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The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun] Ariel Pakes, Professor and Economist, Harvard UniversityWelcome 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 hanging. So in the meantime, I’m re-sharing some conversations from earlier seasons — episodes that I think are worth revisiting or perhaps discovering for the first time.Today’s rerun is from Season Two, and it’s one of my favorite interviews from that time: my conversation with Ariel Pakes, the Thomas Professor of Economics at Harvard University.This was such a fun...
2025-09-161h 05
The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun] Steve Berry, IO and Structural Econometrics, Yale UniversityGreetings 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 am still behind on everything. That means the podcast is still on reruns for now, but I should have a new episode for you next time. This week’s rerun is one I really liked, though—my conversation from two years ago with Steven Berry.Steven is the Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale and the inaugural Faculty Director of the To...
2025-08-121h 10
The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun] Rocío Titiunik, Political Scientist and Quantitative Methodologist, PrincetonI’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 professor in the department of politics at Princeton University, as well as a researcher that has been at the frontier of work on regression discontinuity designs. Her name is synonymous with cutting-edge work on regression discontinuity design, developed in close collaboration with scholars like Sebastián Calonico, Matías Cattaneo, and Max Farrell. Together, they’ve shaped the modern landscape of causal inference, not only th...
2025-07-291h 29
The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun] Tymon Słoczyński, Econometrician, Brandeis UniversityGreetings from San Sebastián Spain where I am on holiday with my daughter for another couple of weeks. I have still not done any new podcasts as I realized only after I left that I did not pack my microphone. And, I didn’t want to buy a new one, and I wasn’t really 100% positive if using my Apple AirPods would work well. All of that is to say — excuses.So, this week we are going back down memory lane to an interview I did 1-2 years ago with one of my favorite young up and com...
2025-07-151h 22
The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun] Jon Roth, Econometrician, Brown UniversityWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott — an interview-based podcast where I, Scott Cunningham, talk to living economists about their personal lives. I continue my travels in Europe without a good microphone, which has caused me to delay my newest interviews a little bit longer. Therefore this week’s episode is an oldie but a goodie — Jon Roth, a young econometrician at Brown University. Jon has had many high profile publications to his name already in a short period of time, many of which center around difference-in-differences. Several have focused on the event study (e.g., here, here and here) , wherea...
2025-07-011h 08
The Mixtape with Scott[Rerun]: Mohammad Akbarpour, Microeconomic Theory, StanfordThis week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott is a rerun of an earlier interview I did with Muhammad Akbarpour, an economic theorist at Stanford University. Muhammad tells his life story of growing up in Tehan, Iran and his long and windy road into economics and Stanford University, where he both went to grad school and is now an assistant professor. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to it or watch it, I highly recommend it again. Mohammad is one of my favorite young economists, particularly theorists, working today and I find talking to him to b...
2025-06-171h 27
The Mixtape with ScottS4E24: Amitava Krishna Dutt, Development Economist, Notre DameWelcome back to The Mixtape with Scott, a podcast about the lives and stories of living economists. This show often unfolds in themed mini-series, and lately I’ve been exploring one that I’ve been curious about for a while: the economists who navigated and participated in the heterodox tradition in economics. Today’s guest is Amitava Krishna Dutt, a development economist, now emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His work sits at the intersection of structuralist macroeconomics, post-Keynesian theory, and development, with deep engagement in political economy. He’s long been committed to questions of global i...
2025-06-031h 29
The Mixtape with ScottS4E23: Vítor Possebom, Econometrcian, Sao Paulo School of Economics (EESP)Welcome to this week’s episode of The Mixtape with Scott. Today’s podcast guest is our 127th guest on the show—Vitor Possebom, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Fundação Getulio Vargas. Vitor’s research sits at the intersection of two areas — econometrics and causal inference, and policy evaluation in Latin America, particularly Brazil. His contributions revolve around refining and extending tools for estimating causal effects in observational data, especially under common data imperfections like selection bias, measurement error, and treatment effect heterogeneity.* Sample selection and marginal treatment effects (e.g., “Identif...
2025-05-201h 30
The Mixtape with ScottS4E22: Jessica Brown, Labor Economist, University of South CarolinaWelcome to The Mixtape with Scott, a podcast dedicated to exploring the personal stories of living economists. I'm your host, Scott Cunningham, Professor of Economics at Baylor University.Today, I'm delighted to introduce Jessica Brown, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Jessica is also a Research Fellow at IZA and a Faculty Affiliate at the Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities.I invited Jessica onto the podcast because of her deep connections to the credibility revolution, causal inference, and the esteemed tradition of labor economics...
2025-05-061h 18
The Mixtape with ScottS4E21: Michael Anderson, Public and Labor Economist, UC BerkeleyWelcome to this week's episode of The Mixed Tape with Scott. I'm your host, Scott Cunningham. This podcast is devoted to the personal stories of living economists, diving into their lives, careers, and the fascinating paths they've walked.This week's guest is Michael Anderson, an economist from the University of California Berkeley's Department of Agricultural Resource Economics. Michael earned his PhD at MIT in 2006 under the mentorship of Josh Angrist, making him part of a broader narrative I've been exploring—the Princeton Industrial Relations Section and the influential lineage of scholars who shaped the modern credibility revolution in...
2025-04-221h 35
The Mixtape with ScottS4E20: Philip Oreopoulos, Labor Economist, University of TorontoI’m thrilled to announce that our next guest on The Mixtape with Scott is Professor Philip Oreopoulos—one of the most impactful economists working today in education and labor. A PhD student advisee of David Card, Phil is part of the distinguished lineage that helped shape the credibility revolution in applied microeconomics.Now a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Toronto, Phil has spent his career studying how education policies and interventions affect outcomes for students and workers. His work blends rigorous causal inference with real-world relevance to uncover how both the very...
2025-04-081h 16
The Mixtape with ScottS4E18: Liyang Sun, Econometrics, University of College LondonI'm excited to announce the newest episode to the podcast features a brilliant mind in econometrics and applied microeconomics: Dr. Liyang "Sophie" Sun from University College London. While Liyang has technically been a guest before, our previous conversation had been narrowly focused on econometric techniques. This time, we're shifting gears to align with the core purpose of the podcast—exploring the personal stories and journeys of living economists.Many of you know Liyang by reputation or have cited her groundbreaking work. Her 2021 paper with Sarah Abraham in the Journal of Econometrics on difference-in-differences estimated using two-way fixed ef...
2025-03-251h 07
The Warrior Alliance SpotlightSpotlight: Scott Cunningham of the Atlanta BravesJoin hosts Scott Munn and Tug Cowart as they spotlight Scott Cunningham, VP of Broadcasting and Fan Experience for the Atlanta Braves. Discover how Cunningham's military upbringing shaped his career, the evolution of fan experience in sports, and the impactful initiatives supporting veterans through the Warrior Alliance. Tune in for inspiring stories and valuable insights on transitioning from military to civilian life. Key Takeaways: · Scott Cunningham's military upbringing and career journey. · Evolution of fan experience in sports. · Braves' initiatives supporting veterans and military. · Challenges and support for trans...
