I'm an economist (PhD Northwestern) who teaches other economists how to use agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Codex.
I do this primarily on my platform "The AI Economist". This work, and my work building EconNow - a data platform for economists - was awarded an Emergent Ventures Grant from the Mercatus Center.
I teach agentic coding to a broader audience on YouTube (8,000+ subscribers) and in my Skool server, the AI MBA (1,800+ members).
I work with organizations on AI strategy and implementation, especially where the work needs to become real software rather than a slide deck. At Zelle and Payslice, I built production ML, underwriting, data, and full-stack systems across financial data at serious scale.
My academic work has been published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Information Economics and Policy.
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I provide hours of free materials for economists learning agentic coding. I also offer individual tutoring and group workshops, and send out a weekly newsletter on what is important for economists to keep up with in AI.
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EconNow is an economist-gated data platform for the economics profession, publishing agent-readable metadata about people, papers, institutions, conferences, and job-market cohorts through public discovery pages plus API and MCP surfaces.
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Tutorials, interviews, and live demos on Claude Code, Codex, AI agents, and the way AI is changing research and software work for 8,000+ subscribers.
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Payslice
Led AI and machine-learning work across underwriting, production infrastructure, analytics, and internal agent tooling. Built full-stack systems spanning FastAPI, Next.js, Postgres, Convex, AWS, Terraform, and Plaid.
Early Warning Services (Zelle)
Built fraud-model monitoring, large-scale Spark and Scala data systems, feature libraries, synthetic-data tooling, and production data-quality pipelines across high-volume financial infrastructure.
Northwestern University
Research in media economics, digital platforms, and economic history. Published work in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Information Economics and Policy.
Published research
Information Economics and Policy, 2026
Using a Patreon natural experiment, the paper studies what happens when YouTube creators lose recurring subscription revenue. Creators reduce video output and shift toward affiliate marketing and sponsored content, while ad-roll frequency tied to video duration does not meaningfully change.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023
Using GoFundMe data and variation from the ACA Medicaid expansion, the paper shows that expanded insurance coverage reduced medical fundraising. It also documents unequal campaign outcomes by organizer name-based racial and ethnic signals, highlighting how crowdfunding can reinforce health-access disparities.
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