Scott Cunningham (economist)

Scott Cunningham is a professor of economics at Baylor University, Research Fellow of the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty, and Research Affiliate of the Computational Justice Lab.

He is known for his work in the field of applied microeconomics, particularly in relation to the economics of sex work, substance use, and public policy. He also is widely recognized for popularizing advances in non-experimental impact evaluation methods (causal inference) and making it more accessible to practitioners. He wrote the Yale University Press textbook Causal Inference: The Mixtape.

He holds a B.A. in literature from the University of Tennessee and a PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia.