Damn... I should have started this thread a few weeks ago so that we could all try to use our new Steven Levitt connection to network our way into the schools of our choice (or at least those schools he could help with).
Regarding crslr's post, I think Levitt has published more than that ranking makes it appear, probably in part due to the "top 30" journals it includes. There are rankings from RePec (
http://ideas.repec.org/top/top.person.all.html) that make Levitt look more prolific (probably due to his publishing in Poli Sci journals, and maybe some law journals). He ranks 86 overall and 162 for number of pages published (but I think this is based on entire career - at least the part available at RePec - so many ahead of Levitt have a few decades of publishing that he has to catch up to).
But it's also interesting to see that Daron Acemoglu ranks 11 for number of pages published, and he's been out of grad school for roughly the same time as Levitt. Not that our two most recent Bates Clark Medal winners are comparable in many ways.
