restud-robustness
Use when the main results of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript exist but referee-anticipating checks — robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, placebo, alternative specifications — are missing or fragile. Hardens the result against demanding referees; does not redesign identification.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-robustness --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.
# REStud Robustness (restud-robustness) ## When to trigger - The main result rests on a single specification - No placebo / falsification evidence exists - A referee will say "the effect is driven by X" and you have no pre-empting check - The result is statistically marginal and sensitivity is undocumented - Heterogeneity or mechanism evidence is absent and the channel is asserted, not shown ## The REStud standard REStud referees are demanding and the journal is known for *developing strong papers across rounds*. A robust REStud result is one that **does not hinge on one fragile specification**. The goal of this stage is to find the weak point before a referee does, and either fix it or report it honestly. Robustness is not a wall of extra tables — it is targeted evidence against the most plausible alternative explanations. Two REStud-specific facts shape how you stage it: (1) bulk robustness belongs in the **online appendix / supplementary file**, with only the decisive checks in the main text; (2) for an *accepted* empirical paper, every robustness number must be reproducible, because the **Data Editor (Miklós Koren) reruns your code before publication** under the AEA DCAS standa
- When to trigger
- The REStud standard
- Priority of checks
- Calibrating effort
- Reporting discipline
- The honest-fragility test
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the restud-robustness skill do?
Use when the main results of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript exist but referee-anticipating checks — robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, placebo, alternative specifications — are missing or fragile. Hardens the result against demanding referees; does not redesign identification.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restud-robustness --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.