Economist Kevin Bryan's PhD tech stack: reproducible, efficient, open — with GitHub, LaTeX and Cursor
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-10-08
Economist Kevin Bryan (Toronto Rotman) published a tech stack guide for social science PhD students built on three principles: reproducible (entire paper recreatable with one line of code, raw data never modified, version control), efficient (use modern and AI tools to raise the quality bar), and open (public data, working papers online). He offers a same-day starter exercise — create a project folder, push to GitHub, edit and compile LaTeX in Cursor, inspect diffs — and argues that in 2025, sending journals a PDF with hidden data and no working paper is ridiculous.
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