I interviewed Scott Cunningham (@causalinf), professor of economics at Baylor, on Claude Code, AI, and economics.
Scott's *51* post series on Substack on Claude Code for economics research has been instrumental for introducing agentic coding to economists.
Here's what we discussed:
> Scott's views on verification in AI-aided applied microeconomics
> The impact of AI on the returns to understanding econometrics
> How Scott is testing the models' tendencies to specification search
> What Scott discovered doing a multi-language replication of Callaway Sant'Anna 2021 (@pedrohcgs)
> How AI is helping Scott, an applied microeconomist, start to do applied theory
> Scott's experience teaching agentic coding at his causal inference workshops ("The Mixtape Sessions")
> How Scott is adapting his teaching due to AI
You can catch it on YouTube here: https://t.co/PgxARhHXV3
The full transcript is available on my site here: https://t.co/kUUXqUfaDx
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I put together a short practical guide for economists who want to use Claude Code, but who haven't gotten around to trying yet.
The goal is to reduce the start-up costs by using Claude Code within VS Code.
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Episode 5 of Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham's mini series on Claude Code for Applied Economists is out now!
In this episode, "Writing and thinking," Paul showed how Claude can support the writing side of research.
Watch now: https://t.co/kVN1Pecrjg
On Substack: https://t.co/8vQ6bLJQyq
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham on using Claude Code with large datasets. Part of a series on Claude Code for Applied Economists on #MarkusAcademy https://t.co/c6TuWpKjrX
Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham joined #MarkusAcademy for a mini-series on Claude Code for Applied Economists.
The first three (of seven) episodes are available:
1. Getting Started
2. Data Analysis
3. Web Scraping
Watch now: https://t.co/kVN1Pecrjg
Substack: https://t.co/dgiHrMNJpl