Freakonomics Rev Ed
50 percent more likely than average to live in poverty; he would have also been 60 percent more likely to grow up with just one parent.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
At the same time, politicians were growing increasingly softer on crime—“for fear of sounding racist,” as the economist Gary Becker has written, “since African-Americans and Hispanics commit a disproportionate share of felonies.”
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
People who can’t be bothered to come up with a name for their child aren’t likely to be the best parents either.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
fear is a potent short-term play.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Colorado Adoption Project,
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parents use a name to signal their own expectations of how successful their children will be.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
The typical white child in the ECLS study attends a school that is only 6 percent black;
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Baby Mozart
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas.