jhe-theory-model
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript needs a model — insurance demand/selection, provider behavior under a payment rule, or a health-production/human-capital frame — to interpret estimates or run a counterfactual. Disciplines the conceptual frame; it does not establish identification (jhe-identification) or write prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-theory-model --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.
# Theory and Model Craft (jhe-theory-model) ## When to trigger - A reduced-form health-policy estimate needs a model to be interpreted as welfare, demand, or a structural parameter - An insurance/selection paper needs the demand-and-selection model to map data to risk preferences or adverse selection - A provider paper needs a payment-response model to predict how DRG/P4P/capitation reshapes behavior - A counterfactual (a coverage expansion, a price change, an optimal cost-sharing rule) requires a model to extrapolate beyond the estimated variation ## How JHE uses models At JHE a model rarely stands alone; it **earns the right to interpret an estimate or run a counterfactual**. The bar is that the model be **tight enough to discipline the data and realistic enough to match the institution**. JHE's house demand-and-selection and provider-incentive models are the lingua franca — use them rather than reinventing. The decisive questions: does the model identify the object you claim (an elasticity, a selection parameter, a welfare quantity)? Are its parameters **policy-invariant** for the counterfactual you run (the Lucas critique bites hard for coverage and payment reforms)? Does it re
- When to trigger
- How JHE uses models
- Model archetypes and what each must deliver
- Discipline checks
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee pushback mapped to the model fix
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- How much model does the paper need?
- Output format
- Handoff boundary
What does the jhe-theory-model skill do?
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript needs a model — insurance demand/selection, provider behavior under a payment rule, or a health-production/human-capital frame — to interpret estimates or run a counterfactual. Disciplines the conceptual frame; it does not establish identification (jhe-identification) or write prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-theory-model --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.