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===Academic publications (in chronological order)=== * [http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11964 "Four essays in positive political economy"] PhD Thesis, DSpace@MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingRepeatChallengers1994.pdf "Using Repeat Challengers to Estimate the Effect of Campaign Spending on Election Outcomes in the U.S. House."] ''Journal of Political Economy'', 1994, ''102''(4), pp. 777β98. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittHowDoSenatorsVote1996.pdf "How Do Senators Vote? Disentangling the Role of Voter Preferences, Party Affiliation, and Senator Ideology."] ''American Economic Review'', 1996, ''86''(3), pp. 425β41. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittTheEffectOfPrison1996.pdf "The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Prison Overcrowding Litigation."] ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 1996, ''111''(2), pp. 319β51. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittTheImpactOfFederalSpending1997.pdf "The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes."] ''Journal of Political Economy'', 1997, ''105''(1), pp. 30β53. (with Snyder, James M. Jr.). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingElectoralCycles1997.pdf "Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Police on Crime."] ''American Economic Review'', 1997, ''87''(3), pp. 270β90. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittAyres1998.pdf "Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack."] ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 1998, ''113''(1), pp. 43β77 (with Ayres, Ian). * {{cite journal|title=Juvenile Crime and Punishment|journal=Journal of Political Economy|date=1998|volume=106|issue=6|pages=1156β85|doi=10.1086/250043|url=https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jpolec/v106y1998i6p1156-1185.html|last1=Levitt|first1=Steven D.|s2cid=158207361}} * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittVenkateshAnEconomicAnalysis2000.pdf "An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances."] ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2000, ''115''(3), pp. 755β89. (with Venkatesh, Sudhir A.). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DonohueLevittTheImpactOfLegalized2001.pdf "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime."] ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2001, ''116''(2), pp. 379β420. (with Donohue, John J., III). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittPorterHowDangerousAre2001.pdf "How Dangerous Are Drinking Drivers?"] ''Journal of Political Economy'', 2001, ''109''(6), pp. 1198β237. (with Porter, Jack) . * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/ChiapporiGrosecloseLevitt2002.pdf "Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer."] ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92'', pp. 1138β51 (With Chiappori, Pierre-Andre and Groseclose, Timothy). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/DugganLevitt2002.pdf "Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling."] ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92''(5), pp. 1594β605. (with Duggan, Mark). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUsingElectoralCycles2002.pdf "Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effects of Police on Crime: Reply."] ''American Economic Review'', 2002, ''92''(4), pp. 1244β50. * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/JacobLevitt2003.pdf "Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating]" ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2003, ''118''(3), pp. 843β77. (with Jacob, Brian A.). * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/FryerLevitt2004.pdf "The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names."] ''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', 2004, ''119''(3), pp. 767β805. (with Fryer, Roland G. Jr.) * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=Testing Theories Of Discrimination: Evidence From Weakest Link | journal=Journal of Law and Economics | year=2004 | volume=47 | pages=431β53 | url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittTestingTheories2004.pdf | doi=10.1086/425591 | issue=2| citeseerx=10.1.1.312.2078 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not | journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives | date=Winter 2004 | volume=18 | pages=163β90 | url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf | doi=10.1257/089533004773563485 | citeseerx=10.1.1.210.3073 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League | journal=Economic Journal | date=2004 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools | journal=Journal of Public Economics | date=2004 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D.(with Roland G. Fryer) | title=The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade | journal=American Law and Economics Review | date=2005 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Rubio, Mauricio) | title=Understanding Crime in Columbia and What Can Be Done About it | journal=Institutional Reforms: The Case of Columbia | date=2005 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=The Case of the Critics Who Missed the Point: A Reply to Webster et al. | journal=Criminology and Public Policy | date=2006 | volume=5 | issue=3 | pages=449β460 | doi=10.1111/j.1745-9133.2006.00400.x }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Cullen, JB, Jacob, BA) | title=The Effect of School Choice on Participants: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries | journal=Econometrica | date=2006 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=White-Collar Crime Writ Small: A Case Study of Bagels, Donuts, and the Honor System | journal=American Economic Review | date=2006 | volume=96 | issue=2 | pages=290β294 | doi=10.1257/000282806777212161 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Gil, R) | title=Testing the Efficiency of Markets in the 2002 World