ecopol-robustness
Use when an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's results may be specification-, sample-, or inference-fragile, especially ahead of the two-discussant panel. Organizes robustness by the threat a discussant will raise; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-robustness --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.
# Robustness Strategy (ecopol-robustness) ## When to trigger - The headline policy magnitude moves under plausible alternative specifications - A discussant could attribute the result to one sample, period, or country - Inference rests on few clusters / few treated units (common in policy evaluations) - The result is statistically significant but the **magnitude** — the part a policymaker uses — is imprecise - You are pre-empting the academic discussant's "have you tried…" before the conference ## Robustness is discussant-proofing, not a checklist dump At EP, robustness has a specific purpose: the paper will be debated live by **two invited discussants** who act as the referees, and the academic one will arrive with a list of fragility tests. So organize robustness **by the threat each test neutralizes**, not as a mechanical appendix of "alternative specifications." A reader (and the policy discussant) should see, for each test, *which way of being wrong it rules out*. Because EP papers carry a recommendation, the central object to defend is the **magnitude and its confidence interval**, not just the sign. ## The threat-to-test map (build the robustness section from this) | Threat
- When to trigger
- Robustness is discussant-proofing, not a checklist dump
- The threat-to-test map (build the robustness section from this)
- Craft moves
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the ecopol-robustness skill do?
Use when an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's results may be specification-, sample-, or inference-fragile, especially ahead of the two-discussant panel. Organizes robustness by the threat a discussant will raise; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ecopol-robustness --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.