jebo-identification
Use when the design that isolates a behavioral mechanism is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) manuscript — lab/field experiment, observational causal design, or simulation. Stress-tests experimental and observational identification to JEBO's behavioral-credibility bar; it does not write prose or build the deposit.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-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.
# Identification Strategy (jebo-identification) ## When to trigger - A lab/field experiment's treatment, incentives, or comprehension are not pinned down - An effect could be an **experimenter-demand effect** rather than the claimed behavioral mechanism - An observational behavioral claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered timing - A study uses deception, or runs many treatments, and the inference/ethics implications are unaddressed - You are unsure the design isolates the *behavioral* mechanism, not a confound ## The JEBO identification bar JEBO judges identification through a **behavioral-mechanism** lens: the design must isolate the *psychological or institutional channel* the paper claims, not merely produce a significant difference. Because JEBO treats **experimental design as a first-class identification branch** alongside observational causal designs, "identification" means different things by branch — pick the branch and make the channel transparent. Inference must match the design (clustering at the level of randomization or assignment; few-cluster corrections). ### Branch A: Lab / online experiment (the JEBO core) - **Incentive compatibility:** payoffs must mak
- When to trigger
- The JEBO identification bar
- Branch A: Lab / online experiment (the JEBO core)
- Branch B: Field experiment
- Branch C: Observational behavioral empirics
- Branch D: Agent-based / simulation
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jebo-identification skill do?
Use when the design that isolates a behavioral mechanism is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) manuscript — lab/field experiment, observational causal design, or simulation. Stress-tests experimental and observational identification to JEBO's behavioral-credibility bar; it does not write prose or build the deposit.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-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.