Archive - Scott's Mixtape Substack

[Rerun] Jon Roth, Econometrician, Brown University

Welcome to the Mixtape with Scott — an interview-based podcast where I, Scott Cunningham, talk to living economists about their personal lives.

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1:08:06

June 2025

Some Stylized Facts About Econometrics Citations Patterns, Diff-in-Diff Citation Patterns and Software Downloads

Or, "How I couldn't go to sleep and stayed up to 2am doing fake research and rejected all my theories about something no one else but me probably cares…

Jun 27 •

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More pictures and videos from Lucca and Turin, plus thinking aloud about the second edition of the mixtape

As readers know, I am in Lucca Italy, taking a two week break between workshops.

Jun 26 •

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A wedding in Lucca, Pizzas at a party outside of town, and working

Greetings from Lucca.

Jun 24 •

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More Lucca, Plus Thoughts About My Fall Class at Harvard

I got to Lucca on Saturday, and it is now Thursday.

Jun 20 •

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[Rerun]: Mohammad Akbarpour, Microeconomic Theory, Stanford

This 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…

Jun 17 •

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1:27:58

Covariates, Repeated Cross Sections, Diff-in-Diff, and Parallel Trends Violations Plus Pictures of Lucca Italy

Getting off to a late start (again)

Jun 16 •

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Arriving at Lucca and starting two weeks of cloistered study and prep

I left Turin yesterday morning at 8am on a train to Lucca.

Jun 15 •

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Day 1 in Turin, Day t-1 before diff-in-diff workshop at Collegio Carlo Alberto

This will have pictures of Italy, as well as a description of the ongoing iterating of my diff-in-diff workshops.

Jun 8 •

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Leaving Scotland (eventually)

This substack is long overdue.

Jun 7 •

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S4E24: Amitava Krishna Dutt, Development Economist, Notre Dame

Welcome back to The Mixtape with Scott, a podcast about the lives and stories of living economists.

Jun 3 •

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1:29:00

May 2025

Continuous diff in diff

I once heard someone senior say that they’d never in their career experienced such a short window between when a new estimator appears and the…

May 31 •

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