scott cunningham

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1	Jun 30, '19	What is the best TV series you’ve ever seen? And you can’t list Mad Men, Seinfeld, The Wire, Breaking Bad, GoT, sopranos, or The Office.	123×	0	3.9k	535	507
2	May 14, '21	What perks did you enjoy as a kid bc of your parents jobs? My parents ran a computing company and they had a huge computer with a very primitive couple of games I’d play. They also	79.1×	0	4.8k	171	355
3	Aug 10, '22	I follow this couple on TikTok and saw them on Cameo so I asked them to help me manage my students' expectations for my new prep on history of economic thought. Best $11 ever spent	36.9×	0	10k	638	1.1k
4	Mar 25, '23	Congrats to Luca Braghieri, Ro'ee Levy and Alexey Makarin for their 2022 AER examining the effect of Facebook rollout on mental health. I discussed this great paper a long time ago	12×	134k	505	83	191
5	Apr 24, '24	I wanted to share with people on Twitter the total breakdown of sales of my book, Causal Inference: The Mixtape, published by Yale University Press in January 2021.	9.3×	104k	418	48	166
6	Aug 19, '22	Many students starting out for the first time ask "Which stats software should I use? R or Stata?" The debates have gotten stale so I hired the couple on TikTok again to come in an	9.2×	0	2.2k	298	258
7	Jan 29, '18	A senior colleague did me a favor and I told that person that I couldn’t repay them, and they told me “intergenerational favors aren’t supposed to be repaid, they’re supposed to be	8.5×	0	2.1k	551	2
8	Nov 23, '20	Around 6 years ago, my best friend told me his wife was pregnant bc a 99% accurate pregnancy test came back positive. Like any good friend would, rather than congratulating him, I	6.5×	0	1.7k	159	165
9	Mar 24, '21	This new article in economic inquiry coauthored by @nickchk is absolutely terrifying. Seven competent people were given two causal studies to replicate from scratch. No two people	6.3×	0	1.1k	323	220
10	Feb 19, '20	Dude this is freaking hilarious. 20% of papers in the gene literature are screwed up bc freaking excel converted the gene identifiers TO DATE. I think this was on twitter before bu	5.8×	0	1.1k	379	62
11	Jan 8, '22	This is 100% what LinkedIn is like.	5.5×	0	1.6k	202	42
12	Jan 3, '21	Causal Inference: The Mixtape is forthcoming from @yalepress for a physical delivery date of January 26th 2021. But the online version is available now. The online version is free	5.0×	0	863	231	263
13	Feb 22	I’ve been doing a series on Claude code for “quantitative social scientists” on my substack. It’s not much a series I guess as much as I am regularly documenting what I’m learning.	4.9×	54k	411	49	535
14	Apr 15, '20	Brouwer’s fixed point theorem in a 60 second TikTok. Absolutely brilliant. He gets it all done illustrated with a cup of coffee in under a freaking minute. This is the bar.	4.7×	0	1k	184	148
15	Jan 24, '20	I don’t know if this is a controversial take, an obvious take or both. But I have a position on econometrics curriculum I’d like to verbalize. I believe causal inference should be	4.5×	0	833	166	171
16	Mar 31, '19	My 13yo daughter: “so what is bitcoin anyway?” Me: “argh. Ask me about sex or something else.”	4.4×	0	1.5k	108	6
17	Jan 1, '22	View post on X	4.2×	0	1.3k	139	22
18	Dec 22, '19	Absolutely causal. 100% not due to differences in unobserved factors related to leisure and wealth or even regions where there are museums.	4.0×	0	1.2k	179	15
19	Aug 18, '23	Thinking about this new Becker book. When you think abt it, all of us are likely going to die with tons of resting and unfinished papers on our computers. I heard Mulligan or Murph	3.9×	44k	407	48	150
20	Nov 9, '24	Wish me luck. Diff-in-diff is 240 pages over two chapters. Hoping today I finish it as I get imputation written up, and a walk through with a dataset following a checklist. Writing	3.8×	42k	629	41	312
21	Feb 3, '21	Man these lecture notes on data science for economists by @grant_mcdermott are unbelievably good.	3.7×	0	577	119	322
22	Mar 6, '20	This paper finds that THREE zip codes in the United States are responsible for over 50% of the citations in the top five economics journals (as opposed to 12% in other disciplines)	3.7×	0	756	210	61
23	May 5, '20	“I never thought it would take so long to clean the data” - my student	3.6×	0	1.1k	71	15
24	Mar 3, '22	Machine Learning that economists should know about according to @Susan_Athey and Imbens. Includes some causal inference material, but not only that.	3.6×	0	606	157	248
