Episode 6 of the Odd Couple: How Will We Draw Our Diff-in-Diff?

About this episode

Scott Cunningham and Caitlin Myers discuss the impact of House Bill 2 on travel distance to abortion clinics in Texas while preparing for a diff-in-diff analysis.

In this episode of the Mixtape with Scott, and season 5's "The Odd Couple", featuring Caitlin Myers and myself (Scott Cunningham), we work with Claude Code to make beautiful figures of our identification strategy -- the change in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by House Bill 2 closing half of Texas's abortion clinics. We are slowly beginning to prepare for our diff-in-diff strategy using continuous treatment, but not there yet. Scott's Mixtape Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to Scott's Mixtape Substack at causalinf.substack.com/subscribe

People in this episode

Host: Scott Cunningham

Guest: Caitlin Myers

Topics covered

• abortion clinics
• diff-in-diff strategy
• identification strategy
• travel distance
• policy impact

Keywords

• abortion
• Texas
• House Bill 2
• diff-in-diff
• travel distance
• identification strategy
• Caitlin Myers
• Scott Cunningham

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: House Bill 2

Places: Texas

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