imfer-robustness
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's headline cross-country estimate must be shown to survive specification, sample, country-composition, and inference choices before submission or in an R&R. Builds the robustness suite a dual academic/policy referee expects; it does not establish identification (imfer-identification) or format exhibits (imfer-tables-figures).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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 Suite (imfer-robustness) ## When to trigger - The main estimate is in hand and you must show it is not an artifact of one specification - A referee asks "is this driven by a few countries / a particular crisis episode / the sample window?" - The result depends on a sample-selection rule, a country grouping, or a deflator/exchange-rate convention - You suspect a global common shock or one influential economy is doing the work - You want to pre-empt specification-search and country-cherry-picking concerns ## The IMFER robustness bar IMFER referees probe whether the headline number is **stable, honestly inferred, and not the product of country-composition or specification search** — and, distinctively, whether it would still *guide policy* under reasonable alternatives. Robustness here is a targeted set of checks, each tied to a specific threat to an *international-macro* design, not a wall of regressions. The persuasive object is that the **point estimate barely moves** when you drop the obvious country, switch the window, or change the inference. | Threat to the result | The check that answers it | |----------------------|---------------------------| | One country / reg
- When to trigger
- The IMFER robustness bar
- Inference under cross-country dependence (the common slip)
- Robustness craft
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the robustness fix
- The composition check IMFER referees run first
- Output format
What does the imfer-robustness skill do?
Use when an IMF Economic Review (IMFER) manuscript's headline cross-country estimate must be shown to survive specification, sample, country-composition, and inference choices before submission or in an R&R. Builds the robustness suite a dual academic/policy referee expects; it does not establish identification (imfer-identification) or format exhibits (imfer-tables-figures).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill imfer-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.