Free trainings
Public tutorials and worked examples on agentic coding for economics research, released on YouTube and as written guides. The best place to start if you are new to Claude Code or Codex.
Watch the latest tutorial →Agentic AI for Economists
Most AI education is made for software developers. The AI Economist teaches economists how to adapt agentic coding tools like Codex and Claude Code to accelerate economics research.
Aniket Panjwani (PhD Economics, Northwestern) is the creator of The AI Economist. His work on teaching AI to economists was awarded an Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center in December 2025. Before this, he spent six years as an ML engineer at Zelle and led AI/ML at Payslice. He creates educational videos on agentic coding for an audience of over 7,900 on YouTube and runs The AI MBA, an AI education community with over 1,800 members.
Aniket has done individual coaching with faculty at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and other institutions on bringing agentic coding into their research. He has also led live agentic coding workshops at central banks and universities, including the Deutsche Bundesbank Research Centre and the University of Calgary.
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How I work with economists
Group workshops
Multi-session, hands-on workshops for a department, research center, or PhD cohort. Shaped to your group's actual research patterns, not generic developer demos.
Bring this to your department →Individual coaching
One-on-one sessions on integrating agentic coding into your specific research workflows. Choose 60 minutes for a focused workflow or debugging session, or 90 minutes for deeper setup and strategy.
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What economists are saying
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
“Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.”
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Gideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton
“The fact that Aniket gears the material specifically to economists rather than to a generic technical audience makes a huge difference. I would strongly recommend the course to any economics department, and honestly to any social scientist.”
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Joseph Flavian GomesAssociate Professor of Economics, IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain
“Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.”
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Alexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan
“Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.”
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Arpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
“Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.”
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Heyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
Alex TabarrokProfessor of Economics and co-founder of Marginal Revolution
Tim de SilvaAssistant Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Alexander KustovAssociate Professor, University of Notre Dame
Nick TsivanidisAssistant Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley
“Learning the frontier of agentic coding practices from Aniket has been a rewarding experience! Aniket is passionate about the topic and extremely knowledgeable. He has a talent for explaining complex topics clearly. Much of the content online about agentic coding is geared toward building apps, so having Aniket tailor the material to my specific needs was incredibly helpful.”
Click to read full quoteGideon BornsteinAssistant Professor of Finance, Wharton
“The fact that Aniket gears the material specifically to economists rather than to a generic technical audience makes a huge difference. I would strongly recommend the course to any economics department, and honestly to any social scientist.”
Click to read full quoteJoseph Flavian GomesAssociate Professor of Economics, IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain
“Aniket introduced me to a whole new magical world of agentic coding and helped me get up to speed far faster than I could have on my own. My productivity across many tasks skyrocketed, and my reliance on research assistants decreased substantially. I recommend Aniket 100% to any economist getting up to speed with agentic coding.”
Click to read full quoteAlexey MakarinAssistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan
“Aniket is an amazing teacher and showed me how to effectively incorporate Claude Code into my research. Highly recommended for any economist trying to level up their workflow. For economists working with messy data or complex empirical workflows, this is a productivity boom, and working with Aniket will pay immediate dividends.”
Click to read full quoteArpit GuptaAssociate Professor of Finance, NYU Stern
“Aniket has quickly gotten me up to speed on Claude Code for applied microeconomics research. My comfort zone is Stata and Dropbox, but he's helped me learn to be effective in a terminal, which I would have never expected, and I'm starting to even use Claude Code to tackle bigger, structural projects which would have previously been infeasible for me. Aniket's really an expert at explaining the parts of agentic coding which are relevant for economists - I can't recommend him enough if you're looking to use these tools for social science.”
Click to read full quoteHeyu XiongAssociate Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve
Abdoulaye NdiayeAssistant Professor of Economics, NYU Stern
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See the full path →Where to start
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Watch the talk
A 1-hour VoxDev talk on why agentic coding matters now for economics research, and what becomes possible when an economist uses these tools.
Start here →02Pick up the main tools
Full courses in Claude Code and Codex, each paired with a written companion that calibrates the course for empirical research.
Start here →03Apply to real research
Tutorials and articles on replication packages, structural estimation, manuscript editing, and the empirical patterns that come up repeatedly.
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Full archive →Recent writing
Newsletter
Can AI help you understand economics faster?
A practical experiment in using /goal to accelerate learning without outsourcing the thinking.
May 25, 2026Article
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You're not using GPT Pro nearly enough
How to use GPT Pro with Codex for complex research, consulting, and software planning without manual copy-pasting.
May 19, 2026. 16 min readNewsletter
Does /goal matter for economists?
I introduce /goal , the productivity gains you can get from using it, and some suggestions for using it for economics research.
May 19, 2026Group workshops on agentic coding for economists.
Aniket has worked with over 100 economists across individual and group sessions to get them up to speed on Claude Code and Codex. Interested in having him work with your department or institution?