25	Nov 29, '21	This spatial RDD on mask mandates is really well done. It's entitled "Mask Mandates Save Lives" by Hansen and Mano. Also a nice example of a spatial RDD tbh. Heterogenous effects v	3.4×	0	615	158	160
26	Feb 21, '20	Someone should make a deck of slides called "Web scraping for economists". I think that would be super useful for PhD students.	3.4×	0	628	72	235
27	Dec 10, '20	Check this. Today the Mixtape is: - No. 1 in probability and statistics (new release) - No. 18 in probability and statistics (books) - No. 3 in econometrics (best seller) ahead of	3.3×	0	950	43	111
28	Feb 27, '22	New book on introduction economics taught using python. Probably a longrun textbook.	3.2×	0	595	81	256
29	Mar 4, '20	"Causal Inference: The Mixtape" (v1.8) is online. Consider this a beta version. Feel free to share it, light it on fire, use it for your class, whatever. It has 108k words, making	3.2×	0	648	170	123
30	Dec 30, '21	This paper in Econ inquiry by @nickchk was one of my favorite articles of the year. I know that bc I think about it a lot and have taught it twice. It’s very original, required a l	3.1×	0	579	108	195
31	Jan 23, '20	How long does it take to publish in economics? Well here’s one example. Ken Arrow has a forthcoming AEJ: Applied, and he died two years ago.	3.1×	0	739	186	21
32	Oct 11, '21	My book on causal inference shot up 40,000 spots at Amazon (literally).	3.0×	0	1k	22	25
33	Jan 12, '20	I’m curious about what intellectual events changed your life? I’ve said it before but just so I can go first: Becker’s Nobel speech made me go to grad school, Roth and Sotomayor ma	2.9×	0	413	43	115
34	Jun 30, '19	Friday night lights	2.9×	0	1.1k	9	3
35	Apr 10, '25	Today I taught Acemoglu's paper "Simple Macroeconomics of AI" for my "Economics of AI" class at Baylor. If you're dying to see a deck of slides on it, well aren't you in luck. I de	2.9×	32k	542	83	546
36	Jul 6, '21	Look at that distribution of psychiatric beds by country. Now here’s an interesting couple of facts: we have the worlds highest incarceration rate but one of the worlds lowest psyc	2.8×	0	699	132	30
37	Nov 30, '21	This R&R at QJE abt the impact of COVID on economic output, as well as subsequent policies, sounds like an empirical macro paper on recessions that we could see more of going f	2.8×	0	502	117	142
38	Aug 23, '22	Brittany and Michael from TikTok are back to advise students. Should you use Word or LaTeX for your papers? Hopefully this helps clear things up.	2.7×	0	657	63	105
39	Jun 30, '19	Arrested development	2.7×	0	1k	15	3
40	Sep 20, '20	Causal Inference: The Mixtape (Yale University Press) in technicolor. Release date January 26, 2021, for a measly thirty bucks. Think of it as causal inference for the price of two	2.7×	0	659	89	75
41	Apr 25, '20	I can’t stop watching it. The key to a good TikTok voice over is the little things; like subtle perfections in the mannerisms. Yes I’ve thought about this a lot so sue me.	2.6×	0	594	154	25
42	Jul 19, '21	Okay, I just uploaded 9 videos from last week's #CodeChella 2021 to my youtube page. They're numbered. I turned off the video accidentally for @pedrohcgs and @ZhaoBean so I had to	2.6×	0	451	97	182
43	Mar 11, '22	Check this out. You draw the image, it finds the LaTeX Tikz code for you. Pretty helpful.	2.6×	0	373	59	256
44	Apr 22, '20	I've had this lecture called "hidden curriculum" that I usually lead with in my workshops. It's the stuff we don't learn which is central to 1) empirical work and 2) being an acade	2.6×	0	390	82	198
45	Jan 19, '20	Retweeting. But here is what I think. Angrist and Krueger in their JEP on instrumental variables said the best instruments came from deep institutional knowledge. Meaning, it comes	2.5×	0	464	116	109
46	Jan 6, '19	I’ve started this tweet several times. One voice says it’s not people’s business and over sharing. Another voice wonders if never talking out loud about these sorts of things robs	2.5×	0	591	80	31
47	Jan 30, '19	My paper, "Craigslist's Effect on Violence Against Women" (briefly renamed "Craigslist Reduced Violence Against Women but I lost that rebranding by a vote of 2-1) is under review a	2.5×	0	485	155	29
48	Oct 20, '20	Causal inference fans, students and professors: @andrewheiss has posted lecture notes for a new class he’s teaching on causal inference. 30 pages, single space, table of contents,	2.4×	0	354	68	227
