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The Mixtape with Scott

The Mixtape with Scott

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 The Mixtape with Scott is a podcast in which economist and professor, Scott Cunningham, interviews economists, scientists and authors about their lives and careers, as well as the some of their work. He tries to travel back in time with his guests to listen and hear their stories before then talking with them about topics they care about now.

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  • The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers) Season 5: Episode 1 of The Odd Couple!

    The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers) Season 5: Episode 1 of The Odd Couple!
    2026/03/10
    The Odd CoupleThe Mixtape with Scott is back. Season 5. Season 5 of the Mixtape with Scott is going to be different, and fun, and different, and creative! It’ll be called The Odd Couple. And it’ll be called “The Mixtape with Scott (Featuring Caitlin Myers)”. It’ll have different naming conventions until Caitlin pick one we like! Let me tell you all about it.I started the podcast around four years ago as a way of creating an oral history of economics while also tracing out the history of the credibility revolution through Orley Ashenfelter, his students, and the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton. I tacked on a bunch of other things too along the way like “the students of Gary Becker” and “economist in the tech industry”, as well as any number of eddies I wanted to swim in along the way. And after 130 interviews, I more or less felt like I had tapped my creativity out. I largely came to understand the evolution of causal inference a particular way, which I wrote up across several substacks, as well as added throughout my new book, Causal Inference: the Remix (proofs came to me today in fact). It was very rewarding. Maybe one day I’ll write up the interviews as a book (even Claude Code cannot yet do that), but for now, I’m just ready to move on, as 130 interviews is a lot.But move on to what? Well, that’s what I want to tell you about now. Today’s episode is the first episode in a season I’m calling “The Odd Couple” featuring the brilliant economist, Caitlin Myers. And the concept is simple:Caitlin Myers and me will start a research project together which is only performed on the podcast. And we will use Claude Code to do this project on the air. While doing it, we will talk and laugh and share our thoughts about what we are doing. Think of Bob Ross talking while he paints trees. Only instead of trees, it’s estimated dosage parameters of abortion clinic closures’ effect on marriage using continuous diff-in-diff. And instead of a brush, we are using Claude Code who is using R, python and Stata. But other than those trivial details, it is exactly like Bob Ross, or maybe the View. The Odd Couple featuring Caitlin Myers, Scott Cunningham and Claude CodeCaitlin Myers is the John G. McCullough Professor of Economics at Middlebury College in beautiful Vermont. And she is, at the time of this writing, arguably one of the leading economists working on reproductive policy in the United States, maybe the world. She’s been published a lot on the topic for a very long time, including this article in the Journal of Political Economy, our JHR on abortion clinic closures, and numerous others. You can find it all at her slick website. She’s also been a contributor to the public good by creating public data repositories. She built this dashboard. She knows where every clinic opened and closed and when, going back decades. She’s meticulously described each and every relevant law regulating abortion access. If you’ve read a paper in the last ten years about abortion services, there’s a good chance a design by Caitlin, or data she helped curate and distribute, was somehow connected to it. Her influence in this space has been massive.But in addition to being great, she’s also funny, thoughtful, and thinks really well on her feet. Which is one of the reasons I thought it would be great to have her as my research partner and conversation partner on the podcast. Because I think if this concept is going to work, a lot of planets have to align, and I had been thinking for a very long time that if there was such a square peg to fit a square hole, it would be her.I would say that Caitlin and I are right at that sweet spot of professional acquaintances bordering on friends. That’s the type of person who you make a point to find when you are at a conference and get a drink with even if you aren’t at that moment writing a paper together. It’s that person who you shared a little about your private life with when you were on a car ride together to the airport. It’s that person who you text memes of Beyonce giving out high fives for no good reason. It’s that person you want to send a note to in class saying “Will you be my friend? Circle yes or no”. No one does this on the airSo the idea of this podcast is that she and I are going to extend an old study of ours with Jason Lindo and Andrea Schlosser published in the Journal of Human Resources called “How Far Is Too Far?” It studied what happened when Texas passed HB2 in 2013 and nearly half the state’s abortion clinics closed overnight. We used the sudden, geographically uneven changes in driving distance to the nearest clinic to estimate the causal effect of access on abortion rates. The punchline was that distance matters, the effects are non-linear, and congestion at the surviving clinics matters too.But what we want to do is extend the research design in a couple of ways. First, we want to study the effect that...
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  • [Rerun] Ariel Pakes, Professor and Economist, Harvard University

    [Rerun] Ariel Pakes, Professor and Economist, Harvard University
    2025/09/16

    Welcome 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 and rich interview. People either know Dr. Pakes very well or only by the letter “P”. He’s a towering figure in industrial organization and structural econometrics, with landmark contributions both theoretical and applied. Among many things, he’s the “P” in the Berry-Levinsohn-Pakes model — BLP — which remains one of the most influential tools for estimating demand in differentiated product markets. That paper — Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium — published in Econometrica in 1995, has had a ripple effect not just in economics, but well beyond it.

    But this interview wasn’t just about methods and models. Dr. Pakes and I talked about basketball, about growing up in a radical socialist youth group, about his early love of philosophy, and his own path through Harvard as a young man trying to straddle economics and philosophy before finding his place. He spoke softly, with depth and reflection, and he offered a glimpse into how he works — by getting himself in way over his head and then slowly, patiently, working his way out. It’s a way of thinking that hasn’t just shaped his own work but has helped shape the rest of ours too.

    I hope you enjoy this one as much as I did.



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  • [Rerun] Amy Finkelstein, Health Economist and John Bates Clark Award Winner, MIT

    [Rerun] Amy Finkelstein, Health Economist and John Bates Clark Award Winner, MIT
    2025/08/26

    Greetings from Cambridge! I’m still mid-move and not fully settled—classes kick off next week and I’m wrapping the last bits of admin—so I’m sharing one more rerun before we close out Season 4.

    Today’s guest is a Cambridge neighbor just down the Charles at MIT: Dr. Amy Finkelstein, John Bates Clark Award–winning economist.

    If you’re new to her work: Amy is a leading health economist at MIT and coauthor of We’ve Got You Covered (with Liran Einav), a timely book from a couple of years ago. In it, they argue for universal basic coverage that guarantees financial protection from major medical costs, while leaving room for supplemental private insurance—simple, fair, and focused on what insurance is actually for.

    In our conversation we cover the Oregon Medicaid Experiment and the ideas that shaped it, plus the arc of her career. I loved this one. Hope you enjoy the rerun.

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