jie-data-analysis
Use when building or auditing the empirical analysis for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — constructing bilateral trade panels, estimating PPML gravity, running open-economy panels and local projections, calibrating/estimating structural models, and producing the robustness suite international-economics referees expect. Strengthens the analysis; it does not fabricate results.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-data-analysis --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.
# Data Analysis (jie-data-analysis) ## When to trigger - Assembling a bilateral trade panel or a cross-country macro/finance panel - Choosing the gravity estimator and fixed-effect structure - Deciding which robustness checks an international-economics referee will demand - Disciplining a structural open-economy or trade model against the data ## Empirical norms at JIE JIE referees come from international trade or international macro/finance and apply that field's conventions. Match them. ### Data construction - **Trade**: build bilateral product-level flows from UN Comtrade or the cleaned **BACI** (CEPII); merge gravity covariates from the **CEPII Gravity** database (distance, contiguity, common language, RTAs); tariffs/NTMs from WITS/TRAINS or WTO. Keep **zeros** — they are informative and PPML uses them. - **International macro/finance**: assemble panels from IMF IFS/BOP/DOTS, BIS, the **External Wealth of Nations** (Lane–Milesi-Ferretti), Penn World Table; sovereign-debt/default histories from established crisis datasets. ### Estimation - **Gravity → PPML** (`ppmlhdfe`, `fixest::fepois`) with importer×time, exporter×time, and pair fixed effects; report the trade elasticity. - *
- When to trigger
- Empirical norms at JIE
- Data construction
- Estimation
- Robustness suite (referees will ask)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee-pushback patterns and the JIE-specific fix
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jie-data-analysis skill do?
Use when building or auditing the empirical analysis for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — constructing bilateral trade panels, estimating PPML gravity, running open-economy panels and local projections, calibrating/estimating structural models, and producing the robustness suite international-economics referees expect. Strengthens the analysis; it does not fabricate results.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-data-analysis --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.