Integration & Collaboration: Claude Code for Econ. w/ P. Goldsmith-Pinkham | Markus Academy | 162-8

Link to sign up for the webinar series: https://markusacademy.substack.com/ Paul’s detailed notes on this episode can be found here: https://paulgp.substack.com/p/integra... Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham joined Markus’ Academy for a mini-series on Claude Code for Applied Economists. This is the last episode of the 8 part series. Goldsmith-Pinkham is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. Through a replication of Jay Ritter’s results on post-IPO stock performance, Paul shared some best practices for verifying Claude Code’s work. Integrating with GitHub let him track the project as a chain of committed steps rather than one final output, and review Claude’s work one change at a time. Finally, Paul connected the project’s repository to Overleaf via GitHub (Dropbox works too), so that Claude can update figures and tables directly in one’s paper. The core principle: every number in a draft should come from the code, not from an AI’s memory. Timestamps: [0:00] Verification is the new bottleneck [6:30] Using GitHub to verify Claude’s output [38:35] How to give feedback [52:27] Integration with Overleaf for Collaboration