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Steven Levitt

Global rank #98 99%

Institution: University of Chicago

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://voices.uchicago.edu/levitt/

First Publication: 1994

Most Recent: 2021

RePEc ID: ple59 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 2.01 0.00 0.00 0.00 8.04
Last 10 Years 4.02 1.17 0.00 0.00 18.94
All Time 35.26 12.40 6.03 0.00 173.87

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 51
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 57.96

Publications (51)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2021 Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness Review of Economic Studies S 1
2020 Catching Cheating Students Economica C 2
2018 The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2017 The Economics of Crime Journal of Political Economy S 1
2016 The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 4
2014 What field experiments have and have not taught us about managing workers Oxford Review of Economic Policy C 2
2013 Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children American Economic Review S 2
2013 Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant Journal of Political Economy S 3
2012 The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents Review of Economics and Statistics A 4
2012 Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2011 Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2011 Predicting and Preventing Shootings among At-Risk Youth American Economic Review S 3
2011 Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players American Economic Review S 3
2010 An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2010 EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CHILD SAFETY SEATS AND SEAT BELTS IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM INJURY Economic Inquiry C 2
2009 Field experiments in economics: The past, the present, and the future European Economic Review B 2
2008 Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2008 Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
2008 Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study American Economic Review S 3
2008 Market Distortions When Agents Are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2007 What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes American Economic Review S 5
2007 Viewpoint: On the generalizability of lab behaviour to the field Canadian Journal of Economics C 2
2006 White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System American Economic Review S 1
2005 The impact of school choice on student outcomes: an analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Journal of Public Economics A 3
2004 Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce Journal of Human Resources A 2
2004 Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2004 An empirical analysis of imprisoning drug offenders Journal of Public Economics A 2
2004 Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from Weakest Link Journal of Law and Economics B 1
2004 The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2003 An Examination of the Influence of Theory and Individual Theorists on Empirical Research in Microeconomics American Economic Review S 2
2003 Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2002 Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer American Economic Review S 1
2002 Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling American Economic Review S 2
2002 Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply American Economic Review S 1
2001 The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2001 The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests. Journal of Law and Economics B 2
2001 Growing Up in the Projects: The Economic Lives of a Cohort of Men Who Came of Age in Chicago Public Housing American Economic Review S 2
2001 Sample Selection In The Estimation Of Air Bag And Seat Belt Effectiveness Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2001 How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers? Journal of Political Economy S 2
2000 An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1999 Crime, Urban Flight, And The Consequences For Cities Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
1999 Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation. Journal of Law and Economics B 2
1999 Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance. Public Choice B 2
1998 Guns, Violence, and the Efficiency of Illegal Markets. American Economic Review S 2
1998 Juvenile Crime and Punishment Journal of Political Economy S 1
1998 Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1997 Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime. American Economic Review S 1
1997 The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes. Journal of Political Economy S 2
1996 How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senate Ideology. American Economic Review S 1
1996 The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1994 Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House. Journal of Political Economy S 1