Steven Levitt

Prostitution investigations often involve joint task forces from multiple agencies with city, county, and state officials. In addition, many of these investigations are also coordinated with various federal authorities such as the FBI, ATF, and the Department of Homeland Security. Yes, your tax dollars pay for undercover police officers and federal agents to sit in massage parlors and seedy strip clubs, for months at a time, ordering drinks and lap dances. Ultimately, the only constructive…

world is very complicating and problems always exist to life. Every time, people keep continuing to find ways so as to solve their questions, and they also have many ways to get answers for them to choose. However, in uncountable ways of solutions, Steven D.Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner believed that thinking like a Freak might be one solution for each question. So that the book “Think like a Freak” was written in order to teach people a different way of thinking. In the book “Think Like a…

Since abortion became legal in the United States in 1973 it has been one of the most controversial subjects in politics, and there is a good reason for this. For those who think life begins at conception they consider this operation barbaric and cruel, while those who want a woman to do what is best for her, believe that this surgery is a great way to get rid of unwanted pregnancies. However whether one is for or against abortion statistics show that it has been very helpful in the United States…

Abortion will always be considered immoral, that is when the issue is viewed through a deontological paradigm. The fact is pondering abortion through the prism of deontology is viewing the procedure with no context, and reducing the situation to a life or at least the possibility of one is being terminated. It should be reasonably apparent that this argument and viewpoint is substantially impractical. When immersed in the actual varying circumstances of our world, there are several factors that…

According to The New York Times, Ohio is close to approving a law that allows parents to have concealed weapons in their cars when dropping off their preschoolers to school and they are allowed to conceal them on themselves in the designated “victim zones” (The Editorial Board, 2015). There is a lot of backlash, mostly from the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America group. They argue that this will lead to more damage because people who are concealing their weapons will want to be a…

“I would like to see the day that the death penalty is abolished. I doubt it will be in my lifetime, but I want to use my life to contribute as I can to this cause that I believe in.” said Greg Wilhoit, who was proved innocence and was released in 1993 after spending five years on death row. Grey once had a happy family, but a tragedy changed his whole life. On June 1, 1985, Grey’s wife Kathy was murdered in Tulsa and Grey was changed with Kathy’s murder because of misjudgment. Although he is…

provided a stimulating educational experience, in others, children attended classes where they took part in learning activities. The outcome of Project Head Start received mixed reviews, from critical to approving. One of the main critics was Steven D. Levitt, who concluded that participation in this programme has had no impact on the long term school achievements and increase in IQ score. Magnuson and Ruhm (2004) on the other hand also concluded that participation in Head Start project had a…

John Kenneth Galbraith talks about “conventional wisdom.” He says, “people associate truth with convenience. He describes conventional wisdom as something that is comforting and convenient and doesn’t necessarily need to be true information. Galbraith also describes advertising as a brilliant tool for creating conventional wisdom. For example, Listerine, created in the 19th century was originally a surgical antiseptic tool began being sold as a distilled form and used for a floor cleaner…

The political parties have been part of the United States government for as long as anyone can remember, but the question is: should they be? There are multiple perspectives on this, one being that political parties benefit the system, another being that political parties are the problem. As a country, it’s not often considered that we could be doing something wrong --especially in government -- but it’s time to open our minds and consider it. Long before many can actually remember, George…

Children born to mothers without a partner are often times financially unstable. They are not placed in adequate schooling and reside in high rates of poverty. Correlated with poverty, crime rates increase. Steven D. Levitt Ph.D. published an article stating this, “legalizing abortion has contributed significantly to crime reductions”(ProCon.org). So why are crime rates going down. It is simply because the mothers are not in an economical situation to securely and…