Most Popular Books by Steven D Levitt

Steven D Levitt is the author of Freakonomics (2014), The Determinants of Juvenile Crime (1999), The Exaggerated Role of Changing Age Structure in Explaining Aggregate Crime Changes (1998), Juvenile Crime and Punishment (1997), Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed (2002).

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Freakonomics

release date: Sep 18, 2014
Freakonomics
En esta obra, Levitt y Dubner demuestran, a través de ejemplos y una sarcástica perspicacia, que la economía representa el estudio de los incentivos. ¿Qué resulta más peligroso: una pistola o una piscina? ¿Qué tienen en común un maestro de escuela y un luchador de sumo? ¿Por qué continúan los traficantes de drogas viviendo con sus madres? ¿En qué se parecen el Ku Kux Klan a los agentes inmobiliarios? Quizás éstas no sean las típicas preguntas que se formula un experto en economía, pero Steven D. Levitt y Stephen J. Dubner no son unos economistas muy típicos. Se trata de especialistas que estudian la esencia y los enigmas de la vida cotidiana y cuyas conclusiones, con frecuencia, ponen patas arriba la sabiduría convencional. A través de ejemplos prácticos y de una sarcástica perspicacia, Levitt y Dubner demuestran que la economía, en el fondo, representa el estudio de los incentivos: el modo en que las personas obtienen lo que desean, o necesitan, especialmente cuando otras personas desean o necesitan lo mismo.

The Determinants of Juvenile Crime

release date: Jan 01, 1999

The Exaggerated Role of Changing Age Structure in Explaining Aggregate Crime Changes

release date: Jan 01, 1998

Juvenile Crime and Punishment

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Juvenile Crime and Punishment
Over the last two decades the punitiveness of the juvenile justice system has declined" substantially relative to the adult courts. During that same time period juvenile violent crime" rates have grown almost twice as quickly as adult crime rates. This paper examines the degree to" which those two empirical observations are related, finding that changes in relative punishments" can account for 60 percent of the differential growth rates in juvenile and adult violent crime" between 1978 and 1993. Juvenile offenders appear to be at least as responsive to criminal" sanctions as adults. Moreover, sharp changes in criminal involvement with the transition from" the juvenile to the adult court suggest that deterrence, rather than simply incapacitation important role. There does not, however, appear to be a strong relationship between the" punitiveness of the juvenile justice system that a cohort faces and the extent of criminal" involvement for that cohort later in life.

Market Distortions when Agents are Better Informed

release date: Jan 01, 2002

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

release date: Jan 01, 1997
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