49	Nov 28, '21	All models are wrong but some are ridiculous	2.4×	0	756	65	9
50	Apr 19, '19	Ton Sargent summarized economics into twelve things a few years ago in a presentation he gave to Berkeley students. It just showed up on my feed. FYI	2.3×	0	448	119	80
51	Jul 22, '19	Inaugural #JHR_Threads is about the cool study “The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave” by Giovanni Peri (UC Davis) and Vasil Yasenov (Stanford) published in the Spring 2019 of	2.3×	0	377	129	67
52	Aug 26, '18	So I have an Econ joke that makes me laugh but actually no one else. I say “I drink too much at the intensive margin, but not the extensive margin”. Meaning, I don’t drink very oft	2.3×	0	721	64	5
53	Jul 31, '19	Well, it's now official. I just signed my contract with @yalepress to publish my Mixtape. Super excited to be working with @econeditor who along with my wonderful agent @LindsayEdg	2.3×	0	714	32	9
54	Nov 14, '20	This new paper in economic history by Tianyi Wang (PhD Pitt; postdoc Copenhagen) is timely and timeless. He uses variation in a racist populist show caused by topological factors t	2.3×	0	482	83	99
55	Feb 10, '21	I knew Nash’s dissertation was short (27 pages), but I never knew he only had two citations. One of is himself.	2.2×	0	631	79	17
56	Aug 31, '22	I told Brittany and Michael about that JEL paper finding that PhD students have above average struggles with depression, anxiety, loneliness and more, and they have a message to sh	2.1×	0	466	89	62
57	Jun 30, '19	Battlestar gallactica	2.0×	0	743	4	1
58	Nov 22, '19	Alexa please send me a case of these	2.0×	0	547	89	7
59	Nov 17, '21	Not sure what this is prohibiting but it looks horrible	2.0×	0	560	51	13
60	Feb 19, '21	Bruce Hansen posted an updated version of his econometrics textbook he’s made available for twenty years. Man I like this guy.	2.0×	0	367	71	127
61	Mar 3, '19	The economist would’ve said “assume there’s no ring” and saved all this trouble	2.0×	0	486	122	12
62	Jan 28, '21	Professors of economics. What definition of economics do you give on day one? I usually use the lionel Robbins one about unlimited wants and limited resources with a second definit	1.9×	0	376	33	57
63	Apr 27, '19	Just a reminder that this beauty was posted over a year ago. My job is to repost it every few months.	1.8×	0	499	82	29
64	Oct 11, '21	Can’t even explain yet to my non-Econ friends just what a revolutionary force these three economists who just won the Nobel created. My book on causal inference has a blurb by Guid	1.8×	0	563	50	26
65	Oct 24, '21	Pretty cool idea. I may suggest this to my students	1.8×	0	439	56	54
66	Apr 6, '20	Causal Inference: the Mixtape is coming out in December/January from @yalepress . You can preorder here. All your wildest dreams will come true if you buy it (causal claim)!	1.7×	0	462	55	28
67	Feb 7, '19	This visualization of how local linear regression works never gets old. It was the first tweet I ever bookmarked which by revealed preference shows I’m a massive nerd.	1.7×	0	416	56	67
68	Apr 22, '20	Here’s my plan to be successful. While everyone is writing papers on covid, I’m going to write papers on something else.	1.7×	0	558	28	3
69	Oct 1, '20	First year PhD students in economics: first year is hard for many of us. You may be thinking about quitting. It’s your life, friend, but let me give you a few tips of advice. First	1.6×	0	343	50	74
70	Mar 8, '22	People think I’m kidding. I want to be chief economist of Tinder. My entire career literally has been abt sex markets, internet and platforms. My dissertation was on gender imbalan	1.6×	0	457	16	56
71	Apr 4, '19	What’s your degree in? Me: Economics Ooh, what stock should I buy! What’s bitcoin? Don’t you hate fiat money? Me: fakes a heart attack	1.6×	0	410	61	1
72	Sep 1, '20	For those wondering how I'm doing, I'm doing great. My 18yo son is now living with me full time and it's been such a real joy. My 13yo daughter comes over constantly. And our middl	1.5×	0	589	0	0
73	Dec 2, '21	A nice way to introduce causal inference is to say “prediction is abt y hat. Causal inference is abt beta hat”. Learned that from a friend. It sort of gives this nice concept for s	1.5×	0	382	41	64
74	Apr 26, '19	Good news! This will be the evidence I show my youngest as proof that I am a real doctor. If this doesn’t work then I give up.	1.5×	0	492	0	0
