jfe-identification
Use when the causal identification or inference design is the bottleneck for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — natural experiments, IV, staggered DID, RDD, and explicit endogeneity/selection treatment. Stress-tests the design before drafting tables; it does not finalize factor construction or estimators (see jfe-empirical-design).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-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 & Endogeneity (jfe-identification) ## When to trigger - The empirical core is OLS + controls with endogeneity hand-waved away - A DID uses two-way fixed effects with staggered adoption and you have not addressed the heterogeneous-treatment-effects bias - Your IV's exclusion restriction or relevance is undefended - Selection into the sample or treatment is plausible and unaddressed - A referee could say "your X is endogenous to your Y" ## The JFE identification bar JFE referees expect endogeneity and selection to be treated explicitly, and they expect every plausible alternative explanation to be ruled out — not waved away. Corporate-finance papers are held to a credible-design standard; asset-pricing papers to a disciplined-inference standard (see `jfe-empirical-design`). This skill covers the corporate-finance causal side; the design/estimator side lives in `jfe-empirical-design`. JFE corporate finance descends from **Jensen & Meckling (1976), "Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure"** — the agency-cost foundation and the journal's single most-cited paper. Modern reviewing keeps that demand for an economic *mechanism* but lay
- When to trigger
- The JFE identification bar
- Design priority (strong -> weaker)
- Branches
- Branch A — DID / natural experiment
- Branch B — IV
- Branch C — RDD
- Branch D — selection / sample construction
- Branch E — structural
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jfe-identification skill do?
Use when the causal identification or inference design is the bottleneck for a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — natural experiments, IV, staggered DID, RDD, and explicit endogeneity/selection treatment. Stress-tests the design before drafting tables; it does not finalize factor construction or estimators (see jfe-empirical-design).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jfe-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.