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Steven Levitt

1967 - Today

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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 which incubates the Data Science for Everyone coalition. He was co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press until December 2007. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steven Levitt has received more than 803,652 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Steven Levitt is the 369th most popular economist (down from 309th in 2019), the 15,074th most popular biography from United States (down from 13,090th in 2019) and the 118th most popular American Economist.

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  • 31.28

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  • 16

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  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Steven Levitt ranks 369 out of 315Before him are Olga Golodets, Alan Krueger, Gita Gopinath, Yochai Benkler, Eric Lander, and Winona LaDuke. After him are Christina Romer, Dambisa Moyo, Tyler Cowen, Thomas DiLorenzo, Urjit Patel, and Cecilia Rouse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Steven Levitt ranks 680Before him are Nick Nurse, Colin Jackson, Edinho Baiano, Walter Kogler, Hisashi Tsuchida, and Fátima Báñez. After him are Chris Vrenna, Uwe Dassler, Stuart Conquest, Nikolay Bukhalov, Wilson Pérez, and Peter Rono.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steven Levitt ranks 15,074 out of 18,182Before him are Sara Foster (1981), Madeline Manning (1948), Kyle Bornheimer (1975), Darrell Armstrong (1968), Yolanda Adams (1961), and Pablo Morales (1964). After him are Stephen Thompson (1983), Steven Sotloff (1983), Azealia Banks (1991), Andrew Bynum (1987), Michael Cole (1968), and Sunny Mabrey (1975).

Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Steven Levitt ranks 118Before him are Peter Navarro (1949), Claudia Goldin (1946), Ardo Hansson (1958), Alan Krueger (1960), Eric Lander (1957), and Winona LaDuke (1959). After him are Christina Romer (1958), Tyler Cowen (1962), Cecilia Rouse (1963), and Susan Athey (1970).