eursr-research-design
Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data. ESR judges whether the design lets the comparison or panel identify the mechanism. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design --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 (eursr-research-design) ESR is a quantitative journal exacting about whether the **comparative or longitudinal design actually identifies the mechanism** from `eursr-theory-building` and rules out the leading confound. The design must connect the cross-level hypothesis to evidence that a single cross-section could not provide. ## When to trigger - Specifying the comparative frame, the panel structure, sampling, or the identification strategy - A reviewer questioned causal claims, generalization, selection, measurement comparability, or a confound - Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from `eursr-literature-positioning` ## Comparative / cross-national - **Justify the country set** by design logic (institutional contrast, regime types, most/least-similar), not by data availability alone; say what variation each context contributes. - **Measurement equivalence** is the first reviewer demand: establish that constructs mean the same across countries (configural/metric/scalar invariance for latent scales; harmonized coding for education via ISCED/CASMIN, occupation via ISCO/ISEI/EGP). - **Macro N is small.** With ~20-30 countries, country-level effe
- When to trigger
- Comparative / cross-national
- Panel / longitudinal / event-history
- Causal inference where feasible
- Multilevel / SEM
- The adjudication test (ESR-specific)
- What ESR referees demand of each design
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix
- Calibration anchors
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the eursr-research-design skill do?
Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data. ESR judges whether the design lets the comparison or panel identify the mechanism. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design --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.