John Richard Lott Jr. is an American economist,political commentator,and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center,a nonprofit he founded in 2013. He worked in the Office of Justice Programs within the U.S. Department of Justice under the Donald Trump administration from October 2020 to January 2021. Lott holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.
A theory regarding the effect of legalized abortion on crime is a controversial hypothesis about the reduction in crime in the decades following the legalization of abortion. Proponents argue that the availability of abortion resulted in fewer births of children at the highest risk of committing crime. The earliest research suggesting such an effect was a 1966 study in Sweden. In 2001,Steven Levitt of the University of Chicago and John Donohue of Yale University argued,citing their research and earlier studies,that children who are unwanted or whose parents cannot support them are likelier to become criminals. This idea was further popularized by its inclusion in the book Freakonomics,which Levitt co-wrote.
Steven David Levitt is an American economist and co-author of the best-selling book Freakonomics and its sequels. 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.
Roland Gerhard Fryer Jr. is an American economist and professor at Harvard University. Following a difficult childhood,Fryer earned an athletic scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington,but once there chose to concentrate instead on academics. Graduating cum laude in 2+1⁄2 years,he went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Pennsylvania State University in 2002 and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago with Gary Becker. He joined the faculty of Harvard University and rapidly rose through the academic ranks;in 2007,at age 30,he became the second-youngest professor,and the youngest African American,ever to be awarded tenure at Harvard. He has received numerous awards,including a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 2015.
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University in Providence,Rhode Island. Its mission is to promote a just and peaceful world through research,teaching,and public engagement. The institute's research focuses on three main areas:development,security,and governance. Its faculty include anthropologists,economists,political scientists,sociologists,and historians,as well as journalists and other practitioners.
Freakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner. Published on April 12,2005,by William Morrow,the book has been described as melding pop culture with economics. By late 2009,the book had sold over 4 million copies worldwide. Based on the success of the original book,Levitt and Dubner have grown the Freakonomics brand into a multi-media franchise,with a sequel book,a feature film,a regular radio segment on National Public Radio,and a weekly blog.
Sharon Monica Oster was an American economist. She was the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor Emerita of Management and Entrepreneurship and the dean of Yale School of Management,where she was the first woman to receive tenure,and the first female dean. She was widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management.
Stephen Joseph Dubner is an American author,journalist,and podcast and radio host. He is co-author of the popular Freakonomics book series:Freakonomics,SuperFreakonomics,Think Like a Freak and When to Rob a Bank. He is the host of Freakonomics Radio.
Ray Clarence Fair is the John M. Musser Professor of Economics at Yale University.
Amy Lynn Chua,also known as "the Tiger Mom",is an American corporate lawyer,legal scholar,and writer. She is the John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law at Yale Law School with an expertise in international business transactions,law and development,ethnic conflict,and globalization. She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School for seven years. Prior to teaching,she was a corporate law associate at Cleary,Gottlieb,Steen &Hamilton.
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is an American sociologist and urban ethnographer. He is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology &African-American Studies at Columbia University,a position he has held since 1999. In his work,Venkatesh has studied gangs and underground economies,public housing,advertising and technology. As of 2018,he is the Director of Signal:The Tech &Society Lab at Columbia University.
Peter T. Leeson is an American economist and the Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Law at George Mason University. In 2012 Big Think listed him among "Eight of the World's Top Young Economists". He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
The term "missing women" indicates a shortfall in the number of women relative to the expected number of women in a region or country. It is most often measured through male-to-female sex ratios,and is theorized to be caused by sex-selective abortions,female infanticide,and inadequate healthcare and nutrition for female children. It is argued that technologies that enable prenatal sex selection,which have been commercially available since the 1970s,are a large impetus for missing female children.
Jesse M. Shapiro is an American economist who has served as the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration at Harvard University since 2022. He was previously the George S. and Nancy B. Parker Professor of Economics at Brown University from 2015 to 2019,and the Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown from 2019 to 2021. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.
SuperFreakonomics:Global Cooling,Patriotic Prostitutes,and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the second non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and The New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner,released in early October 2009 in Europe and on October 20,2009 in the United States. It is a sequel to Freakonomics:A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything.
Freakonomics Radio is an American public radio program and podcast network which discusses socioeconomic issues for a general audience. While the network,as of 2023,includes five programs,the primary podcast is also named Freakonomics and is a spin-off of the 2005 book Freakonomics. Journalist Stephen Dubner hosts the show,with economist Steven Levitt as a regular guest,both of whom co-wrote the book of the same name. The show is primarily distributed as a podcast,and is among the most popular on iTunes.
Heidi Williams is a Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and Director of Science Policy at the Institute for Progress. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College,and earned her MSc in development economics from Oxford University and her PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Prior to Dartmouth,Williams was the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Carolyn Shaw Bell was the Katharine Coman professor in economics at Wellesley College known for her mentorship of her own students' careers,as well as mentorship of female economists more broadly,through the efforts of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession,of which she was founding chair.
Nancy Qian is a Chinese American economist and currently serves as the James J. O'Connor Professor in the Kellogg School of Management Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences and a Professor by Courtesy at the Department of Economics at Northwestern University. Her research interests include development economics,political economy and economic history. She is a leading development economist and an expert of autocracies and the Chinese economy.
Lisa Blau Kahn is a professor of economics at the University of Rochester. Her research focuses on labor economics with interests in organization,education,and contract theory. From 2014 to 2018,she served as an associate professor of economics at Yale School of Management and as an assistant professor of economics at Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2014. From 2010 to 2011,Kahn served as the senior economist for labor and education policy on President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
