Beste Econometrics Podcasts (2024)

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S4E6: Timothy Bartik, Labor Economics, Upjohn Institute 1:38:01

6d ago1:38:01

1:38:01

Welcome 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 …

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S4E5: Miikka Rokkanen, Consumer Behavior Analytics, Amazon 1:20:19

20d ago1:20:19

1:20:19

Greetings 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 Rokkan…

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S4E4: Maya Rossin-Slater, Health Economist, Stanford 1:20:47

1M ago1:20:47

1:20:47

Welcome 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 …

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S4E3: Mohammad Akbarpour, Microeconomic Theory, Stanford 1:27:58

2M ago1:27:58

1:27:58

Welcome 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, mechani…

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S4E2: N. Greg Mankiw, Macroeconomics, Harvard 1:12:04

2M ago1:12:04

1:12:04

Greetings! 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 ec…

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S4E1: Janet Currie, Health and Children, Princeton 1:35:36

3M ago1:35:36

1:35:36

Welcome 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 na…

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S3E26: Javier Gardeazabal, Political Economy and Econometrics, University of the Basque Country 1:29:48

4M ago1:29:48

1:29:48

Welcome 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 st…

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S3E25: Avinash K. Dixit, Microeconomics, Princeton University 1:05:38

4M ago1:05:38

1:05:38

Welcome 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 …

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S3E24: David Autor, Labor Economist, MIT 1:00:51

4M ago1:00:51

1:00:51

Welcome 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 Rubin…

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S3E23: Adriana Lleras-Muney, Labor Economist, UCLA 1:29:19

4M ago1:29:19

1:29:19

Welcome 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 involve…

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S3E22: Manisha Shah, Development Economist, UC Berkeley (episode 100!) 1:26:15

5M ago1:26:15

1:26:15

We have officially passed 100 episodes with today’s guest, and it’s wonderful to get to do it with my good friend, Manisha Shah. Manisha is the Chancelor’s Professor of Public Policy at University of California Berkeley. Manisha is an applied microeconomist who has historically specialized in topics related to health, education, gender and labor, w…

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(Repeat): S2:E1 Interview with Jeff Wooldridge, Economist and Econometrician 1:09:38

5M ago1:09:38

1:09:38

My 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. C…

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S3E21: Ashesh Rambachan, Predictive Algorithms and Causal Inference, MIT 1:16:44

5M ago1:16:44

1:16:44

Greetings 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 …

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S3E20: Henry Farber, Labor Economist, Princeton 1:18:17

5M ago1:18:17

1:18:17

This 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…

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S3E19: Sarah Miller, Health Economist, Michigan 1:10:19

6M ago1:10:19

1:10:19

This 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 gr…

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S3E18: E. Glen Weyl, Economist and Author, Microsoft 1:17:26

6M ago1:17:26

1:17:26

This 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 sig…

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S3E17: Matthew Jackson, Economics of Networks, Stanford 1:09:23

6M ago1:09:23

1:09:23

This week on the podcast, Matthew Jackson from Stanford University is the guest and it was such a delight for me to talk to him and get to know his story a little better. I’d met him before, but only briefly, but I’d read a lot of his work because I once developed and taught a class on networks for our masters of economics students. His textbook on…

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S3E16: Bruce Sacerdote, Labor Economist, Dartmouth 1:11:05

6M ago1:11:05

1:11:05

Welcome 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…

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S3E15: Peter Boettke, Austrian Economics, George Mason University 1:41:14

7M ago1:41:14

1:41:14

This 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 t…

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S3E14: Jesse Rothstein, Labor Economist, UC Berkeley 1:13:08

7M ago1:13:08

1:13:08

This 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. H…

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S3E13: Martin Gaynor, Health Economist, Carnegie Mellon/DOJ 1:37:29

7M ago1:37:29

1:37:29

Welcome 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 Pol…

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S3E12: Daniel Chen, Political Economy, Toulouse 1:14:02

7M ago1:14:02

1:14:02

Welcome 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…

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S3E11: Peter Klein, Entrepreneurship, Baylor 1:27:49

7M ago1:27:49

1:27:49

Welcome to the Mixtape with Scott! To set up this week’s guest, let me just share real quick a personal anecdote. When I graduated college, I got a job as a qualitative research analyst doing focus groups and in-depth interviews. I had majored in literature, so this was my first exposure to anything related to the social sciences. I loved the freed…

