Researching Steven Levitt
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1000 people with the Levitt surname? In that year Levitt was ranked number 2592 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Steven means "crown" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Steven Levitt on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Steven Levitt and the Levitt Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 1262 people with the Levitt surname in the UK? Levitt is now ranked number 2879 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Levitt surname in the USA? Levitt is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Steven Levitt
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. In 2009, Levitt co-founded TGG Group, a business and philanthropy consulting company. He was chosen as one of Time magazine's "100 People Who Shape Our World" in 2006. A 2011 survey of economics professors named Levitt their fourth favorite living economist under the age of 60, after Paul Krugman, Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.
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