Sitemap - 2025 - Scott's Mixtape Substack

Two imminent workshops starting with shift-share IV by Peter Hull (Brown)

Noise versus signal in LLM assessment of quality

[Rerun] Tymon Słoczyński, Econometrician, Brandeis University

Heading to Madrid, leaving Seville

Continuous diff in diff, regressions and the 2x2

On Leaving Switzerland; Getting Robbed on a Train; Getting to Nerja, Spain

[Rerun] Jon Roth, Econometrician, Brown University

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

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

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

More Lucca, Plus Thoughts About My Fall Class at Harvard

[Rerun]: Mohammad Akbarpour, Microeconomic Theory, Stanford

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

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

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

Leaving Scotland (eventually)

S4E24: Amitava Krishna Dutt, Development Economist, Notre Dame

Continuous diff in diff

Wrapping up CodeChella second edition

Packing up and last things

Random thoughts

S4E23: Vítor Possebom, Econometrcian, Sao Paulo School of Economics (EESP)

Saturday links

End of semester causal inference assignment

Assessing the economics of AI class

Eat, Pray, Run

S4E22: Jessica Brown, Labor Economist, University of South Carolina

Kindness, repeated use, and longrun distortionary effects from ChatGPT

Saturday links (closing tabs)

Final AI Assignment for "Economics of AI" Class

Personal Updates

S4E21: Michael Anderson, Public and Labor Economist, UC Berkeley

The Soul in the Machine: Exploring the New AI–Human Relationships

Closing tabs

Day One: My Body Asked Me To Run Again So I'm Training Now For an Ultramarathon

Quick Correction: Synthetic Control Workshop is April 26–27

Two Upcoming Causal Inference Workshops (Corrected Dates Included)

A Simple Explainer of Acemoglu’s Simple Macroeconomics of AI

Inside the "Brain" of Claude

Science as Society and Dealing with Empirical Crises in Social Science

Personal updates (no Saturday links due to headaches)

S4E20: Philip Oreopoulos, Labor Economist, University of Toronto

Mixtape University: Diff-in-diff with a checklist. Why Can't I Use an Already Treated Group as a Control?

Closing tabs

How a Nobel physicist saw productivity—and why it matters for us now

Synthetic controls and CodeChella: Coming soon workshops

The Simple Power of The 2x2: Personal Reflection on Difference-in-Differences

Mixtape University series: Diff-in-diff with a checklist. Understanding the No Anticipation Violation

Closing tabs:

Teaching David Autor at Economics of AI This Week

What I Learned at the OpenAI Economics Event

Long Differences, Short Gaps, and the Principle of Falsification in Event Studies

S4E18: Liyang Sun, Econometrics, University of College London

Walking Through Practitioners Guide (Baker, et al. 2025)

Mixtape University: Diff-in-Diff with a checklist. Simulating the Importance of Weighting

Closing tabs: Cold Harbor Edition

Personal thoughts about how I'm feeling about going to Harvard

Economics of AI Assignment: Interview Roleplay, Deep Research, Roleplay again

Three announcements: a new diff in diff practitioners guide, a new Workshop Begins March 22, and Harvard University

Mixtape Mailbag: Covariates, Regression, and Homogeneity

Mixtape University: Diff-in-diff with a checklist. Defining your target parameters

Closing tabs: Goodbye South Africa

The Wages of Nations: How AI Changes What It Means to Learn, Earn, and Grow

S4E17: Nathan Nunn, Economic History and Development, University of British Columbia

Mixtape University series: Diff-in-diff with a checklist. Where does Parallel Trends come from?

Closing tabs: South Africa edition

Causal 2 workshop announcement

My Day in San Francisco at OpenAI Economics Event

Designing your diff in diff with a checklist, step 2: counting the treated counties

Mixtape Mailbag: Staggered Adoption and Combining Synthetic Controls

Introducing Mixtape University: The Diff-in-Diff Checklist (and Why I’m Doing It)

Closing tabs: sleep deprived edition

Looks Can Be Deceiving: Why Visual Pre-trend Checks Aren’t Enough in Difference-in-Differences

Many Analyst Designs, Data Preparation and the Sources of Non Standard Errors

Economics of Generative AI on Workers and Work (plus some diff in diff stuff)

S4E16: Jérémy L'Hour, Econometrics and Machine Learning, Capital Fund Management and CREST

Mixtape Mailbag: Why is My Simple ATT Significant, but Not My Event Study?

My Field Guide for Deeply Feeling

Cleaning out my browser tabs: Eminem edition

The Hidden Curriculum Workshop: February 28 and March 1

Step 1: More about weighting heterogenous treatment effects

Does Being Nice to AI Make It Smarter? Experimental Evidence

Step 1: More on How Aggregation Can Change Your Targeted Causal Effects: A Lesson from Counties, States, and Individuals

Machine Learning Causal Forests Workshop Announcement!

Saturday closing out my open browser tabs: Valentines edition

Fourth Week of the Economics of AI Done: Some Reflection

Step 1: Looking Backwards through IV, TWFE and OLS vs Looking Forward Towards the Target Parameter

Firing Someone, Without Blame or Pleasing: An Adlerian Approach

S4E15: Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Econometrics and Machine Learning, CEMFI

A Primer on Acemoglu, AI and Automation

Weekend at Dad's

Saturday tabs: Super Bowl edition

Reflecting on Week 3 of my Economics of AI class

How I use AI to care for myself

T-minus 5 days, 15 days and 23 days to February workshops

Becker vs Adler Part 3

Step 1: Defining the Target Parameter When All You have is Aggregate Data

Saturday tabs: Texas brisket edition

Week 2 of my economics of AI class: discussing the news and the dangers of LLM for learning

Peter Hull Teaches Instrumental Variables

Personal: Adler vs Becker Part 2

S4E12: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Labor, Northwestern University

Personal: Adler vs. Becker

Closing tabs: missed opportunities

Week 1 of my new Economics of AI class

CodeChella Madrid 2024: Reflections and Insights

Designing your Diff-in-Diff: Still Talking About Target Parameters

Wishing us all a successful semester with classes drenched in AI

Closing tabs: Penultimate Week Before Spring Semester Edition

Designing Diff-in-Diff: Continuing Target Parameter Discussion plus Workshop Announcements

My Spring 2025 Economics of AI Syllabus (or the substack summary anyway)

S4E11: Marie Connolly, Labor Economist, Université du Québec à Montréal

Designing difference in differences: lessons from concealed carry laws in crime

Closing my tabs: the Lonesome Traveler edition

Diff-in-Diff Design Stage: New Series

Coming 2025

Closing my tabs: Dharma Bums edition