The Odd Couple Season 5 Episode 3: What's up with this data?
About this episode
Scott Cunningham and Caitlin Myers discuss their research on the effects of House Bill 2 on marriages and divorces in Texas.
This podcast is part of my long running podcast called “The Mixtape with Scott”, which had historically been an oral history of economics through in-depth interviews with living economists. After around 130 interviews over four seasons, I’m taking a break to talk about Claude Code with my good friend and coauthor, Caitlin Myers ! What we do on the podcast is we are doing a research project together, from start to finish, on abortion and marriage. Specifically, we are studying the effect that of a natural experiment called House Bill 2 that required abortion facilities’ clinicians and physicians to have admitting privileges at hospitals. This led to half the state’s clinics to close causing an increase in travel distance to the nearest abortion facility to rise. Several papers have been written about the effect this had, including one by us, but in this podcast we tackle a question that had not been studied yet — the effect it had on new marriages and new divorces. But where did we get the data for this? Claude Code found it for us. While I knew of the data, we put Claude Code on the task of finding it — which it did. Claude Code found the data for us on its own, downloaded it for…
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