car-methods
Use when the research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — choosing and defending an archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey design and, for human-participant work, meeting CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (car-data-analysis).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-methods --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Research Design & Methods (car-methods) ## When to trigger - The design may not deliver the inference the question needs (identification, internal validity, equilibrium logic) - An archival causal claim rests on an endogenous regressor with no strategy - An experiment's manipulation may not isolate the theorized construct - The study involves human participants and ethics-approval verification is unprepared - A reviewer says "the design cannot support this claim" ## Match the design to the question (CAR is method-agnostic) CAR welcomes any appropriate method; the bar is *fit and rigor*, not a preferred method. Pick the design that earns the claim: | Claim | Design that earns it | |----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------| | Capital-market/contracting effect of reporting | Panel archival with fixed effects + an identification strategy | | Causal effect of an information feature on judgment | Controlled experiment (lab/online/professional subjects) | | Existence/optimality of an equilibrium or contract | Analytical model: primitives, equilibrium concept, proofs | | Mechanism inside firms, audits, or stand
- When to trigger
- Match the design to the question (CAR is method-agnostic)
- Design against the threats CAR reviewers probe
- CAR-specific design requirements
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the car-methods skill do?
Use when the research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — choosing and defending an archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey design and, for human-participant work, meeting CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation (car-data-analysis).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-methods --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.