The data layer for the economics profession.

EconNow provides an MCP server for economists to search across all economics conferences and job market candidates from within Claude Code or Codex.

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job market candidates and economics conferences accessible to any verified economists by email.

Coming Soon

MCP will soon allow you to query across all faculty, papers, programs and central banks.

How it works

EconNow lets economists query the profession from inside Claude Code, Codex, Claude, or ChatGPT.

You do not need to understand MCP to use it. After you authenticate with a verified economist's email, your agent gets a secure way to search EconNow and return structured answers with links back to the public records.

This means an economics, finance, marketing, accounting, or economic history PhD, professor, researcher, or PhD student using a verifiable institutional email.

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Connect by MCP

If you are an economist or economics PhD student, start by adding the EconNow MCP server to your agent.

Authenticate

Your client may open a browser approval screen. If it does not, use the Codex or Claude Code instructions below to complete authentication.

Use the MCP to query the economics profession

Ask normal-language questions about job-market candidates, conferences, and later faculty, papers, programs, and central banks.

Example agent session

What the MCP connection feels like.

The setup detail is just one URL: https://api.econ.now/mcp. The day-to-day experience is asking targeted research and recruiting questions.

$ econnow ask

> Find 2025 labor JMCs with JMPs on minimum wage policy.

EconNow found matching candidates across institutions, with fields, candidate websites, and MCP-only paper metadata.

> Which conferences have submission deadlines in the next 90 days?

Returned conference dates, deadlines, locations, and submission links.

Client instructions

Authenticate in Codex or Claude Code.

If your client does not show a browser login automatically, add the server first and then start the OAuth flow from the client.

Codex

Codex reads Streamable HTTP MCP servers from config.toml. After the server is named econnow, run the login command and complete the browser OAuth prompt.

# ~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.econnow]
url = "https://api.econ.now/mcp"

# then authenticate
codex mcp login econnow

Claude Code

Claude Code can add a remote HTTP MCP server from the CLI. Then open the /mcp menu in Claude Code, choose econnow, and authenticate in the browser.

claude mcp add --transport http econnow https://api.econ.now/mcp

# inside Claude Code
/mcp

Can't connect but think you should be able to?

EconNow is intended for economists and economics PhD students. If your institutional email is not recognized yet, use the help page to send the details needed for review.

Request access help

Data listings

Browse the lightweight index views.

These compact pages are useful after you connect or sign in. We will expose an ungated public subset once the public summary API is ready; full details stay available through MCP.

2025 job-market candidatesCandidate names, institutions, fields, and candidate website links in a compact table.ConferencesConference records with dates, deadlines, locations, fields, and submission links.

Live surface

Job market candidates

Current MCP work focuses on job-market candidate records: fields, affiliations, papers, public links, and contribution paths.

Browse JMCs

Find 2025 JMCs in labor economics with JMPs on minimum wages.

Show macro-finance candidates with public dissertation pages.

List job-market candidates by institution and primary field.

Job-market candidate profilefields, institution, JMP metadata, public links Official affiliation signalcandidate records are bounded by verified economist access Profile contribution pathclaims and corrections route through operator review

Live surface

Conferences

Conference records are the second live surface: dates, deadlines, locations, and submission metadata for agent queries.

View conferences

Find conferences with submission deadlines in the next 90 days.

Show meetings with job market paper sessions.

List public economics conferences in North America.

Conference recorddates, location, deadlines, submission links Conference update pathnew events and corrections can be proposed through MCP

Coming next

A complete directory of the economics profession.

EconNow aims to become the central data repository for economists, accessible from their coding agents. Find any paper at any journal, with a download link when a public copy is available and the journal page when it is not.

About the creator

Aniket Panjwani

Aniket Panjwani (PhD Economics, Northwestern) builds tools and training for economists working with AI agents. He is the creator of The AI Economist and EconNow.

His work teaching AI to economists was awarded an Emergent Ventures grant from the Mercatus Center. Before this, he spent six years as an ML engineer at Zelle and led AI/ML at Payslice.

Aniket creates educational videos on agentic coding for an audience of about 8,000 YouTube subscribers. He has coached faculty at Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and other institutions on bringing Codex, Claude Code, and MCP-style workflows into research.