jhr-identification-strategy
Use when stress-testing causal identification for a Journal of Human Resources empirical-micro manuscript, including RCT, DID, RDD, IV, event studies, decompositions, policy shocks, and reconciliation with prior estimates.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-identification-strategy --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 (jhr-identification-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper makes a causal claim - Referees could say selection, omitted variables, or policy timing drives the result - You need a reconciliation and sensitivity plan before submission ## Design checks - **RCT**: attrition, balance, compliance, spillovers, pre-analysis plan, multiple testing, cluster level. - **DID / event study**: timing, controls, pre-trends, treatment heterogeneity, anticipation, modern estimators where needed. - **RDD**: manipulation, bandwidth, polynomial order, covariate continuity, donut/alternative bandwidths. - **IV**: first stage, exclusion, monotonicity, weak-IV inference, LATE population. - **Decomposition/descriptive**: what is descriptive, what is causal, and what policy lesson follows. ## JHR-specific layer - Re-estimate or benchmark against close prior work when results differ. - Report sensitivity tests that explain which sample/specification choices matter. - Keep the public-policy interpretation tied to identified variation. ## Public-policy validity check For every causal claim, write the policy interpretation in LATE/ATT/descriptive terms: - **Who** is affected: treated
- When to trigger
- Design checks
- JHR-specific layer
- Public-policy validity check
- Reviewer threat matrix
- What JHR referees probe first, by design
- Worked cutoff walkthrough
- Failure modes that end JHR reviews early
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Output format
What does the jhr-identification-strategy skill do?
Use when stress-testing causal identification for a Journal of Human Resources empirical-micro manuscript, including RCT, DID, RDD, IV, event studies, decompositions, policy shocks, and reconciliation with prior estimates.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-identification-strategy --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 984 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.