2025-03-2423 min
The Mixtape with ScottS4E17: Nathan Nunn, Economic History and Development, University of British ColumbiaWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! This week’s guest is Nathan Nunn, professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia. Nathan is a development economist and economic historian whose work on the development of the African continent has been viewed as pioneering, seminal even. Two of his major works focused on the African slave trade and its impact on trust (here in this AER) and the continent’s longterm development (here). The body of work is so massive that I can only point you to his webpage and vita. He’s currently an editor at Qua...
2025-03-111h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS4E16: Jérémy L'Hour, Econometrics and Machine Learning, Capital Fund Management and CRESTWelcome welcome one and all! This is the newest episode of the The Mixtape with Scott where we talk to living economists, ask them what they wanted to be when they were little, learn what and how they did become, are becoming, what they became as an adult, and this week too, the road less traveled. This week’s guest is named Jérémy L’Hour. I first learned about Jeremy because of a JASA on synthetic control he wrote with Alberto Abadie a few years ago entitled “A Penalized Synthetic Control Estimator for Disaggregated Data”. I then lea...
2025-02-251h 14
The Mixtape with ScottS4E15: Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Econometrics and Machine Learning, CEMFIWelcome to episode 15 of season 4’s The Mixtape with Scott! I am of, you guessed it, Scott. And this is my podcast which is a podcast where I interview economists and ask them about their personal story. If you were dying to know the games that economists played when they were kids, or what books they read in high school, then man are you ever in luck because that’s literally what we talk about on here!This week’s guest is Dmitry Arkhangelsky, an associate professor at CEMFI in Madrid, Spain. Dmitry is known to many people...
2025-02-111h 19
The Mixtape with ScottS4E12: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Labor, Northwestern UniversityThis week, I’m thrilled to have Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach as my guest. Diane is the Margaret Walker Alexander Professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University and a leading voice in the economics of poverty, education, and public policy. Her research focuses on how major programs like SNAP, Medicaid, and early childhood education impact children’s long-term outcomes. Diane has published in top-tier journals, testified before Congress, and served in key leadership roles, including as director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings and as director of Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research.Diane...
2025-01-281h 18
The Mixtape with ScottS4E11: Marie Connolly, Labor Economist, Université du Québec à MontréalWelcome to this weeks episode of the Mixtape with Scott! This is a podcast about the personal stories of living economists and an oral history of the last 50 years, give or take. And today’s guest is part of a larger series about the students of the key founders of the credibility revolution. Today’s guest was Alan Krueger’s student at Princeton and her name is Marie Connolly, a labor economist and professor at Université du Québec à Montréal.Marie Connolly earned her Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University in 2007, where she worked under the mentor...
2025-01-141h 18
The Mixtape with ScottS4E10: Ted Joyce, Health Economist, CUNYWelcome to the last podcast interview of 2024! This is the fourth season, 10th episode, which I guess puts us between 110-120 interviews so far. This week’s interview with an economist, learning more about their personal story, is Ted Joyce. Ted is a Professor of Economics at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Health Economics program. He’s renowned for his contributions to demography and reproductive health policy and his work has appeared in top journals such as the Journa...
2024-12-311h 14
The Mixtape with ScottS4E8: Jann Spiess, Machine Learning and Causal Inference, StanfordWelcome to the latest episode of The Mixtape with Scott! This week’s guest on the podcast is Jann Spiess. Many of you probably know Jann from his work with Kirill Borusyak and Xavier Jaravel on diff-in-diff. Others may know him for his work on machine learning. Now you get to know him for a third reason which is contained on this podcast! Jann is an assistant professor at Stanford. He’s one of a younger cohort of talented econometricians who have been making practically helpful contributions to the toolkit in causal inference and machine learning, including work...
2024-12-031h 57
The Mixtape with ScottS4E7: Elizabeth Cascio, Labor Economist, DartmouthWelcome back to The Mixtape with Scott, the podcast where we explore the personal stories behind the professional lives of economists. I’m your host, Scott Cunningham, coming to you from Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Each week, we dive into the journeys, insights, and lives of economists whose work shapes how we understand the world.This week’s guest is Elizabeth Cascio. Elizabeth studies education, public policy, and the well-being of children. Her research often looks at big policy changes in 20th-century America, like the spread of publicly funded early education and major civil rights, education, and...
2024-11-191h 19
The Mixtape with ScottS4E6: Timothy Bartik, Labor Economics, Upjohn InstituteWelcome to the latest episode of the Mixtape with Scott. This week my guest is Tim Bartik from the Upjohn Institute. Let me briefly share some things about Tim. Many of you may know Tim from the shift-share instrument which oftentimes is referred to as Bartik instruments. That’s what I refer to it in a section of my book, for instance. It has been more carefully studied by econometricians over the last few years, such as Borusyak, Hull and Jaravel who have studied it from the shock side, and Goldsmith-Pinkham, Sorkin and Swift from the share side. ...
2024-11-051h 38
The Mixtape with ScottS4E5: Miikka Rokkanen, Consumer Behavior Analytics, AmazonGreetings everyone! The leaves on the tree are turning orange as we inch our way towards Halloween and some of us in some unbearably hot portions of the world get to finally see how the good half live and have a whisper of pleasant weather even if it will only be here for a second or two. This week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is Miikka Rokkanen. Miikka is in Consumer Behavior Analytics at Amazon and is part of two of my larger series. First, he is part of my stories about the PhD economists wh...
2024-10-221h 20
The Mixtape with ScottS4E4: Maya Rossin-Slater, Health Economist, StanfordWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott! It’s a pleasure to introduce this week’s guest from Stanford University, Maya Rossin-Slater. Maya is a health economist who specializes in areas related to families in particular. Early work of hers focused on public policies aimed at labor markets as an avenue for helping families, notably paid leave. Her work has been unique for focusing on all parts of the family — mothers, fathers, as well as children. Her more recent work has moved into distressful events that affect all people in the family, and which most recently...
2024-10-081h 20
The Mixtape with ScottS4E3: Mohammad Akbarpour, Microeconomic Theory, StanfordWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! Sometimes the shortest distance between point A and point B is a straight line, but other times the shortest distance is a winding path. This week’s guest, Mohammad Akbarpour from Stanford University, is perhaps an example of the latter. Mohammad is a micro theorist at Stanford who specializes in networks, mechanism and design and two sided matching. Mohammad is an emerging young theorist at Stanford, student of such luminaries as Matt Jackson and Al Roth, whose background in engineering, mathematics and computer science has given him a fresh approach to topics that I...
