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A Glimpse into the World of High Capacity Givers: Experimental Evidence from a University Capital Campaign

scientific article published in March 2016

An Economic Analysis of a Drug-Selling Gang's Finances

scientific article published in June 1998

An Economist Sells Bagels: A Case Study in Profit Maximization

scientific article published in April 2006

An Empirical Analysis of Imprisoning Drug Offenders

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

scientific article published in October 2009

Catching Cheating Students

scientific article published in October 2015

Catching Cheating Teachers: The Results of an Unusual Experiment in Implementing Theory

scientific article published in January 2003

Checkmate: Exploring Backward Induction Among Chess Players

scientific article published in December 2009

Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance

Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities

scientific article published in September 1996

Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Loss Aversion: A Field Experiment

Estimating the Effect of Alcohol on Driver Risk Using Only Fatal Accident Statistics

scientific article published in February 1999

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Child Safety Seats and Seat Belts in Protecting Children from Injury

scientific article published in September 2006

Evidence that Seat Belts are as Effective as Child Safety Seats in Preventing Death for Children Aged Two and Up

scientific article published in September 2005

Field Experiments in Economics: The Past, The Present, and The Future

scientific article published in September 2008

Freakonomics

2005 nonfiction book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1) (translation)

book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Further Evidence that Legalized Abortion Lowered Crime: A Reply to Joyce

scientific article published in March 2003

Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan

scientific article published in September 2007

Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness

scientific article published in August 2016

How Do Markets Function? An Empirical Analysis of Gambling on the National Football League

scientific article published in January 2003

Introducing CogX: A New Preschool Education Program Combining Parent and Child Interventions

scientific article published in October 2020

Juvenile Crime and Punishment

scientific article published in September 1997

Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed: The Value of Information in Real Estate Transactions

Measurement Error, Legalized Abortion, and the Decline in Crime: A Response to Foote and Goetz (2005)

scientific article published in January 2006

Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack

scientific article published in February 1997

Measuring the Impact of Crack Cocaine

scientific article published in May 2005

Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights

scientific article published in August 2015

Professionals Do Not Play Minimax: Evidence from Major League Baseball and the National Football League

scientific article published in September 2009

Rotten Apples: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Predictors of Teacher Cheating

scientific article published in January 2003

Sample Selection in the Estimation of Air Bag and Seat Belt Effectiveness

scientific article published in July 1999

Steven Levitt: Surprising stats about child carseats

TEDGlobal 2005

Steven Levitt: The freakonomics of crack dealing

TED2004

SuperFreakonomics

book

SuperFreakonomics (translation)

Testing Theories of Discrimination: Evidence from "Weakest Link"

scientific article published in January 2003

Testing for Racial Differences in the Mental Ability of Young Children

scientific article published in March 2006

The Behavioralist Goes to School: Leveraging Behavioral Economics to Improve Educational Performance

scientific article published in June 2012

The Black-White Test Score Gap Through Third Grade

scholarly article published January 2005

The Causes and Consequences of Distinctively Black Names

scientific article published in September 2003

The Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina on its Victims: Evidence from Individual Tax Returns

scientific article published in December 2014

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

scientific article published in March 2016

The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence From Prison Overcrowding Litigation

scientific article published in May 1995

The Effect of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

scholarly article published November 2003

The Impact of Federal Spending on House Election Outcomes

scientific article published in January 1995

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime

scientific article published in November 2000

The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades

scholarly article published May 2019

The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime

scientific article published in November 1998

The Impact of School Choice on Student Outcomes: An Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools

scholarly article published September 2000

The Plight of Mixed Race Adolescents

scientific article published in July 2008

The Role of Skill Versus Luck in Poker: Evidence from the World Series of Poker

scientific article published in May 2011

Think Like a Freak

book by Stephen J. Dubner

Think Like a Freak

Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

scientific article published in April 2012

Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not

scholarly article by Steven D. Levitt published February 2004 in Journal of Economic Perspectives

Understanding the Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School

scientific article published in June 2002

Using Big Data to Estimate Consumer Surplus: The Case of Uber

scientific article published in September 2016

Using Electoral Cycles in Police Hiring to Estimate the Effect of Policeon Crime

scientific article published in January 1995

Using Sentence Enhancements to Distinguish between Deterrence and Incapacitation

scientific article published in March 1998

Was there Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments

scientific article published in May 2009

What Happens in the Field Stays in the Field: Exploring Whether Professionals Play Minimax in Laboratory Experiments

scientific article published in December 2009

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

book by Steven Levitt

Why Do Increased Arrest Rates Appear to Reduce Crime: Deterrence, Incapacitation, or Measurement Error?

scientific article published in September 1995

Winning Isn't Everything: Corruption in Sumo Wrestling

scientific article published in July 2000

Freakonomie: skrytá ekonomie všeho

book edition published in 2015