jleo-identification
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms, institutional variation, court/committee/case assignment, governance-form choice). Stress-tests the design to JLEO's institutional bar; it does not build the theory model (jleo-theory-model).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-identification --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 (jleo-identification) ## When to trigger - The causal claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered institutional reforms - The unit chooses its own governance form (make-or-buy, integration, contract type) and the estimate confounds selection with effect - The "treatment" is a court/committee/judge/case assignment whose as-good-as-random status is asserted but not shown - A referee asks "what is the source of variation that identifies this institutional effect?" - The design borrows institutional variation across countries/states/firms without ruling out the obvious confounds ## The JLEO identification bar JLEO empirics live or die on whether the **institutional or organizational variation** that does the identifying is credible — because the object of interest is usually itself chosen by the agents (firms pick governance forms; legislatures pick rules; litigants select into courts). The credible-identification standards are the same as any top empirical economics journal, but the *threats* are institution-specific: endogenous boundaries, endogenous reform timing, selection into contract form, and strategic case selection. Name the variation, defend
- When to trigger
- The JLEO identification bar
- Design branches and their institution-specific threats
- Reforms / institutional change (DID, event study)
- Governance-form / make-or-buy choice (the classic TCE empirics)
- Court / committee / judge / case assignment
- Cross-institutional variation (states, countries, firms)
- IV / RDD where applicable
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the jleo-identification skill do?
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms, institutional variation, court/committee/case assignment, governance-form choice). Stress-tests the design to JLEO's institutional bar; it does not build the theory model (jleo-theory-model).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-identification --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.