rfs-identification
Use when the causal-inference or asset-pricing identification strategy is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — quasi-experiments (DID, IV, RDD, event study) and factor-model identification. Stress-tests the design before drafting tables.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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 (rfs-identification) ## When to trigger - The empirical core is OLS + controls with an open endogeneity threat - A DID uses two-way fixed effects (TWFE) without addressing staggered-adoption bias - An IV has a weak first stage or a contestable exclusion restriction - A cross-sectional asset-pricing claim rests on a factor that may be data-mined - Reviewers will ask "what is your source of variation?" and you lack a crisp answer ## The RFS identification bar RFS applies the **same high causal-inference standard as JF and JFE**: a claim of causality requires a credible source of exogenous variation, not a richer control set. RFS is more receptive than the others to *genuinely new questions* and to *structural / theoretical* identification — but novelty never substitutes for a clean design. Pick the strongest feasible strategy below. **RFS-specific lever — Stage 1 design review.** Because RFS pioneered **Registered Reports** (pre-results review; Karolyi, "Kick-Starting the Review Process," RFS 27(2), 2014), an identification strategy can be **refereed before the results exist**. If you pursue this route, the design must be airtight on paper: pre-specified sam
- When to trigger
- The RFS identification bar
- Design priority (corporate / household / empirical finance)
- Branch A — DID
- Branch B — IV
- Branch C — RDD
- Branch D — Asset-pricing identification
- Branch E — Structural / theory-driven
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the rfs-identification skill do?
Use when the causal-inference or asset-pricing identification strategy is the bottleneck for a The Review of Financial Studies (RFS) manuscript — quasi-experiments (DID, IV, RDD, event study) and factor-model identification. Stress-tests the design before drafting tables.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill rfs-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.