specifically, was that the sharp drop in the United States crime rate during the 1990’s — commonly attributed to factors like better policing, stiffer gun laws and an aging population — was in fact largely due to the Roe v. Wade decision two decades earlier.