2024-09-241h 27
The Mixtape with ScottS4E2: N. Greg Mankiw, Macroeconomics, HarvardGreetings! Today’s guest on the Mixtape needs no introduction, but I guess I will anyway. N. Greg Mankiw is a household name to many of us in economics. Either you are a macroeconomist, and his work in new Keynesian economics was something that you had come to know extremely well, or you are literally every other economist, and his principles of economics textbooks you know backwards and forwards because it was either the book you studied as a sophomore in college, or probably even more common, it was the book you used to learn how to teach economics. Th...
2024-09-101h 12
The Mixtape with ScottS4E1: Janet Currie, Health and Children, PrincetonWelcome the Mixtape with Scott! This is a podcast with a simple objective: listen to the personal stories of living economists who are the primary guests I have on the show. The secondary goal is to follow a thread of people around topics I care about and allow a patchwork story of the profession to form based on, from and through those personal narratives. This is the 105th episode of the podcast, and the first episode of season four. Wow! Time flies. Today’s guest is name known to most — Dr. Janet Currie. Dr Currie attended Princeton for...
2024-08-271h 35
The Mixtape with ScottS3E26: Javier Gardeazabal, Political Economy and Econometrics, University of the Basque CountryWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott, a podcast devoted to listening to the personal stories of living economists and creating an oral history of the profession. This episode is partly inspired by my visit to San Sebastián, Spain, with my daughter right now and partly inspired by a 2003 article co-authored with Alberto Abadie studying the effect of terrorism on economic growth that introduced the synthetic control estimator. My guest is Javier Gardeazabal, a professor at the University of the Basque Country. Javier Gardeazabal is a professor at the University of the Bas...
2024-07-231h 29
The Mixtape with ScottS3E25: Avinash K. Dixit, Microeconomics, Princeton UniversityWelcome to this week’s episode of “The Mixtape with Scott”! My podcast tries to capture the personal stories of living economists and create an oral history of the profession from the narratives. And this week, I’m thrilled to welcome Dr. Avinash K. Dixit, a distinguished economist whose life’s work has influenced many fields within economics. But let me start by telling you a little about his background.Dr. Dixit is the John J. F. Sherrerd ’52 University Professor of Economics Emeritus at Princeton University. He also serves as a Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Economics at Lingnan Univ...
2024-07-161h 05
The Mixtape with ScottS3E24: David Autor, Labor Economist, MITWelcome to this week’s episode of "The Mixtape with Scott”! This podcast is dedicated to capturing the personal stories of living economists and creating an oral history of the profession through these narratives. This week, I’m excited to welcome David Autor, an esteemed labor economist from MIT, where he serves as the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, as well as the Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow. He was also last year's VP of the AEA, is on the Foreign Affairs board of the US State Department, and is a Digital Fellow at Stanford Digital Economy Lab. The number of acc...
2024-07-091h 00
The Mixtape with ScottS3E23: Adriana Lleras-Muney, Labor Economist, UCLAWelcome to another exciting episode of the Mixtape with Scott! Today, I get to have on the show someone who has become something of a friend the last few years, an expert in health economics and social policy, Adriana Lleras-Muney at UCLA, a Professor of Economics at UCLA.Dr. Lleras-Muney's journey in economics is super impressive and even involves traveling through all the alleyways of causal inference. After earning her Ph.D. from Columbia University where she wrote a job market paper on compulsory schooling, at a time where it had just become accepted wisdom that the...
2024-07-021h 29
The Mixtape with Scott(Repeat): S2:E1 Interview with Jeff Wooldridge, Economist and EconometricianMy producer is on vacation this week, and so I am unable to post my latest episode, so I thought I’d post an oldie but a goodie — my season 2 opening interview with Jeff Wooldridge, a much beloved econometrician and economist at Michigan State. So enjoy! Apologies and I’ll see you all next week with a new guest! Thanks again for all your support. Ciao!Scott's Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full a...
2024-06-181h 09
The Mixtape with ScottS3E21: Ashesh Rambachan, Predictive Algorithms and Causal Inference, MITGreetings listeners! It is a pleasure to introduce this week’s guest on the podcast, Ashesh Rambachan, an assistant professor of economics at MIT. I wanted to talk to Ashesh for two main reasons. First, because I wanted to, and second, because I was aware of some of his recent work in econometrics. His recent article on evaluating the fragility of parallel trends in difference-in-differences just came out in the Review of Economic Studies. I’m also intrigued by his work with Sendhil Mullainathan on machine learning, algorithmic fairness as well as generative AI. Having a specialist in both caus...
2024-06-111h 16
The Mixtape with ScottS3E20: Henry Farber, Labor Economist, PrincetonThis week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is esteemed labor economist, Henry Farber, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. Dr. Farber’s accolades are numerous: a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society of Labor Economists, and the Labor and Employment Relations Association, past President of the Society of Labor Economists, and recipient of the 2018 Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Labor Economics. You can find more information about his background here in this short biography.But ironically, it was for a different reason that I wanted to r...
2024-06-041h 18
The Mixtape with ScottS3E19: Sarah Miller, Health Economist, MichiganThis week's episode of "The Mixtape with Scott" features a conversation with Sarah Miller, a health economist at the University of Michigan. Sarah has made significant contributions to the field of economics, particularly in understanding gender dynamics and reproductive health. Her research has been influential in shaping public policy, and her groundbreaking study on the effect of Medicaid on mortality, conducted with Laura Wherry and Norman Johnson and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, stands out as a seminal work. In this episode, we delve into her academic journey, the personal experiences that have shaped her interests, and...
2024-05-281h 10
The Mixtape with ScottS3E18: E. Glen Weyl, Economist and Author, MicrosoftThis week's episode of "The Mixtape with Scott" features an insightful conversation with E. Glen Weyl, a distinguished economist whose career has spanned academia and industry. Glen earned his PhD from Princeton, spent three years at the Harvard Society of Fellows, and served as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, where he made significant contributions to micro theory applications to industrial organization. However, Glen’s journey took a transformative turn when he left academia to join Microsoft, where he currently leads the Plural Technology Collaboratory, focusing on technological solutions for societal cooperation.Many listeners might re...
2024-05-211h 17
The Mixtape with ScottS3E16: Bruce Sacerdote, Labor Economist, DartmouthWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott where I get to interview Bruce Sacerdote, the Richard S. Braddock 1963 Professor in Economics at Dartmouth. Bruce is a prolific labor economist whose work spans the range of crime, education and peer effects. Some of his papers have been some of my favorite, even. His early work on crime with Ed Glaeser used to really interest me. But it was his work on peer effects that I found really fascinating. This old paper in the QJE about how friendships form I must have read almost 20 years and it st...
2024-05-071h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS3E15: Peter Boettke, Austrian Economics, George Mason UniversityThis week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is someone I’ve admired for a very long time, even before I entered graduate school in 2002. Peter J. Boettke is the Distinguished University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, the Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. It’s hard to summarize just how important Peter has been to the story of Austrian economics, but in my mind, he’s been one of the most inf...
