revacc-methods
Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (revacc-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-methods --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.
# Research Design & Identification (revacc-methods) ## When to trigger - Your treatment (a disclosure, a standard adoption, an audit/tax regime) may be endogenous - Adoption is staggered across firms/years and you need a defensible DiD - You have an association and a referee will ask "is this causal or just correlation?" - You are designing an experiment to isolate a channel archival data cannot separate - You are building an analytical model and must fix primitives, timing, and the equilibrium concept ## Identification for archival accounting at RAST Accounting treatments — disclosure choices, conservatism, auditor selection, tax positions, standard adoption — are rarely random, so RAST referees expect a **credible identification strategy**, not kitchen-sink controls. Pick the design that breaks the endogeneity for *your* accounting setting. | Identification threat / setting | Design | |---------------------------------|--------| | Regulation / standard adoption with a clean date (e.g., a reporting mandate) | Difference-in-differences; event study around the adoption date | | Staggered adoption across firms/states/countries | Staggered DiD with modern estimators (avoid naive TWFE
- When to trigger
- Identification for archival accounting at RAST
- Measurement design is part of identification
- If the lane is analytical
- If the lane is experimental
- Design hygiene
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the revacc-methods skill do?
Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (revacc-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill revacc-methods --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.