Sex work, Craigslist, and the law; podcast with Scott Cunningham

from Market Design at http://bit.ly/2EtR03c on February 16, 2018 at 01:55PM

Here’s a link to an interview with Scott Cunningham, whose work on sex work I’ve blogged about before. There’s a surprising amount of discussion about causal inference and differences in differences. (I always suspected that econometrics was sexy, but this is the first time I’ve heard a podcast about that.)

JANUARY 26, 2018 GARRETT M. PETERSEN   
"The working paper on Craigslist generated a lot of media attention, with articles at Huffington Postand ThinkProgress. The most quoted statistic is that “Craigslist erotic services reduced the female homicide rate by 17.4 percent.” We discuss this statistic, its possible causes, and whether or not it is implausibly large.