jhe-robustness
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) result must be shown stable to specification, sample, inference, and mechanism threats before submission or in response to referees. Organizes robustness by identifying threat; it does not establish the design (jhe-identification) or build exhibits.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-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 Strategy (jhe-robustness) ## When to trigger - The headline estimate may be sensitive to specification, sample window, or functional form - Inference is suspect: few clusters (states), serial correlation, or multiple outcomes/subgroups - A referee will ask whether the result is a coverage/take-up artifact rather than the claimed effect - The mechanism story is asserted but not separated from competing explanations ## Robustness the JHE way: organize by threat, not by appendix A wall of starred alternative specifications persuades no one. JHE referees want each robustness check **mapped to a specific threat to the health-economics claim**, with the point estimate's *stability* — not its significance — as the object. Build the robustness section as a threat-response ledger: name the threat a health economist would raise, run the check that addresses it, and report whether the magnitude moves. The threats that recur at JHE are selection, concurrent policy, measurement of health/utilization, and inference with few policy clusters. ## Threat-to-check ledger | Threat to the claim | Check that addresses it | |---------------------|-------------------------| | Residual selecti
- When to trigger
- Robustness the JHE way: organize by threat, not by appendix
- Threat-to-check ledger
- Sequencing
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- The skewed-spending decision, made explicitly
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
- Handoff boundary
What does the jhe-robustness skill do?
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) result must be shown stable to specification, sample, inference, and mechanism threats before submission or in response to referees. Organizes robustness by identifying threat; it does not establish the design (jhe-identification) or build exhibits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-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.