I design this workflow template because I hope my 50+ years' old parents pursuing social science PhD (that's a fact, not a fake story!) can easily access LLM-based automated empirical research. It requires a computer, access to clever LLM agents and ability to type or speak to setup.

Claim 1: I still recommend you have (1) specialized coding agent and research agent; (2) a Dropbox account for collaboration; (3) a GitHub account for version control; (4) ability to understand LLM's code.

Claim 2: At this stage, LLMs can't generate an AER paper on their own. This workflow template aims to help LLMs work as your junior coauthors, not to produce field-top level papers without human intervention!

LaTex-based PDF generation, theortical analysis and structual estimation are to be added in the future.

Left a comment or email if you want to give me with suggestions/help me improve the template!