expecon-identification
Use when the credibility of an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript rests on experimental control — incentive compatibility, randomization, the no-deception gate, and clean treatment contrasts. Stress-tests design-based identification before exhibits are finalized; it does not draft prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-identification --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.
# Experimental Control & Identification (expecon-identification) ## When to trigger - A referee questions whether the treatment effect is causal or an artifact of an uncontrolled difference - Payoffs may not be **incentive compatible** — subjects could earn more by misreporting, or stakes are hypothetical/trivial - Any procedure risks tripping the **ESA no-deception norm** (false feedback, fake co-players, rigged draws, undisclosed payoff manipulation) - Randomization, session structure, or the order of treatments could confound the comparison ## Identification at ExpEcon = control + a clean contrast In observational economics, identification is an argument about why selection does not bias the estimate. In the lab, **you manufacture identification by design**: randomization plus tight control means the *only* systematic difference across conditions is the manipulated dimension. The job here is to verify that claim holds, on four fronts. ### 1. The two gates (binary; check first) - **No deception (hard gate).** Experimental Economics only considers studies that **do not deceive participants** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). This is the single most common cause of an ExpEcon desk reject. Decep
- When to trigger
- Identification at ExpEcon = control + a clean contrast
- 1. The two gates (binary; check first)
- 2. Randomization & control
- 3. Comprehension, order, and learning
- 4. The estimand and inference unit
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the fix
- Quick incentive-compatibility reference
- Output format
What does the expecon-identification skill do?
Use when the credibility of an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript rests on experimental control — incentive compatibility, randomization, the no-deception gate, and clean treatment contrasts. Stress-tests design-based identification before exhibits are finalized; it does not draft prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-identification --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.