2024-04-301h 41
The Mixtape with ScottS3E14: Jesse Rothstein, Labor Economist, UC BerkeleyThis week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is Jesse Rothstein, the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy at UC-Berkeley and the Faculty Director of the California Policy Lab. Jesse has a long list of things to which he’s made meaningful contributions, ranging from labor economics, to discrimination, to education, to causal inference and more. He’s also one of the “students of David Card” guests that I wanted to have on the podcast, as Card was his adviser way back in the day. For those curious about the paper we are talking about towards the end (“augm...
2024-04-231h 13
The Mixtape with ScottS3E13: Martin Gaynor, Health Economist, Carnegie Mellon/DOJWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! We are getting closer to the hundredth episode! This is our 91st interview if I include Adam Smith (played by ChatGPT-4), which I absolutely will be counting. And the guest is someone I have admired for a long time — Martin Gaynor, or “Marty”. Marty is the J. Barone University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon both in the economics department and their policy school, Heinz College. But he is also special adviser to Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division at the federal Department of Justice, and it is not...
2024-04-161h 37
The Mixtape with ScottS3E12: Daniel Chen, Political Economy, ToulouseWelcome to the 12th episode of the third season of the Mixtape with Scott, a podcast devoted to listening to the stories of living economists. This week's guest is Daniel Chen, an economist at the Toulouse School of Economics. I had a chance to meet Daniel when he came to Baylor and presented to use a tour de force of his body of scholarship, and I was mesmerized by it. Except for one other person, I had not met someone with that level of productive scholarly energy before. I was really stunned by how much work he had crammed...
2024-04-091h 14
The Mixtape with ScottS3E10: Richard Blundell, Labor Economist, University of College LondonThis week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is famed labor economist, Richard Blundell, the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the University of College at London. Dr. Blundell’s accolades are extensive: a Fellow of the Econometric Association, Fell of the American Academy of Arts and Science, former President of SOLE, of the Royal economic Society, recipient of the 2000 Frisch Prize, the 2020 Jacob Mincer Prize in Labor Economics, and on and on. You can find more information about his background here at this short biography. But ironically, it was for a different reas...
2024-03-261h 04
The Mixtape with Scott[Reposting S1E14]: Interview with Petra Todd, Econometrician, University of PennsylvaniaWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! Due to a technical difficulty with my producer’s computer, this week’s interview was not ready in time. So we are going to do another repeat from season one. This is with Petra Todd, a labor economist, econometrician and author of a new book on causal inference entitled, Impact Evaluation in International Development with Paul Glewwe. She was also elected to the Academy of Arts and Sciences last 2023. And she is Jim Heckman’s former student and coauthor, which fits with my slowly building deck of interviews on “Heckman’s students” (along with John Ca...
2024-03-1959 min
The Mixtape with Scott[Reposting] S1E27: Interview with Kyle Kretschman, head of economics at SpotifyI’m still recovering from my travels over spring break, so I decided to repost an old interview I did in August 2022. This was my 27th podcast interview at the time and part of my “Economists in Tech” series, which has died down somewhat. The guest was Kyle Kretschman whose title at Spotify reads “Head of Economics”. This was a popular interview when it first came out, and I thought for newer listeners, they might like to listen to it again. Kyle came to Spotify after spending around 6-7 years at Amazon first. He graduated from the University of Texas at A...
2024-03-121h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS3E9: Pierre Chiappori, Micro Theorist, Columbia UniversityThis week’s guest on the Mixtape is Pierre Chiappori, a micro theorist at Columbia University. While Pierre is not technically a student of Gary Becker’s, there are many people who counted Becker as a colleague that probably at times did consider them also Becker’s student, and I suspect Pierre is one such person. I learned of Dr. Chiappori in graduate school while studying economics of the family. His collective models of the household always seemed a little bit outside of what I was studying, which was typically the Nash bargaining models of marriage, but I was also v...
2024-03-051h 04
The Mixtape with ScottS3E8: Marianne Bitler, Public Economist, UC DavisWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott. One of the new themes I’m hoping to pursue is the students of the 2021 winners of the Nobel Prize. And today’s interview is with Marianne Bitler, professor of economics at University of California Davis. Dr. Bitler was in the first cohort of Josh Angrist’s PhD advisees at MIT. She graduated in 1998 from MIT where Angrist was one of her advisors before going into a career in government. She took the long way to get into academia, moving through UC Irvine and landing at UC Davis. Her care...
2024-02-2756 min
The Mixtape with ScottS3E7: Wilbert van der Klaauw, Research Economist, NY Federal ReserveWelcome to season three of the Mixtape with Scott — a podcast devoted to listening to the stories of living economists and creating an oral history of the last 50 years of the profession. This week’s interview is with Wilbert van der Klaauw, economic research advisor in the Household and Public Policy Research Division and the director of the Center for Microeconomic Data with the New York Fed. Wilbert has an interesting story for many reasons. He fits with my longstanding interest in causal inference for his early work on regression discontinuity design, both alone and with Hahn and Todd in t...
2024-02-2054 min
The Mixtape with ScottS3E6: Bruce Hansen, Econometrician, Univ of WisconsinWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! A podcast devoted to the personal stories of living economists and relaying an oral history of the profession (or at least a selected oral history of a selected part of the profession). Still working on an easy to say phrase that combines those two ideas of the micro and the macro. Anyway, today is part of the longer series on econometricians, and I am pleased to have on the show Bruce Hansen, the Mary Claire Aschenbrener Phipps Distinguished Chair and the Trygve Haavelmo Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin. Bruce has...
2024-02-131h 09
The Mixtape with ScottS3E5: Chris Taber, Labor Economist, WisconsinThis week’s guest on the Mixtape with Scott is Christopher Taber. Chris is a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin where he is department chair, the James Heckman professor of economics and the Walker Family chair. Chris is a labor economist and econometrician who has made numerous contributions to both areas such as the returns to education, difference-in-differences with small numbers of interventions, techniques for evaluating claims of selection on observables and more. In addition to fitting into my long running interest in econometrics and labor economics, though, I wanted to talk with Chris because this ye...
2024-02-061h 05
The Mixtape with ScottS3E4: Andrew Baker, Professor, UC Berkeley LawWelcome to another episode of the Mixtape with Scott! This week I have a guest who some of you know, and some of you don’t know (I suppose making them no different than anyone else) — Andrew Baker. Andrew is now an assistant professor in the law school at the University of California Berkeley. He specializes in topics at the intersection of law, policy and finance. And one of his papers, “How Much Should We Trust Staggered Difference-In-Differences Estimates?”, published in the Journal of Financial Economics, was the winner of the Jensen Prize for the best paper published in Corporat...
