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The Mixtape with Scott is a podcast in which economist and professor, Scott Cunningham, interviews economists, scientists and authors about their lives and careers, as well as the some of their work. He tries to travel back in time with his guests to listen and hear their stories before then talking with them about topics they care about now.
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- Episode 16: Landing the Plane · 1 h 35 minAfter 16 episodes of working with Claude Code to study the effect of abortion clinic closures on marriage rates using a natural experiment, so to speak, in Texas called "House…
- Episode 15: Exploring Confounders That Could Impact Our Parallel Trends Assumption · 1 h 6 minCaitlin Myers and myself have been studying the effect of House Bill 2 in Texas, which closed half the state's abortion clinics, on marriage rates using "continuous…
- Episode 14: Results from continuous diff-in-diff! · 1 h 14 minThis week is a hoot! Caitlin and I finally get some estimates of the different target parameters using continuous treatment diff-in-diff! We discuss in detail how the estimator…
- Episode 13: Finally the Continuous Diff-in-Diff Estimator Shows Up! · 1 h 32 minCaitlin and I are back after a one week hiatus as we each ran around traveling in our respective parts of the world. Probably for the best, as it allowed two weeks of twoway…
- Episode 12: What's our causal effect called? · 1 h 8 minIn one sense, causal inference has two approaches. You can run a regression and then backwards engineer what it means. Think of Imbens and Angrist's 1994 classic Econometrica on…
- Episode 11: Why is our number this number? · 1 h 24 minWelcome to the 11th episode of The Mixtape with Scott, season 5, “The Odd Couple” featuring Caitlin Myers! This week we continue the riveting material from last week where we…
- Episode 10: Doses and Decompositions! · 1 h 39 minToday will astonish and amaze because in this one, you will watch me explain the decomposition of the OLS twoway fixed effects estimator for the continuous treatment…
- Episode 9: Mystery Solved! · 59 minThis week's episode of "The Odd Couple" is just Caitlin and Hannah as I had to go to Georgetown to talk about Claude Code at a faculty retreat. But before we get going with a…
- Episode 8: Poisson Regressions (Finally) · 1 h 12 minThis week, Caitlin and Scott and Claude debate what a regression is, and then run some poisson regressions of county level marriages in Texas onto travel distance to the nearest…
- Episode 7 of the Odd Couple: Human Verification, I mean, Hannah Verification! · 1 h 5 minAs I’ve said on here, and others have said repeatedly, the bottleneck in research is probably less so production as it is verification now that researchers have access to AI…
- Episode 6 of the Odd Couple: How Will We Draw Our Diff-in-Diff? · 1 h 11 minIn this episode of the Mixtape with Scott, and season 5's "The Odd Couple", featuring Caitlin Myers and myself (Scott Cunningham), we work with Claude Code to make beautiful…
- Episode 5 of the Odd Couple: Making Maps with Claude Code! · 52 minMe and Caitlin Myers are back with our trusted robot command line interface secret agent with a license to kill, Claude Code! This week we continue our live research project…
- The Odd Couple Episode 4: Introducing Hannah · 33 minIf the concept of a podcast where two economists use Claude Code to do research together sounds absurd, well, you would not be wrong. But that has not stopped Caitlin Myers and I…
- The Odd Couple Season 5 Episode 3: What's up with this data? · 1 h 13 minThis podcast is part of my long running podcast called “The Mixtape with Scott”, which had historically been an oral history of economics through in-depth interviews with living…
- The Odd Couple Season 5, Episode 2: Setting it up and getting the data · 57 minIn this week's episode of the Mixtape with Scott season 5, "The Odd Couple" Scott Cunningham (Professor of Economics at Baylor) and Catilin Myers (Professor of Economics at…
- The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers) Season 5: Episode 1 of The Odd Couple! · 53 minThe Odd Couple The Mixtape with Scott is back. Season 5. Season 5 of the Mixtape with Scott is going to be different, and fun, and different, and creative! It’ll be called The…
- [Rerun] Ariel Pakes, Professor and Economist, Harvard University · 1 h 5 minWelcome back to The Mixtape with Scott. I’m currently in the process of putting together a new slate of interviews, and while it’s not quite ready yet, I didn’t want to leave you…
- [Rerun] Amy Finkelstein, Health Economist and John Bates Clark Award Winner, MIT · 1 h 10 minGreetings from Cambridge! I’m still mid-move and not fully settled—classes kick off next week and I’m wrapping the last bits of admin—so I’m sharing one more rerun before we…
- [Rerun] Steve Berry, IO and Structural Econometrics, Yale University · 1 h 10 minGreetings everyone. I’m still in moving mode, packing up life in Texas and getting ready for a year in Boston. I hit the road on Friday of this week for a three day road trip and…
- [Rerun] Rocío Titiunik, Political Scientist and Quantitative Methodologist, Princeton · 1 h 29 minI’m still going through some older reruns for the summer due to my travel schedule. This one is an interview with Rocío Titiunik, a quantitative methods political scientist and…
