An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, Extends Published Economics Research
Home Research Working Papers An LLM Workflow That Reproduces,… An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, and Extends Published Economics Research Matthew Schwartz, Isaiah Andrews & Jesse M. Shapiro Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 35782 DOI 10.3386/w35782 Issue Date September 2026 We introduce an open-source workflow that enables an LLM to reproduce, improve, and extend an economics article using the article’s published replication package. First, the workflow attempts to reproduce the original calculations, checks for discrepancies with published findings, and performs automated sensitivity analysis.
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- ▪First, the workflow attempts to reproduce the original calculations, checks for discrepancies with published findings, and performs automated sensitivity analysis.
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| Original publisher | NBER |
| Canonical URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w35782 |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:46:17 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T18:52:31.858Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T18:52:31.858Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | dnxz9mLbpNzo · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Home Research Working Papers An LLM Workflow That Reproduces,… An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, and Extends Published Economics Research Matthew Schwartz, Isaiah Andrews & Jesse M. Shapiro Share X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 35782 DOI 10.3386/w35782 Issue Date September 2026 We introduce an open-source workflow that enables an LLM to reproduce, improve, and extend an economics article using the article’s published replication package. First, the workflow attempts to reproduce the original calculations, checks for discrepancies with published findings, and performs automated sensitivity analysis. Across 4,452 published replication packages for five economics journals, the workflow flags discrepancies in 3,460 articles or their appendices.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at NBER.