2024-01-301h 17
The Mixtape with ScottS3E3: Carlos Cinelli, Statistician, University of WashingtonPhilosophy of the PodcastWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott, a podcast devoted to hearing the stories of living economists and a non-randomly selected oral history of the economics profession of the last 50 years. Before I introduce this week’s guest, I wanted to start off with a quote from a book I’m reading that explains the philosophy of the podcast. “For the large m majority of people, hearing others’ stories enables them to see their own experiences in a new, truthful light. They realize — usually instantaneously — that a story another has told is their own st...
2024-01-231h 04
The Mixtape with ScottS3E2: Caitlin Myers, Labor Economist, Middlebury CollegeThe Mixtape with Scott is a weekly podcast devoted to building out a selected part of the collective story of the last 50 years of the economics profession by listening to the personal stories of living economists. And this week's guest is a the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College in Vermont, Caitlin Myers who I am fortunate to count as both a coauthor and friend, as well as an professional admirer. Caitlin is a graduate of the University of Texas's economics department and is one of those young economists who hit the ground running and has...
2024-01-161h 38
The Mixtape with ScottS3E1: Richard Freeman, Labor Economist, HarvardWelcome to season 3 of The Mixtape with Scott! A podcast about the personal stories of economists and the collective story of economics of the last 50 years. We are kicking off season 3 with a bang: an interview with the distinguished labor economist, Richard Freeman, from Harvard University. Dr. Freeman holds is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and serves as the Co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. As you’ll learn, his educational journey started with a B.A. from Dartmouth in 1964 and went into a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard Un...
2024-01-091h 22
The Mixtape with ScottS2E44: Cristine Pinto, Econometrician, Inspir in BrazilAnd with that, season 2 of the Mixtape with Scott is complete! What a journey! Our final guest this year is an econometrician named Christine Pinto. Christine is an econometrician at INSPER Institute of Education and Research in São Paolo Brazil. And I know of Christine because of her work on synthetic control making her fit with my larger interest in causal inference. But ironically, Christine also was briefly a Guido Imbens student at Berkeley before he left, which makes her also part of the story of how causal inference spread through labor markets and not merely textbooks. It w...
2023-12-261h 14
The Mixtape with ScottS2E43: Interview with Marianne Wanamaker, Economic Historian and Dean, University of Tennessee KnoxvilleWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! This week is a blast. I’m talking this week Dr. Marianne Wanamaker, professor of economics at the University of Tennessee Knoxville and the new dean at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. Marianne has had a spectacular run since graduating from Northwestern in 2009: NBER, IZA, a stint in the White House (former chief domestic economist at Council of Economic Advisors and senior labor economist), a ton of other stuff. She’s an economic historian by training, a specialist in American economic history specifically and demography, and won the 2019 Kenneth J. A...
2023-12-1955 min
The Mixtape with ScottS2E42: Interview with Jinyong Hahn, Econometrician, UCLAWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape, I’m Scott Cunningham, the host. We are in the final stretch! Season two is almost over. When it’s all said and done, there’ll be 45 episodes in season two, and 34 from season which is [does math on a piece paper, scratches it out, starts over, then announces] 79 episodes. Man, what a fun this has been. Today’s interview is with Dr. Jinyong Hahn, the chair of the economics department at University of California Los Angeles and a prominent econometrical. I knew of Dr. Hahn mainly from his 2001 p...
2023-12-121h 01
The Mixtape with ScottS2E41: Tymon Słocyński, Econometrician, Brandeis UniversityWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott! I’m the host - Scott Cunningham. As some of you have probably seen, I’ve been studying a paper on OLS entitled “Interpreting OLS Estimands When Treatment Effects Are Heterogeneous: Smaller Groups Get Larger Weights” by Tymon Słocyński at Brandeis University. It’s been an interesting paper because of what it taught me about a model I thought was done teaching me. Well this week I am interviewing Tymon, who is a young econometrician who does really interesting work. Tymon is an assistant professor at B...
2023-12-051h 22
The Mixtape with Scott[RERUN PODCAST]: Interview with Guido Imbens, Econometrician, 2021 Winner of the Nobel PrizeWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! I’m the host, Scott Cunningham. This week I decided to do a rerun from season one to give people a little time to catch their breath as I know at one interviewee a week can be like drinking from a firehose. This is an interview I did with Guido Imbens, the co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics. I am hard pressed to say I have a favorite interview, as I have loved all of them, but I have a deep love and appreciation for Guido and thought if I was to gi...
2023-11-2856 min
The Mixtape with ScottS2E40: Avi Goldfarb, Economist, University of TorontoWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott! This week we have an outstanding guest named Avi Goldfarb of the University of Toronto. Avi is a PhD economist who graduated from Northwestern in the early 2000s specializing in the economics of the internet. He is now at the University of Toronto where he is a professor in the marketing department as well as chief data scientist with a very interesting lab called the Creative Destruction lab that among other things specializes in the economics of artificial intelligence. He is the author of two very popular and pr...
2023-11-211h 26
The Mixtape with ScottS2E39: Adam Smith, Economist, Glasgow UniversityThis week on the Mixtape with Scott, I have a very special guest. Adam Smith, the so-called founder of economics, and author of two best selling books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments published in 1759 and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (buy it now for $2800 here at eBay!) published in 1776. I know what you’re thinking. “But Scott, that would make Adam Smith very old, even probably dead, wouldn’t it?” And you’re right on both counts! Adam Smith was a moral philosopher born in 1723 in Scotland so it literally makes him...
2023-11-141h 02
The Mixtape with ScottS2E38: Andreu Mas-Colell, Micro Theorist, Professor at Pompeu Fabra UniversityWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott episode 38 of season 2! By my calculations, there have been 72 total episodes in the Mixtape with Scott podcast — 34 episodes in season 1, 38 this year. What better way to celebrate episode 72 (38) than with Dr. Andreu Mas-Colell from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain! If you’re an economist, then you know Dr. Mas-Colell if for no other reason than that his book with Greene and Whinston taught you microeconomics in grad school. If you’re looking for a replacement copy of the textbook to put on your shelf, click here. I wanted to interview Dr. Ma...
2023-11-071h 57
The Mixtape with ScottS2E37: Casey Mulligan, Professor of Economics, University of ChicagoWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott! Recently, the University of Chicago Press published a book entitled The Economic Approach: Unpublished Writings of Gary S. Becker. It was written obviously by Gary Becker who died almost 10 years ago at the age of 83 after an extremely long and fruitful career as an economist. Dr. Becker had many students — some like me were students from afar, but some, like our guest today, were his actual students. And today’s guest is Casey Mulligan, one of the editors of that aforementioned book, and a professor of economics at the Un...
2023-10-311h 14
The Mixtape with ScottS2E36: Sascha Becker, Economic Historian, Monash UniversityThis week’s guest on The Mixtape with Scott is the Xiaokai Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Sascha Becker. Sascha is an economist who is hard to pin down into just one field. He’s probably most widely known, across the most general set of economists, as a contemporary economic historian. One of his specializations within economic history has been religion, most notably the Protestantism in Europe and its relationship to long term literacy (particularly among women) and human capital more generally. But even within history, he writes on topics that go far beyond traditional econ...
