Scott Cunningham

professor of economics
baylor university

Working papers, works in progress and other writings

Works in Progress

"Power to the Platform: Online Dating and American Fertility",
(with Christine Durrance and Melanie Guldi)
"Bad Trips: The Effect of Decriminalization on Psychedelic-Associated Emergency Department Visits",
(with Jared Black)
"Guards vs. Inmates: Who Prevents Self-Harm in Prison?",
(with Christopher Cornwell and Jonathan Seward)
"Predicting Suicide Risk in Texas Prisons",
(with Jonathan Seward and Christopher Cornwell)
"Predicting Suicide Risk in a Large Urban County Jail",
(with Jonathan Seward and Christopher Cornwell)

Under Review

"Unintended Consequences of Life-Saving Pharmaceutical Innovations: How HAART Led to the Resurgence of Syphilis",
(with David Beheshti and Nir Eilam). Revise and Resubmit at Health Economics.
"Leadership, Communication, and Gender Peer Effects at the National Outdoor Leadership School",
(with Benjamin Blemings and Matthew Pearson). Review and Resubmit at Southern Economic Journal.
"Dialogue with Cosmos: A Causal AI Guide" ,

Other Working Papers

"Massage Parlor Fees, Expansion and Sexually Transmitted Infections",
(with Amanda Nguyen and Manisha Shah)
"Can Base ChatGPT be Used for Forecasting Without Additional Optimization",
(with Van Pham)
"ElectionGPT: Using LLMs For Predicting Out of Sample with Presidential Elections",
(with Jared Black and Coco Sun)
"Effect of Being Nice to ChatGPT on Task Accuracy, Sentiment and Verbosity",
(with Joshua Ramsay)
"Non-Routine Tasks, Spiritual Workers and LLM Bias",
(with Joshua Ramsay and Hayley Lam)
"Depression, Human Capital and Other Labor Market Outcomes",
(with Francesca Cornaglia, Peter Fallesen and Chiara Serra)
"Mental Health Traps",
(with Francesca Cornaglia, Peter Fallesen, Chiara Serra and Gregory Veramendi)
"It Starts Early! Male-dominated Classes and Girl's Bullying",
(with Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Antonio Melo, Silvia Mendolia and Giulia Savio)
"The Influence of the Children and Grandchildren of the Credibility Revolution",
(with Daniel Chen, Sahar Parsa, and Anders Kjelsrud)