Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.

The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.

Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how.

People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don't, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity's steady payout provides a little extra incentive to keep chugging along.

Levitt admits to having the reading interests of a tweener girl, the Twilight series and Harry Potter in particular.

In the United States especially, politics and economics don’t mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

Don't trust, just verify.