"People who buy annuities, it turns out, live……" — Steven Levitt
"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."
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27 Quotes by Steven Levitt
Steven Levitt has 27 quotes on this site.
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Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
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The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words:…
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If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times…
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Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
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No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
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I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe…
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