tar-methods
Use when the research design and identification strategy are the bottleneck for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or structuring an analytical model or experiment. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (tar-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (tar-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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 (tar-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 reviewer 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 need to fix primitives and solution concept ## TAR is method-agnostic but identification-obsessed TAR's stated policy is open to all rigorous methods; the bar is the contribution. In the dominant **large-sample archival** lane, "rigorous" almost always means a **credible identification strategy**, because accounting treatments (disclosure choices, conservatism, auditor selection, tax positions) are rarely randomly assigned. Pick the design that breaks the endogeneity for *your* accounting setting. ## Identification toolkit for archival accounting | Identification threat / setting | Design | |----------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | Regulation / standard adopt
- When to trigger
- TAR is method-agnostic but identification-obsessed
- Identification toolkit for archival accounting
- If the lane is experimental
- If the lane is analytical
- Design hygiene
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the tar-methods skill do?
Use when the research design and identification strategy are the bottleneck for a The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or structuring an analytical model or experiment. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (tar-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (tar-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill tar-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.