Editing Steven Levitt (section)

{{short description|American economist}}
{{Independent sources|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox economist
| school_tradition = [[Chicago School of Economics]]
| name             = Steven Levitt
| image            = Steven Levitt, 2012.jpg
| caption          = Levitt in 2012
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|1967|05|29}}
| birth_place      = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date       =
| death_place      =
| children         = 7
| nationality      = American
| institution      = [[University of Chicago]]
| field            = [[Social economics]]<br />[[Microeconomics|Applied Microeconomics]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[James M. Poterba]]<ref>[https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11964 Four essays in positive political economy]</ref>
| academic_advisors =
| doctoral_students =[[Brian Jacob]]
| notable_students =
| influences       = [[Gary Becker]]<br />[[Kevin M. Murphy|Kevin Murphy]]<br />[[Josh Angrist]]
| contributions    = ''[[Freakonomics]]'', ''[[SuperFreakonomics]]''
| awards           = [[John Bates Clark Medal]] (2003)
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| repec_prefix     = e
| repec_id         = ple59
|education=[[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br />[[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] ([[PhD]])}}

'''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<ref>{{cite web|title=Bringing math class into the data age|date=28 February 2020 |url=https://ed.stanford.edu/news/bringing-math-class-data-age}}</ref>  which incubates the Data Science for Everyone coalition.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Data Science for Everyone|url=https://www.datascience4everyone.org/|access-date=2021-09-28|website=Data Science for Everyone|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.tgggroup.com/people.htm TGG Group profile]{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref> He was chosen as one of [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine's]] "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975846_1976516,00.html?xid=fblike|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313084850/https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975846_1976516,00.html?xid=fblike|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 13, 2023|title=The 2006 Time 100 |magazine=Time |date=8 May 2006 |access-date=5 December 2016|last1=Pollack |first1=Kenneth M. }}</ref> 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]].<ref>https://econjwatch.org/file_download/487/DavisMay2011.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>