restat-identification

npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-identification --agent claude-code

Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.

# Identification & Measurement Strategy (restat-identification) ## When to trigger - A causal claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered timing - An IV's exclusion restriction or first-stage strength is contestable - An RD's continuity / manipulation assumptions are not yet defended - A shift-share / exposure design's exogeneity (shares vs shocks) is unargued - The outcome or key regressor is **measured with error**, or you built a **new measure/index** ## The REStat identification-and-measurement bar REStat is **applied econometrics with a measurement tradition**, so two things are judged together: the **mapping from data to the causal object** must be explicit and defended, **and** the **quality of measurement** behind every variable must be credible. A clean design on a badly measured construct does not clear the bar; neither does a beautifully measured variable in a hopelessly confounded regression. Report **standard errors and modern inference**; clustering at the assignment level; address attenuation and other measurement-error biases head-on — REStat referees raise measurement objections sibling journals sometimes wave through. ## Branch paths ### Branch A: Differen