2023-10-241h 17
The Mixtape with ScottS2E35: Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Senior Economist, Federal ReserveWelcome to the Mixtape with Scott! This week's episode has a guest that some of you have come to know and appreciate, and some of you hopefully will after this episode — Andrew Goodman-Bacon (“Bacon”). In addition to having a great nickname, he also has a great job, a great personality and several great papers, one of which after only two years since publication has won an award at the Journal of Econometrics, and already has over 4,000 cites. I really wish I knew how to pull things from google scholar and I could see what other papers in the history of eco...
2023-10-171h 30
The Mixtape with ScottS2E34: Melanie Guldi, Health Economist, Professor, University of Central FloridaWelcome to another episode of the Mixtape with Scott podcast! This week is a special one for the economics community as we celebrate Claudia Goldin's well-deserved Nobel Prize win for her pioneering work on women in the labor market. It's serendipitous, then, that today's guest is Melanie Guldi, associate professor of economics at University of Central Florida, who has spent over 15 years since graduating in 2006 from the University of California — Davis doctoral program in economics carving out a unique path in related terrain focused on the economics of fertility. Melanie’s 2008 job market paper and subsequent publication in Demography exam...
2023-10-101h 39
The Mixtape with ScottS2E33: Jonah Gelbach, Law Professor and Economist, BerkeleyWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott. I guess I could say “And I am your host Scott Cunningham” but after over 50 of these, I guess you already know I’m the host. When I first became interested in economics, it was through an old working paper series called the John M. Olin working paper series, which was then affiliated with the University of Chicago’s law school. That was where I found Becker’s Nobel Prize speech which caused an immediate 180 on my career and led me into economics myself. But the thing that really stood...
2023-10-031h 16
The Mixtape with ScottS2E32: Amy Finkelstein, John Bates Clark Award Winner, Health Economist, MITWelcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott! I’m your host - Scott Cunningham, a professor at Baylor in their economics department. This week's guest is with none other than Amy Finkelstein, the John Bates Clark award and MacArthur Genius grant winner, and professor of economics at MIT. This was a fun interview — super generous, giving guest who shared a lot of her life, how she grew up in New York and then through her own windy road found her way to economics. She has a new book out “We’ve Got You Covered: Rebooting American H...
2023-09-261h 10
The Mixtape with ScottS2E31: Nick Cox, Geographer, Stata Part 2Welcome to the Mixtape with Scott podcast! That feels strange typing since by now, I shouldn’t have to write it that way, but you never know — maybe someone is coming today for the first time and will be coming upon the second part of a two part interview with Nick Cox, a geographer at Durham in the UK, and longtime contributor to public and club goods around Stata, the software used by many economists at least. This is as I said Part 2 in a two part interview. The point of interviewing Nick as I said last time is that...
2023-09-191h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS2E30: Dr. John Cawley, Health Economist, Becker's Student, Cornell ProfessorApologies I double posted a podcast this morning. I will finish the Nick Cox interview next week. Welcome to this week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott — where we listen to the personal stories of economists and hope that what bubbles up in the long run is a curated collective story of the economics profession of the last 50 years. This week’s interview guest is part of my “Becker’s Students” series which highlights the students of the late economist, Gary Becker, a legendary giant of microeconomics from both Columbia University as well as the University of Chicago...
2023-09-121h 20
The Mixtape with ScottS2E29: Dr. Nick Cox, Durham, Geographer, Stata (Part 1)This week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott is with a professor at Durham in England in the geography department, Dr. Nick Cox. Many economists will only know of Nick because of his presence on the Stata listserv where he was one of its most prolific contributors and moderators. As economics as a field gradually shifted from theory to empirical work, at least as a share of the total papers written and total people employed, people like Nick and others became more relevant people in our lives as empiricists. We would go to the Stata listserv with questions, an...
2023-09-0557 min
The Mixtape with ScottS2E28: Interview with William Greene, Professor Emeritus, Author and Econometrician, New York UniversityGood morning! Welcome to another episode of the Mixtape with Scott! This week is a lot of fun. I got to interview none other than William Greene, Professor Emeritus at NYU and author of 8 editions of a great textbook on Econometrics, as well as a software developer from an econometrics software called LimDep. What a fun trip through the past — through growing up in Long Island, his family moving to Ohio when a recession cost his dad his job, and moving into grad school where Bill began to realize his skills in computing and econometrics were complements. It was a...
2023-08-291h 01
The Mixtape with ScottS2E26: Interview with Gábor Békés, International Economist and Author at CEUThis week of the Mixtape with Scott, I have the pleasure of introducing you to Gábor Békés, an associate professor at Central European University in Austria and author of an exciting new textbook in data science and causal inference entitled Data Analysis for Business, Economics and Policy (Cambridge Press 2021). I wanted to talk to Gábor for many reasons — one because I am interested in talking with people whose roles in the scientific production function is to create platforms of knowledge sharing. These include editors of journals, department chairs, organizers of conferences, and authors of tex...
2023-08-081h 19
The Mixtape with ScottE2S23: Interview with Miles Kimball, Professor and EconomistThis week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott is with a man I have gotten to become friends somewhat unexpectedly: Miles Kimball (Wikipedia). Miles is currently the Eugene D. Eaton Jr. professor in the economics department University of Colorado Boulder. And we got to know each other through a mutual friend, and discovered that we had many of the same somewhat eccentric interests around mental health, self improvement and a desire to serve the profession in our own personal ways. This is a long interview, but I found it fascinating. I wanted to talk to Miles ab...
2023-07-112h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS2E22: Interview with Dr. William Spriggs, Professor of Economics at Howard University, Chief Economist for the AFL-CIOThis week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott is from 2019. It is an interview with the late Dr. William Spriggs, an economist who died in June 2023. He was a longtime professor of economics at Howard University and Chief Economist for the AFL-CIO. It was from an old series I wanted to do called “What Economists Do” — the premise being more or less what evolved into my current podcast: tell the stories of living economists and in aggregate hope that the collective story of economics is told. And Dr. Spriggs was the first I reached out to. This was filmed a...
2023-07-041h 55
The Mixtape with ScottS2E20: Interview with Marina Della Giusta, Labor Economist and ProfessorMarina Della Guista is a pioneer in the economics of Sex Work who started her career at the University of Reading and is now a professor at the University of Turin. And when I first started studying sex work, I went looking for what papers economists had written. There weren’t many, but the ones that had been written were fascinating. Many, though not all, were applied theory papers. I remember with great fondness studying new models gaining rich insight into how other economists thought this niche subject in labor economics. One of the studies th...