Cup | journal=Journal of Prediction Markets | date=2007 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List) | title=Viewpoint: On the Generalizability of Lab Behavior in the Field | journal=Canadian Journal of Economics | date=2007 | volume=40 | issue=2 | pages=347β370 | doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.00412.x | doi-access=free }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List) | title=What Do Laboratory Experiments Measuring Social Preferences Reveal about the Real World? | journal=Journal of Economic Perspectives | date=2007 | volume=21 | issue=2 | pages=153β174 | doi=10.1257/jep.21.2.153 | url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/00480.pdf }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Susan Athey, Lawrence F. Katz, Alan B. Krueger, James Poterba) | title=What Does Performance in Graduate School Predict? Graduate Economics Education and Student Outcomes | journal=American Economic Review | date=2007 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Syverson, Chad) | title=Antitrust Implications of Home Seller Outcomes when using Flat-Fee Real Estate Agents | journal=Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Economics | date=2008 | doi=10.1353/urb.2008.a249797 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List) | title=Economics: Homo Economicus Evolves | journal=Science | date=2008 | volume=319 | issue=5865 | pages=909β910 | doi=10.1126/science.1153640 | pmid=18276876 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D.| title=Evidence that Seat Belts Are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children | journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics | date=2008 | doi=10.1162/rest.90.1.158 | url=http://papers.nber.org/papers/w11591.pdf }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Fryer, Roland, John List) | title=Exploring the Impact of Financial Incentives on Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Pilot Study | journal=AEA Papers and Proceedings | date=2008 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Syverson, Chad) | title=Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in RealEstate Transactions | journal=Review of Economics and Statistics | date=2008 | volume=90 | issue=4 | pages=599β611 | doi=10.1162/rest.90.4.599 | url=http://www.nber.org/papers/w11053.pdf }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Donohue, John) | title=Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz | journal=Quarterly Journal of Economics | date=2008 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with David Herberich, John List) | title=Can Field Experiments Return Agricultural Economics to the Glory Days? | journal=American Journal of Agricultural Economics | date=2009 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List) | title=Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, the Present, and the Future | journal=European Economic Review | date=2009 | volume=53 | pages=1β18 | doi=10.1016/j.euroecorev.2008.12.001 | url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/00079.pdf }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Donohue, John J., Jeff Grogger) | title=The impact of legalized abortion on teen childbearing | journal=American Law and Economics Review | date=2009 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Roland Fryer) | title=An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics | journal=American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | date=2010 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Joseph Doyle) | title=Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury | journal=Economic Inquiry | date=2010 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List, David Reilly) | title=What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments | journal=Econometrica | date=2010 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List, Sally Sadoff) | title=Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction among Chess Players | journal=American Economic Review | date=2011 | volume=101 | issue=2 | pages=975β990 | doi=10.1257/aer.101.2.975 | url=http://s3.amazonaws.com/fieldexperiments-papers2/papers/00081.pdf }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Dana Chandler, John A. List) | title=Predicting and Preventing Shootings Among At-Risk Youth | journal=American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings | date=2011 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with John List) | title=Was there really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments | journal=American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | date=2011 | volume=3 | pages=224β238 | doi=10.1257/app.3.1.224 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Roland Fryer) | title=Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan | journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics | date=2012 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. | title=Identifying Terrorists using Banking Data | journal=The B.E. Journal of Economics Analysis and Policy | date=2012 | volume=13 | issue=3 | doi=10.1515/1935-1682.3282 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Thomas J. Miles, Andrew M. Rosenfield) | title=Is Texas Hold 'Em a Game of Chance? A Legal and Economic Analysis | journal=The Georgetown Law Journal | date=2012 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Roland Fryer, Lisa Kahn, Jorg Spenkuch) | title=The Plight of Mixed-Race Adolescents | journal=Review of Economics and Statistics | date=2012 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Thomas J. Miles) | title=The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker Evidence from the World Series of Poker | journal=Journal of Sports Economics | date=2012 }} * {{cite journal | author=Levitt, Steven D. (with Roland G. Fryer, Paul S. Heaton, Kevin M. Murphy) | title=Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine | journal=Economic Inquiry | date=2013 }}
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