scott cunningham
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Economics professor paying it forward with 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies, 55 Cokes, 100 tater tots, 100 pizzas, 100 tenders, 100 meatballs
Waco, Texas
Joined October 2011
Peter Hull will be doing a workshop on shift-share instrumental variables at Mixtape Sessions starting July 29th. Reach out to me if you are a resident of low income country ($1) or a student/et al ($95) to get those discount codes.
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Workshop taught by Prof. Peter Hull starting on July 29th, 2025.
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RT @ASSAMeeting: Announcing the #ASSA2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Leah Boustan of Yale University. She will be speaking on her work related….
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RT @restatjournal: When fitting synthetic controls, simultaneously balancing multiple outcomes can improve performance. Just Accepted new p….
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Abstract. When there are multiple outcome series of interest, Synthetic Control analyses typically proceed by estimating separate weights for each outcome. In this paper, we instead propose estimat...
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RT @AEAjournals: The June 2025 issue of AER: Insights (7, 2) is now available online at
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Vol. 7 No. 2 June 2025
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RT @alexolegimas: The thing I miss most about #econtwitter (which is mostly dead) is that it elevated voices that you may not otherwise hea….
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RT @restatjournal: Novel methods to quantify uncertainty for synthetic controls with multiple treated units. Just Accepted new paper by Mat….
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Abstract. We propose principled prediction intervals to quantify the uncertainty of a large class of synthetic control predictions (or estimators) in settings with staggered treatment adoption,...
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RT @instrumenthull: Regression is a tool for making comparisons. If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to….
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My daughter told me I was "weaponizing incompetence" bc I was taking too long cleaning up the rental boat. I told her if she could accuse me of that and of gaslighting her in the same sentence, I'd give her a dollar.
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RT @AEAjournals: Forthcoming in the JEL: "Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide" by Andrew Baker, Brantly Callaway, Sco….
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(Forthcoming Article) - Difference-in-differences (DiD) is arguably the most popular quasi-experimental research design. Its canonical form, with two groups and two periods, is well-understood....
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Workshop announcements. Mark Anderson and Dan Rees will be doing a workshop called "The Hidden Curriculum" starting August 6. It's "everything you wanted to know about doing applied work but were afraid to ask". Come sign up!.
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Workshop taught by Prof. Daniel Rees and Prof. D. Mark Anderson starting on August 6th, 2025.
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The old days.
Could someone just write an ado package for callaway and @pedrohcgs please? If it’s a matter of compensation, just email me and I’ll try to find some money, but if you’re skilled there’s a Stata journal pub waiting for you. The R package is did. Hard part is the inference.
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I'm not sure what I'll do this weekend. I had covered initially the role that weights play in target parameters, which was fun. I might do repeated cross sections and compositional change next, but we'll see. I like this extra video using ChatGPT mic to create the simulations.
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I try to post 2 new ones every Sunday, but last week was sick again for the fourth consecutive week so missed it, but I'll get back to it. I had gone through several times the way you derive the bias in diff-in-diff using potential outcomes and the 2x2 formula.
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I've been trying to migrate my workshop material to my substack for the last two months (and it's ongoing) onto something called Mixtape University. It's slow, but it's a perk for the paying subscribers to my substack. They're each around 15-20 minutes.
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I made some videos showing in different ways the source of the bias in diff-in-diff when using an already treated comparison group. One of the videos has me using CHatGPT to create a simulation of this in R, Stata and python with the mic only.
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Hear ye, hear ye. Two workshops are on the horizon -- one next weekend, the other in 6 weeks. The first was at your house on your computer. The other one is in Madrid, Spain. Come to both!.
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RT @BeatrizGietner: We have a new post! 🙋♀️Which was a delight to write 🥰.With papers/guides by @instrumenthull, @packlesshepherd, @xuyiqi….
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Help us all know the difference between what we can and cannot control, focus on what we can control (maybe it's larger than we think, maybe it's smaller), and then earnestly focus on those things. Wishing all of us this today.
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I wrote up that Acemoglu paper "A Simple Macroeconomic Theory of Artificial Intelligence" paper into a "simple explainer". I also put a song by Alice In Chains from Jar of Flies to brighten your day.
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