Awesome Ai For Economists
A curated list of AI tools, libraries, and resources for economics research, teaching, and policy analysis. Maintained by the OpenEcon team.
Econ Slides
Build professional academic economics slide decks in LaTeX/Beamer: turn a paper into a conference, seminar, or job-market talk; build discussant slides; polish or shorten an existing deck. Use when the user mentions slides, presentation, talk, deck, beamer, seminar, conference, job talk, job market presentation, discussion, or discussant in an economics or social-science research context.
Matlab Plot Skill
Use this skill when MATLAB figures look messy: cramped subplots, unreadable titles, awkward legends, bad page fit, or broken PDF output for LaTeX or Overleaf. It turns rough MATLAB plots into publication-quality figures by exporting the figure, reading the rendered figure, and iterating on the layout until it looks clean.
Overleaf
Refresh local .tex/.bib files against Overleaf before AI edits, so the agent never edits a stale copy (default Overleaf-to-Dropbox sync lags 10-20 min). Refresh path: probe `/project/<id>/updates` (read-only), skip if nothing changed, skip if all changes were our own Dropbox round-trips, else download-zip and extract only the web-origin changed files. WHEN: (1) before editing .tex/.bib/.cls/.sty/…
Overleaf Sync Now
Stops Claude Code and Codex CLI from silently overwriting your Overleaf web edits with a stale local Dropbox copy. PreToolUse hook + CLI + agent skill.
Econ Write
Expert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user writes, edits, reviews, rewrites, or structures any economics paper, thesis, job market paper, abstract, introduction, conclusion, results section, literature review, or referee re…