Книга: Steven Levitt «Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything»
Серия: "-" The long-awaited paperback edition of FREAKONOMICS, with a new preface, additional material, and an exclusive Q&A with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. "9780061956270 KurztextIn the summer of 2003, the New York Times Magazine sent Stephen J. Dubner, an author and journalist, to write a profile of Steven D. Levitt, a heralded young economist at the University of Chicago. Levitt was not remotely interested in the things that interest most economists. Instead, he studied the riddles of everyday life 249;from cheating to crime to child-rearing 249;and his conclusions turned the conventional wisdom on its head. For instance, he argued that one of the main causes of the crime drop of the 1990s was the legalization of abortion twenty years earlier. (Unwanted children have a greater likelihood of becoming criminals; with so many unwanted children being aborted in the 1970s, the pool of potential criminals had significantly shrunk by the 1990s.) The Times article yielded an unprecedented response, a deluge of interest from thousands of curious, inspired, and occasionally distraught readers. Levitt and Dubner collaborated on a book that gives full play to Levitt 198;s most compelling ideas. Through forceful storytelling and pungent insight. FREAKONOMICS reminds us all that economics is, at root, the study of incentives 249; how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing. Among the questions it answers: Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? If drug dealers make so much money, why do they still live with their mothers? What makes a perfect parent? And, of course: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? (Answer: they both cheat.)""9780061956270 Autorenportr 245;tSteven Levitt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and an editor of The Journal of Political Economy. In January 2004 he was awarded the John Bates Clark medal 249; for the economist under 40 who has made the greatest contribution to the discipline 249;by the American Economic Association. Stephen J. Dubner is the author of Confessions of a Hero Worshiper and Turbulent Souls and is a former writer and editor at the New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City with his family.""9780061956270 Rezension 244;If Indiana Jones were an economist, he 198;d be Steven Levitt 224; Mr. Levitt is famous not as a master of dry technical arcana but as a maverick treasure hunter who relies for success on his wit, pluck and disregard for conventional wisdom. Mr. Levitt 198;s typical quarry is hidden not in some exotic locale but in a pile of data. His genius is to take a seemingly meaningless set of numbers, ferret out the telltale pattern and recognize what it means 224; Freakonomics reads like a detective novel 224; Economists, ever wary of devaluing their currency, tend to be stinting in their praise. I therefore tried hard to find something in this book that I could complain about. But I give up. Criticizing Freakonomics would be like criticizing a hot fudge sundae 224;. The cherry on top of the sundae is Mr. Levitt 198;s co-author, Stephen Dubner, a journalist who clearly understands what he is writing about and explains it in prose that has you chuckling one minute and gasping in amazement the next. Mr. Dubner is a treasure of the rarest sort; we are fortunate that Mr. Levitt managed to find him. I think I detect a pattern. 246; (Wall Street Journal)" . Издательство: "HarperCollins Publishers" (2009)
ISBN: 978-0-06-195627-0 |
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Steven David "Steve" Levitt (born
Career
He attended
Work
His work on various
Crime
Among other papers, Levitt's work on crime includes examination of the effects of prison population, police hiring, availability of LoJack devices and legal status of abortion on crime rates.
The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime
Revisiting a question first studied empirically in the 1960s, Donohue and Levitt (2001) ("
In November 2005, two
Foote and Goetz showed that Donohue and Levitt had not done the regressions that they claimed to have done and that when Donohue and Levitt's results were done the way that Donohue and Levitt said that they should be abortion raised violent crime, not lowering it, and there was no change in property crime. Donohue and Levitt responded by arguing that their original estimates should have been done differently and that when doing it this new way turned out to not reverse or completely eliminate the link that they had originally shown. Theodore Joyce had previously criticised the results in 2003 finding that no such link existed ("Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?" Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38(1), pp. 1 -37.); however, Joyce's criticism was disputed by the authors as flawed, a result of
Prison population
Levitt's 1996 paper on prison population uses prison overcrowding litigation to estimate that increasing the prison population by 1 person is associated with a decrease of fifteen Index I crimes per year (Index I crimes include homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson).
Police hiring
In a 1997 paper on the effect of police hiring on crime rates, Levitt uses the timing of mayoral and gubernatorial elections as an
LoJack
Ayres and Levitt (1998) use a new dataset on the prevalence of
Criminal Age
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.
Politics
Levitt's work on politics includes papers on the effects of campaign spending, on the
Levitt's 1994 paper on campaign spending employs a unique identification strategy to control for the quality of each candidate (which in previous work had led to an overstatement of the true effect). It concludes that campaign spending has a very small impact on election outcomes, regardless of who does the spending. On the subject of federal spending and elections, previous empirical studies were not able to establish that members of Congress are rewarded by the electorate for bringing federal dollars to their district because of omitted variables bias. Levitt and Snyder (1997) employ an instrument which circumvents this problem and finds evidence that federal spending benefits congressional incumbents; they find that an additional $100 per capita spending is worth as much as 2 percent of the popular vote.