2023-06-201h 02
The Mixtape with ScottS2E19: George Selgin, Economic Historian and Monetary EconomistThis week’s episode of The Mixtape with Scott is an interview with an old professor of mine from when I was at the University of Georgia, Dr. George Selgin. George was one of several really interesting professors I was fortunate enough to get to know while a PhD student there. One anecdote of the impression he made on me was that he was a handful of people who ever read my dissertation. He gave back to me a massive marked up document full of suggestions and a lot of red underlines — not just to the job market paper, but...
2023-06-1358 min
The Mixtape with ScottS2E18: Interview with Steve Pischke, Labor Economist and Professor at LSEOn this week's episode of my podcast, The Mixtape with Scott, I got to meet and talk with the labor economist, Steve Pischke, a distinguished professor at the London School of Economics. Many listeners will automatically recognize that name for his joint venture with Josh Angrist in creating what is probably, without a doubt, the textbook of my generation in causal inference and applied micro econometrics — Mostly Harmless Econometrics. Like Angrist, Pischke earned his PhD in economics from Princeton, contributing significantly to my ongoing exploration of the Industrial Relations Section, one of a handful of ground zeroes for the “cred...
2023-06-061h 09
The Mixtape with ScottS2E17: Interview with Elizabeth Stuart, Biostatistician and Professor at Johns Hopkins UniversityA person I had always wanted to get to know Dr. Elizabeth Stuart, a professor at Johns Hopkins in their biostatistics department. I knew about her for a long time before I met her because of her expansive work on a variety of issues in the area of “matching” and unconfoundedness. She did her PhD, as it turned out, at Harvard at the end of the 1990s and early 2000s around the time when Guido Imbens was still there in the economics department, and Don Rubin in the statistics department. At Harvard she worked with people like Don Rubin, her...
2023-05-301h 02
The Mixtape with ScottS2E16: Interview with Jason Furman, Economist and Professor, Harvard UniversityInterview with Jason FurmanIt has been a common story throughout the last two seasons that while not every economist entered economics with a burning desire to affect public policy, a large number had. But of those that had said that usually had in mind scholarship as the primary mechanism by which policy was affected. In this week’s episode, I am joined by an economist who has spent his career very close to the machinations of economic policy itself — Dr. Jason Furman. Jason, currently a professor in Harvard's Kennedy School, took the road less traveled from bein...
2023-05-231h 04
The Mixtape with ScottS2E15: Interview with Derek Neal, Labor Economist and ProfessorDerek Neal interviewIt’s Tuesday which is usually the day of the week I release a new episode for season two of the Mixtape with Scott. These interviews consist of me interviewing an economist, though sometimes I deviate and interview other social scientists or authors. The idea of the podcast is a little out there: “to be an oral history of the economics profession, focusing selectively on topics from the last 50 years, by listening to the personal stories of the economists themselves”Topics include things like causal inference and econometrics, Princeton Industrial Relati...
2023-05-161h 01
The Mixtape with ScottS2E14: Interview with Rocío Titiunik, Political Scientist and Quantitative MethodologistIn this week’s interview on The Mixtape with Scott, I had the opportunity to meet with the James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science at Princeton University, Dr. Rocío Titiunik. Within the world of applied econometric methodology, Dr. Titiunik is well known for her theoretical work on regression discontinuity design. Her work with coauthors like Sebastian Calonico, Matias Cattaneo, and Max Farrell has shaped the landscape of applied econometrics through their innovative work in econometrics as well as their construction of numerous software packages in R, Stata and now python of practical utility. But she is a dua...
2023-05-091h 29
The Mixtape with ScottS2E13: Interview with Mike Jay, Historian of Medicine and AuthorIn this week's episode of the Mixtape with Scott, I’m taking a break from interviewing economists to post a podcast interview with a non-economist, the historian Mike Jay. Mike Jay is a historian of medicine and I interviewed him last year as part of a now somewhat defunct project on the emerging medical reforms in the US and around the world related to "psychedelic medications". I felt that as these were happening fast, it would be good for those health economists and policy advocates to learn more about it, and sometimes that means talking to the non-scientists who ha...
2023-05-011h 10
The Mixtape with ScottS2E11: Interview with Steve Berry, Economics Professor at Yale, Specialist in Structural EconometricsHello Substack readers,I'm excited to share with you the insights from my latest podcast episode, where I had the incredible opportunity to interview Yale professor and renowned economist Steven Berry. In this week's edition, we will:* Introduce you to our esteemed guest, Steven Berry* Delve into the groundbreaking BLP model* Recap the fascinating conversation we hadMeet Steven BerrySteven Berry is the David Swensen Professor of Economics at Yale University, winner of the 1996 Frisch Medal, and a leading figure in the fields of econometrics and...
2023-04-181h 10
The Mixtape with ScottS2E10: Interview with Jon Roth, Economics Professor at Brown, EconometricianDear Mixtape with Scott listeners,We are pleased to announce the release of our latest podcast episode, featuring an insightful conversation with Jon Roth, an exceptionally talented young econometrician from Brown University. With only three years since graduating, Jon has already made significant contributions to the field of econometrics, publishing high-profile papers on difference-in-differences in esteemed outlets such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, and AER: Insights. Moreover, he has authored a timely literature review on differential timing and has an R&R at JPE: Micro on staggered rollout. In short, he has hit the ground running...
2023-04-111h 08
The Mixtape with ScottS2E9: Interview with Joseph Doyle, Economist, MIT ProfessorThis week’s episode is an interview with Joseph Doyle. Joe is the Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management who has had a distinguished career as a labor economist studying a range of topics that most outside of economics do not always associate with the field — like child welfare and foster care, juvenile incarceration and its effect on high school completion and adult incarceration, and more. The welfare of children, as it turns out, has been a longstanding research focus of Dr. Doyle’s, and because I’ve written on foster...
2023-04-041h 11
The Mixtape with ScottS2E8: Interview with Paul Oyer, Labor Economist, Stanford and AuthorIn this week’s podcast episode, The Mixtape with Scott, I am interviewing Paul Oyer. Paul Oyer is a labor economist at Stanford University and author of several books, including "Everything I Needed to Know about Economics I learned from Online Dating", which is one of my favorite "popular general interest books explaining what economics is", as well as "An Economist Goes to the Game" which is about sports and economics. Links below for both. He's a fun, funny and interesting guy whose work in labor economics and personnel economics follows many of my own interests -- how firms hi...
2023-03-2859 min
The Mixtape with ScottS2E6: Interview with Pedro Sant’Anna, Professor, Economist and EconometricianWhat a pleasure it is this week to introduce my guest on the Mixtape with Scott, Dr. Pedro Sant’Anna. Had you asked me a few years ago the likelihood I’d make such a good new friend this late in life, I would not have guessed it, but from countless conversations on social media, and even more in DM on our Slack channel with two other close friends, Pedro Sant’Anna has become one of my favorite people in life. A constantly upbeat, friendly, energetic man, patient to a fault to explain every single detail of econometrics, and enjoyi...
