jie-identification-strategy
Use when the identification or modelling strategy is the bottleneck for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — gravity/PPML, trade-policy (tariff/RTA) shocks, shift-share/Bartik exposure, exchange-rate pass-through, or a structural open-economy model whose discipline against data is the "identification." Stress-tests the design to the JIE field bar before tables are drafted.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 / Modelling Strategy (jie-identification-strategy) ## When to trigger - Your gravity regression is log-OLS and a referee will ask about zeros and heteroskedasticity - A trade-policy effect is identified off staggered RTA/tariff timing with plain TWFE - A shift-share (China-shock-style) design lacks a share- or shift-exogeneity argument - An open-economy/structural model's mapping to the data is not disciplined - You are unsure your design clears JIE's field-level credibility bar ## The JIE identification bar JIE judges credibility by the **standards of international economics**, where "identification" can be either a quasi-experimental design **or** the discipline a structural model imposes on the data. Both halves of the field have their own conventions; pick the branch that matches your paper. ## Branch A: Gravity (the workhorse of empirical trade) - Use **PPML** (`ppmlhdfe`, `fixest::fepois`), not log-OLS: it handles **zeros** and the heteroskedasticity that Santos Silva–Tenreyro showed bias log-linear gravity. - Control **multilateral resistance** with importer×time and exporter×time fixed effects; for policy effects add country-pair fixed effects. - Report the
- When to trigger
- The JIE identification bar
- Branch A: Gravity (the workhorse of empirical trade)
- Branch B: Trade-policy shocks (tariffs, RTAs, NTMs)
- Branch C: Shift-share / Bartik exposure (e.g., the China shock)
- Branch D: Exchange rates, pass-through, international pricing
- Branch E: Structural / open-economy macro (model is the identification)
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee-pushback patterns with the venue fix
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jie-identification-strategy skill do?
Use when the identification or modelling strategy is the bottleneck for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — gravity/PPML, trade-policy (tariff/RTA) shocks, shift-share/Bartik exposure, exchange-rate pass-through, or a structural open-economy model whose discipline against data is the "identification." Stress-tests the design to the JIE field bar before tables are drafted.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jie-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 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.