The Odd Couple Episode 4: Introducing Hannah
From The Mixtape with Scott by scott cunningham
March 31, 2026 · 33 min
About this episode
In this episode, Caitlin Myers and Scott Cunningham introduce Hannah Sayre, a recent graduate who will assist in their research project on abortion clinic closures and marriage.
If the concept of a podcast where two economists use Claude Code to do research together sounds absurd, well, you would not be wrong. But that has not stopped Caitlin Myers and I from doing it. This podcast is about the two of us using Claude Code to do a research project together on abortion clinic closures and the effect it had on marriage using a Texas natural experiment called House Bill 2, and county level marriage data we collected with Claude in an earlier episode. Some of you had asked to see the “beautiful deck” that Claude made for us last week and so here it is! And here is the YouTube video if you’re wanting to watch us and meet Hannah. The age of AI has shifted things somewhat for researchers where we have to bring in verification of what we do sooner and often. Figuring out how, when and where to do that is something me and Caitlin, as well as most listeners, are trying to figure out too. Caitlin had the idea of embodying our own verification methods with a real live human being — a former student of hers, Hannah Sayre, a recent graduate of Middlebury College. In this episode, we meet Hannah, talk with her and hear about her own story and journey as a young person…
People in this episode
Host: Caitlin Myers
Guest: Hannah Sayre
Topics covered
- economics
- research
- abortion clinic closures
- marriage
- AI in research
- verification methods
Keywords
- economics
- abortion
- marriage
- AI
- research
- verification
- House Bill 2
- Hannah Sayre
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Middlebury College
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