Steven Levitt

I am all for abortions. Women should be able to make their own choice without taking criticism for their actions or needing the consent from anybody else. Both supporting and opposing sides have some reasonable arguments but at the end of the day, nobody should be told what they can’t do in life unless it is totally illegal. People control their own lives with abortion, nothing more nothing less. What somebody decides to do with their life shouldn’t affect you in no type of way unless it…

work. In fact, it is quite the opposite, in a 1997 study done by economist John Lott shows that the increase in concealed carry throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s resulted in lower crime rates across the United States. “Therefore, When economist Steven Levitt conducted a study he found that gun control laws played little to no part of the drop in crime.” In 2016 Chicago alone reported over 700 homicides, more than New York and Los Angeles combined, despite the city’s…

adults. However, the recent rise in the drug trade and the availability of crack-cocaine has led to the “corporatization” of street gangs. I will be analyzing two articles, the first ““An Economic Analysis of A Drug-Selling Gang’s Finances” by Steven D. Levitt and Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, and the second “Youth Gangs as Pseudo-Governments: Implications for Violent Crime” by Russell S. Sobel and Brian J. Osoba. The first article discusses why joining a gang is not economically rational. This is…

Freakonomics can be seen as the study of economics based on the principle of incentives. In the movie, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner gives multiple examples of how incentives govern our thoughts and actions and its role in economics. The first example explored was the unlikeliness of a house agent to wait to sell a client house for a higher price. The simple reason is the low incentive. If the agent was to wait another week to sell the house for a price that is only 10k higher, they would get…

A touchy subject that some say shouldn’t be protested out on the streets. While others argue that it is God’s will to lead the public to righteousness. The heated debate about abortion has been going on long before Roe vs Wade and will certainly continue long after. Woman across the country have stood up and spoken out for their right to make their own reproductive choice. Authors, scientist, and philosophers have all taken a stance to show the great impacts the world has seen since the…

An interview was conducted to have a better understanding of the pro- life beliefs. During the interview, the respondent gave their viewpoint to why they believe abortion should become illegal. When asking the interviewee why they feel as though abortion is wrong, their response was, “Frankly, it’s still straight up murder, of a defenseless child” (Participant 1). They go into detail describing why abortion is murder. The respondent starts off by stating that in two to three weeks, an embryo is…

“limit”. When that happens the mother has a 76% of ending up unemployed, to be on public welfare and under poverty line, and become victims of domestic violence. Unlike the other 44% of women who have had an abortion. Also according to Dr. Stevens D. Levitt, 18 years after abortion was legalized crime rates began to drop abruptly Crime is reduced when accessed to a legal abortion…

in foster care had a 31.6% chance of getting into drugs or crimes. If abortion was made illegal these numbers would become greater. There would be more unwanted children and an upheaval rate of crime in cities in general. In 2005 a man named Steven Levitt wrote a book called Feakonomics, and a section in his book comments on the relation of legalized abortion and city crime. When Roe v Wade was passed there was a decrease in crime by 30% because by the 1980’s the unwanted children that would…

economics--or, more specifically, incentives. It turns out terrorism, unlike crime, is not committed out of self-interest and survival, but out of desire for influence and change. Therefore, describing terrorism as “civic passion on steroids,” Steven D. Levitt suggests in Superfreakonomics that it is easier to instead match a terrorist’s incentives to that of a voter. Educated individuals are more likely to engage with the political activity in their country and therefore become the demographic…

surroundings—faculty, resources, and classes—as well. UChicago’s renowned economics program is celebrated historically for housing Milton Friedman and Gary Becker amongst other laureates of the School of Economics. This acclaimed roster, featuring Steven Levitt of Freakonomics, offers a level of rigor that cannot be found at other peer institutions. What differentiates UChicago from other institutions, however, is the accessibility of recognized economists. The Friedman Forum, a series of…