S2E31: Nick Cox, Geographer, Stata Part 2

Welcome to the Mixtape with Scott podcast! That feels strange typing since by now, I shouldn’t have to write it that way, but you never know — maybe someone is coming today for the first time and will be coming upon the second part of a two part interview with Nick Cox, a geographer at Durham in the UK, and longtime contributor to public and club goods around Stata, the software used by many economists at least. This is as I said Part 2 in a two part interview. The point of interviewing Nick as I said last time is that this podcast is an oral history of the economics profession of the last 50 years told through the personal stories of economists, and others that I think otherwise fit into that story. And the software we use to do our work, particularly when it allowed many of us to do empirical work for most of our careers, is a big part of that story. And Stata is a big part of that story, and Nick is a big part of Stata’s story, so I did a two part interview with him.

Apologies that I have been slow updating the substack. I’ve had what feels like a lot more grading and administrative work than usual. I’ve also got a tad bit of some personal things coming to a head right now, and I’m hoping that will end soon. Tomorrow I will post some information about a few upcoming workshops at Mixtape Sessions, but while I have your attention, one of them is on shift-share IV with Peter Hull which starts next week September 25 and 27 in the evening from 6-9PM. Details here at this link. Should be great. You’ll learn be essentially brought to the frontier of this material and there’s going to be a lot of coding so that should be fun. So check it out!

In the meantime, thanks for supporting the podcast, which as you’ve probably figured out by now is my labor of love, my passion project. I have found that personal grief in my own life has been made more meaningful for some reason through this style of documentary biography of others in our profession. I hope you find it useful and interesting too. If you like this podcast, please consider supporting it. But share it with someone who you think will find it useful too. As I tell myself and others — all of us belong. All of our stories matter. Yours and mine too, as well as the people I talk to. So have a great day.

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