2023-03-141h 07
The Mixtape with ScottS2E5: Interview with Hide Ichimura, Professor of Economics and EconometricianThis week’s episode of the Mixtape with Scott is a little out of order. Season two’s episodes are going to be a little out of order, based on what feels like the best next episode to present at that time. So I decided after doing my interview with University of Arizona professor of economics, Hide Ichimura, that I wanted to release it because I had such a delightful time talking with him. Dr. Ichimura is an econometrician whose work I’ve gotten to know more recently because it’s been experiencing a little bit of a revival (though i...
2023-03-071h 10
The Mixtape with ScottS2E4: Interview with Clair Brown, Author of Buddhist Economics and Labor EconomistIn this week’s interview on the Mixtape with Scott, I had the pleasure of interviewing Clair Brown, a labor economist at the University of California - Berkeley. Dr. Brown’s career has spanned several topics like discrimination, industrial economics, and climate. Dr. Brown’s late career has made several turns into environmental economics, particularly climate, but also a re-envisioning of the field of economics with her book Buddhist Economics. Dr. Brown’s work has always focused on issues around welfare that are often massaged out of her models, like meaning, community and fairness in labor markets. I thoroughly enjoyed...
2023-02-281h 03
The Mixtape with ScottS2E2: Interview with Dan Hamermesh, Professor Emeritus, Labor EconomistIn this week’s episode of The Mixtape with Scott, I introduce you to the one and only, Dan Hamermesh. Dan is professor emeritus now at the University of Texas where he spent the last part of his career. He’s part of the story of Princeton that I’ve been interested in telling, as he was there from 1969 to 1973 before heading to Michigan State where he was until 1993. He then went down the street from me to Austin at University of Texas until 2014. Dan did his undergraduate in economics from the University of Chicago where he got to...
2023-02-141h 06
The Mixtape with ScottS2:E1 Interview with Jeff Wooldridge, Economist and EconometricianSeason two of the Mixtape with Scott is up and boy do I have a dynamite first guest. None other than the man himself, Dr. Jeffrey Wooldridge! Jeff, as I say in the opening, is the author of two phenomenally popular books (here, here and here’s the solutions) in econometrics that has raised an entire generation of economists. We have a great conversation about his life and career and I hope you enjoy it!Expect new episodes every Tuesday morning. Thanks to my good friend, Wes Cunningham (no relation), for the amazing opener music he made fo...
2023-02-071h 09
The Mixtape with ScottS1E28: Interview with Leah Boustan, Professor at Princeton, Economic HistorianWho is Leah Boustan?Leah Boustan is a professor of economics at Princeton University and this week’s guest on The Mixtape with Scott. Her research has to date largely focused on two of the largest demographic events in US history: the Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to industrial cities in the North and West in the mid-twentieth century, and a period of mass migration from Europe to the US from 1850-1920. She is author of two books related to both topics: Competition in the Promised Land (Princeton University Press, 2017) and Streets of Gold: Amer...
2022-09-071h 09
The Mixtape with ScottS1E24: Interview with Ronny Kohavi, Computer ScientistRonny Kohavi, PhD“Economists in tech” is a podcast series of mine trying to tell the story of the movement predominantly Economics PhD talent into and throughout the emerging tech sector. Previously interviews have been with Michael Schwarz (Microsoft), Susan Athey (Stanford, now DOJ, formerly Microsoft), and John List (Chicago, Wal-mart). But this week I chose to share an interview I did a month ago with a prominent computer scientist named Ronny Kohavi. Economists may not know about Ronny. Ronny did his PhD at Stanford in 1995, and was at ground zero to watch major advances happ...
2022-08-1057 min
mission + likenessWhat is Apologia Church REALLY like? // The Church and Roe v Wade - What now?Over summer break Scott vacationed in Gilbert, Arizona so naturally he had to visit ApologiaChurch. What are their church services really like? Scott explains and then has a conversation with Cindy and Stephanie from Crossroads Pregnancy Center to talk about how the church will need to step up and face new challenges from the Roe v Wade decision.
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2022-08-0448 min
The Mixtape with ScottInterview with Gary King, Professor of Political Science at Harvard, about Science and InferenceIn this week’s podcast, I had a great time talking with Gary King, the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard, the Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and founder of several firms specializing in data analytics and education. As a scientist, he has made major contributions to the fields of statistics and political science, but more than that, he is also just one of the most creative, curious and passionate thinkers I’ve had the chance to meet. There is too much to summarize so let me just say I think, like I found him...
2022-06-0556 min
mission + likenessFighting Criticism with Curiosity with Jeff McCullough [Hello Saints]Jeff McCullough joins Scott in this episode to talk about how we can learn and grow in our own faith by fighting criticism with curiosity. Jeff shares his YouTube Channel, Hello Saints, with Scott and tells the story why he is taking his journey to better understand the LDS (Mormon) faith as he compares and contrasts lifestyle, culture and beliefs through an on-going dialogue with Latter Day Saints.
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2022-05-2650 min
The Mixtape with ScottInterview with Orley Ashenfelter, Legendary Labor Economist, the GOATOrley Ashenfelter is a legend in labor economics. He is arguably the founder of the "design-based causal inference" tradition that because associated with the Princeton University Industrial Relations area as well as the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics to two of his students, Josh Angrist and David Card, and the modern inventor of the difference-in-differences design. In this interview, Scott Cunningham talks to Orley about his career as a labor economist, his influences, Princeton and other neat things.
2022-03-181h 01
The Mixtape with ScottInterview with John List, Chief Economist at Wal-martScott Cunningham, professor of economics at Baylor University and author of Causal Inference: the Mixtape, interviews John List, professor of economics at University of Chicago, chief economist at Walmart (formerly Lyft and Uber Chief Economist), and author of THE VOLTAGE EFFECT about his life and career as an economist inside and outside academia, as well as the distinction between scientific work focused on narrow empirical questions and the science of scaling programs into their maximum effectiveness. . Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe
2022-03-181h 01
mission + likenessGods Story and Plan for HumansHow can Christians be on mission if we don't know what the mission is? In order for followers of Jesus to know our mission, we first must know and understand God's plan. God's plan is also known as the gospel.
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2022-03-0548 min
That's the World We're Living InEp. 16 | T2W2LI | Guys, Drake's Scent and Limp Bizkit w/ Scott and DylanThat's the World We're Living In
Episode 16: Five Guys, Drake's Scent and Limp Bizkit
Guests Scott Cunningham and Dylan Fitzpatrick join host Rory Cunningham to talk;FIve Guys Burgers & Fries, Snowblowers, old computer operating systems, dial up internet, Tom Clancy weed stash, Metal Gear Solid movie, HBO Max release schedule, Keanu Reeves, John Wick, The Matrix, Space Jam 2, 90-Day Fiance, Boba Fett in the Mandalorian, Star Wars TV better than the movies, COVID habits, Drake scented candles, tender moments with Fred Durst, Limp Bizkit, rap rock, horror movies, Rockstar Games, Grand Theft Auto, snowstorms, and more.
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