The 1996 paper on the median voter theorem develops a methodology for consistently estimating the relative weights in a senator's utility function and casts doubt on the median voter theorem, finding that the senator's own ideology is the primary determinant of roll-call voting patterns.
Finances of a drug gang
Levitt and
Link between drunk driving and accident rates
Levitt and Porter (2001) find that drivers with alcohol in their blood are seven times more likely to cause a fatal crash than a sober driver (those above the legal limit are 13 times more likely than a sober driver). They estimate that the
Cheating in sumo wrestling and by teachers in schools
Duggan and Levitt (2002) shows how nonlinear payoff schemes establish incentives for corruption and the authors use the nonlinearity to provide substantial statistical evidence that cheating is taking place in Japanese sumo wrestling. Brian and Levitt (2003) developed an algorithm to detect teachers who cheat for their students on standardized tests. They find that the observed frequency of cheating appears to respond strongly to relatively minor changes in incentives.
Other studies
* Testing Mixed-Strategy Equilibria When Players Are Heterogeneous: The Case of Penalty Kicks in Soccer (2002): Chiappori, Levitt, and Groseclose use penalty kicks from soccer games to test the idea of mixed strategies, a concept important to game theory. They do not reject the hypothesis that players choose their strategies optimally.
* Causes and consequences of distinctively black names (2004): Fryer and Levitt find that the rise in distinctively black names took place in the early 1970s. While previous studies found having a black name harmful, they conclude that having a distinctively black name is primarily a consequence rather than a cause of poverty and segregation.
* Discrimination in game shows (2004): Levitt uses contestant voting behavior on the US version of the television show "Weakest Link" to distinguish between
Controversy
Defamation suit
On
A federal judge found that Levitt's claim in "Freakonomics" was not defamation, [" [http://johnrlott.tripod.com/2007/01/judge-castillo-issues-decision-on-lott.html Judge Castillo issues decision on Lott v. Levitt] " on John Lott's website] but required that Levitt admit in a letter to John McCall that he himself was a peer reviewer in the 2001 issue of the "Journal of Law and Economics", that Lott had not engaged in bribery, and that he knew that "scholars with varying opinions" had been invited to participate.cite journal |last=Glenn |first=David |date= The suit is not yet complete, however; Lott has appealed the ruling regarding the "Freakonomics" passage, citing new evidence that the passage damaged him professionally. Quotes * "Regression analysis is more art than science." * "The typical expert...is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself. An expert doesn’t so much argue the various sides of an issue.... That’s because an expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn’t get much attention. An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom." elected bibliography Academic publications (in chronological order) * [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. 777-98. *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=431 | url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittTestingTheories2004.pdf | doi=10.1086/425591 |format=PDF *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 | year=Winter 2004 | volume=18 | pages=163–190 | url=http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf | doi=10.1257/089533004773563485 |format=PDF Other publications * " ee also * References External links * [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/home.html Prof. Levitt's Home Page at the University of Chicago] Press * Stephen Dubner (2003), "New York Times Magazine", [http://www.stephenjdubner.com/journalism/economist.html The Economist of Odd Questions: Inside the Astonishingly Curious Mind of Steven D. Levitt] Источник: Steven Levitt
* [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. 425-41.
* [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. 319-51.
* [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. 30-53. (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. 270-90.
* [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. 43-77 (with Ayres, Ian).
* [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittJuvenileCrimePunishment1998.pdf "Juvenile Crime and Punishment."] 1998, "Journal of Political Economy", "106"(December): 1156-1185.
* [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. 755-89. (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. 379-420. (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. 1198-237. (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. 1138-1151 (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. 1594-605. (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. 1244-50.
* [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. 843-77. (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. 767-805. (with Fryer, Roland G., Jr.)
* [http://www.freakonomics.com Official Freakonomics site and Levitt's Blog]
* [http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu The Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory]
* [http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/27846/Steven_D_Levitt/index.aspx?WT.mc_id=WIKI_AUTH_LEVITT_040607 Author bio on publisher website]
* [http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=s_levitt Video] of Steven Levitt's talk on the economic principles inside an inner-city gang. Presented February 2004 at the
* [http://timharford.com/2005/04/odd-numbers-interview-with-freakonomist-steven-levitt/ Profile of Steven Levitt in the Financial Times] ,
* [http://www.yaleeconomicreview.com/fall2005/freakonomics.php "Freakonomics" Review and Interview with Steven Levitt from Yale Economic Review] , Fall 2005
* "When Numbers Solve a Mystery," Review of Freakonomics in the Wall Street Journal, by Steven E. Landsburg. 13 April, 2005.
* " [http://www.economist.com/finance/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=5246700 Oops-onomics] " critical review of the Donohue and Levitt (2001) published in "The Economist" based upon the Foote and Goetz working paper.
* [http://www.insidenova.com/isn/news/opinion/columns/article/the_crime_rate_is_falling_why/5104/# "The crime rate is falling, Why?"] Column about Levitt in the Potomac News, Prince William County, Virginia
* [http://www.the-chiefexecutive.com/features/feature1373/ 20 Questions with Levitt in CEO Magazine]
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