75	Nov 29, '21	We got home after a week at my moms and the cats were nowhere to be found. I’d had someone checking on them and was watching them on the security camera but they weren’t here. Well	1.5×	0	429	16	17
76	May 31, '20	I’m going to delete twitter for a month. Need a break from here. Anyone wanting to talk, feel free to text or call. My cell is on my vita probably. Good luck to everyone this next	1.5×	0	503	6	5
77	Sep 8, '20	We are all set with the cover art; Here it is! I love the cassette tape which @econeditor suggested a long time ago. And honestly, it sort of maps back to my Yeezus cover which is	1.4×	0	442	20	23
78	May 10, '20	I predict this will be in the top 10 front pages of the @nytimes since it first began. The importance of data visualization to making your point cannot be overstated.	1.4×	0	346	81	11
79	Jan 14, '22	View post on X	1.4×	0	394	37	24
80	Apr 17, '21	You know screw it. Anyone can attend the DD code-chella concert, faculty or student or anyone. It’s at 2500 and some faculty are already enrolled anyway so anyone is welcome.	1.4×	0	330	47	46
81	Dec 5, '21	View post on X	1.4×	0	382	49	10
82	Jan 17, '22	Installing R or python for me basically involves doing about ten things I find online, none of which I understand, and just praying at the end of it, it's installed.	1.4×	0	453	13	11
83	May 27, '20	Just FYI - people in labor, education, and macro say human capital all the time. It’s an important concept. Might as well be offended for saying money.	1.3×	0	399	21	5
84	Dec 14, '19	Why do people fresh out of school want to make a ton of money and build social capital that will increase permanent income and influence? Man. I’m going to have to think about that	1.3×	0	402	27	9
85	Sep 3, '18	My son many years ago while listening to “Ignition” on the way to school: “Why does he need to have an after party? Why not just one big party?” Me: “Rising marginal costs and capa	1.3×	0	384	46	4
86	Jan 23, '20	Ouch	1.2×	0	354	43	7
87	Dec 1, '21	Ht @ez_angus	1.2×	0	361	28	20
88	Jul 26, '19	Have been told NUMEROUS times by students how powerfully important and meaningful #econtwitter is to their lives and careers. I suspect this is an important community for the profe	1.2×	0	370	21	8
89	Nov 2, '21	TIL programming in R is going to involve googling nonstop every thing I want to do	1.2×	0	370	9	9
90	Nov 4, '21	I hate all graphs I can’t immediately understand	1.2×	0	366	29	2
91	May 3, '20	Saw a great quote on Facebook which summarizes many things right now. "Some of us are free enough to enjoy playing at being oppressed."	1.2×	0	333	46	9
92	Apr 17, '20	Willow: “do I get to keep the $500?” Me: “What $500?” Willow: “The $500 Trump is sending me.” Me: “That’s for me & your mom for raising you.” Willow: “no it’s for me. If you di	1.1×	0	396	16	2
93	Apr 7, '21	I won something! I haven’t won anything since a couple of poetry prizes in 1999. It’s a cash award too and I’m spending all of it on a virtual assistant.	1.1×	0	411	1	0
94	Oct 5, '19	Revise and resubmit at Journal of Health Economics. First for me, super pumped.	1.1×	0	424	0	0
95	Dec 12, '20	I won’t ever get over this tbh. Young MC said I changed how he thought about the difference between correlation and causality. Young MC. Bust a Move. Pinch me. This is really almos	1.1×	0	360	12	8
96	Mar 9, '21	You know, if I had had linear algebra, stats, real analysis and econometrics as an undergrad, my entire econometrics education at Georgia would’ve been a stream of insights one aft	1.1×	0	337	11	19
97	Sep 30, '20	You guys, uh I got a famous rapper to write me a blurb for the Mixtape. Once I get the green light, I'll post it, but I'm losing my mind.	1.0×	0	351	2	0
98	Jul 6, '19	Screw keto. I’m going to the movie theater and drinking IPAs and watching Toy Story by myself bc I have tenure	1.0×	0	365	0	0
99	Jun 18, '21	Well this is nice. @Stata just wrote me and said they’re carrying my book in the stata bookstore. I didn’t know I was allowed to have that on the bucket list.	1.0×	0	342	9	8
100	Jul 7, '21	Good lord I just got a million new followers. Well get ready for some enthusiastic ted lasso content people	0.9×	0	348	2	1
101	Jul 30, '21	My daughter just got a job at a tex mex restaurant as a server and she’s super excited. I’m here and going to give her a big tip which is basically a dad dream of mine.	0.8×	0	324	3	1

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