University of Chicago economics professor Steven Levitt has also warned about excessive fear mongering about gun ownership.

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But Steven Levitt, president of the opinion tracking firm Marketing Evaluations Inc.

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In the book Freakonomics, by University of Chicago economist, Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist, Stephen J.

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The wage structure within the factions appears to be surprisingly flat, far more so than in the American gang analysed in 2000 by two academics, Steven Levitt and Sudhir Venkatesh.

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And yet, top bloggers include academics and commentators whose work would qualify them as public intellectuals by any traditional measure for example, Tyler Cowen, Daniel Drezner, James Fallows, Steven Levitt, Lawrence Lessig and Andrew Sullivan.

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There is a controversial theory put forward by economist Steven Levitt that the increased availability of legal abortion after the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 on Roe v Wade meant that fewer children were born to young, poor, single mothers.

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Drawing heavily on the latest research in neuroscience, Pirozzolo is working with Steven Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and the co-author of "Freakonomics, " on a golf research project to determine which transfer techniques work and which don't.

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