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S3E10: Richard Blundell, Labor Economist, University of College London 1:04:02

8M ago1:04:02

1:04:02

This 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 eco…

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[Reposting S1E14]: Interview with Petra Todd, Econometrician, University of Pennsylvania 59:31

8M ago59:31

59:31

Welcome 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 Developm…

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[Reposting] S1E27: Interview with Kyle Kretschman, head of economics at Spotify 1:11:49

8M ago1:11:49

1:11:49

I’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 wh…

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S3E9: Pierre Chiappori, Micro Theorist, Columbia University 1:04:20

8M ago1:04:20

1:04:20

This 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 grad…

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S3E8: Marianne Bitler, Public Economist, UC Davis 56:36

9M ago56:36

56:36

Welcome 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 …

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S3E7: Wilbert van der Klaauw, Research Economist, NY Federal Reserve 54:37

9M ago54:37

54:37

Welcome 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 Cente…

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S3E6: Bruce Hansen, Econometrician, Univ of Wisconsin 1:09:13

9M ago1:09:13

1:09:13

Welcome 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 lon…

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S3E5: Chris Taber, Labor Economist, Wisconsin 1:05:04

9M ago1:05:04

1:05:04

This 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 …

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S3E4: Andrew Baker, Professor, UC Berkeley Law 1:17:57

10M ago1:17:57

1:17:57

Welcome 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, po…

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S3E3: Carlos Cinelli, Statistician, University of Washington 1:04:13

10M ago1:04:13

1:04:13

Philosophy of the Podcast Welcome 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 pod…

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S3E2: Caitlin Myers, Labor Economist, Middlebury College 1:38:19

10M ago1:38:19

1:38:19

The 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 fortu…

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S3E1: Richard Freeman, Labor Economist, Harvard 1:22:59

10M ago1:22:59

1:22:59

Welcome 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 …

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S2E44: Cristine Pinto, Econometrician, Inspir in Brazil 1:14:33

11M ago1:14:33

1:14:33

And 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…

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S2E43: Interview with Marianne Wanamaker, Economic Historian and Dean, University of Tennessee Knoxville 55:07

11M ago55:07

55:07

Welcome 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 Ho…

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S2E42: Interview with Jinyong Hahn, Econometrician, UCLA 1:01:08

11M ago1:01:08

1:01:08

Welcome 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.…

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S2E41: Tymon Słocyński, Econometrician, Brandeis University 1:22:51

11M ago1:22:51

1:22:51

Welcome 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 be…

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[RERUN PODCAST]: Interview with Guido Imbens, Econometrician, 2021 Winner of the Nobel Prize 56:38

12M ago56:38

56:38

Welcome 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 ha…

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S2E40: Avi Goldfarb, Economist, University of Toronto 1:26:27

12M ago1:26:27

1:26:27

Welcome 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 dep…

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S2E39: Adam Smith, Economist, Glasgow University 1:02:13

12M ago1:02:13

1:02:13

This 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 thinkin…

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S2E38: Andreu Mas-Colell, Micro Theorist, Professor at Pompeu Fabra University 1:57:56

1y ago1:57:56

1:57:56

Welcome 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 kno…

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S2E37: Casey Mulligan, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago 1:14:12

1y ago1:14:12

1:14:12

Welcome 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…

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S2E36: Sascha Becker, Economic Historian, Monash University 1:17:33

1y ago1:17:33

1:17:33

This 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 e…

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S2E35: Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve 1:30:17

1y ago1:30:17

1:30:17

Welcome 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 sin…

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S2E34: Melanie Guldi, Health Economist, Professor, University of Central Florida 1:39:39

1y ago1:39:39

1:39:39

Welcome 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 Cen…

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S2E33: Jonah Gelbach, Law Professor and Economist, Berkeley 1:16:47

1y ago1:16:47

1:16:47

Welcome 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 th…

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S2E32: Amy Finkelstein, John Bates Clark Award Winner, Health Economist, MIT 1:10:09

1y ago1:10:09

1:10:09

Welcome 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…

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S2E31: Nick Cox, Geographer, Stata Part 2 1:11:05

1y ago1:11:05

1:11:05

Welcome 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 g…

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