aeja-identification

aeja-identification is a skill for Claude Code from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. It costs 0 tokens per session (1,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for testing the link between a research design and the causal claim it is meant to support. It covers designs such as randomized trials, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, instrumental variables, and shift-share methods.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define the quantity being estimated, state and test identifying assumptions, and assess design-specific concerns such as weak instruments or staggered timing. It does not replace the underlying data analysis.
Why use it?
It helps reveal unsupported assumptions and mismatches between the available variation, the estimated effect, and the claim being made. It also emphasizes diagnostics and inference suited to the chosen design.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the aej-applied-economics-skills plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to define the quantity being estimated, state and test identifying assumptions, and assess design-specific concerns such as weak instruments or staggered timing. It does not replace the underlying data analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills/aeja-identification
About the project

Awesome Journal Skills is a collection of agent skill packs tailored to hundreds of academic journals across fields including economics, social science, medicine, science, and engineering. Researchers use the packs for tasks such as choosing topics, designing empirical strategies, preparing tables and figures, submitting papers, and responding to reviewers. The catalogue entries are the project's journal-specific skills and related plugins.

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills · 1,259 stars · on GitHub · copaper.ai

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-identification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install aej-applied-economics-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,625 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.01625
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00650
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00162

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 50190cb65ca0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aeja-identification scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills/skills/aeja-identification/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Identification Strategy (aeja-identification)

When to trigger

  • A causal claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered timing
  • An RCT's estimand, balance, or attrition handling is not pinned down
  • An RD's density, bandwidth, or covariate-smoothness defense is missing
  • An IV's first stage is weak or the exclusion restriction is asserted, not argued
  • You are unsure the design clears AEJ: Applied's credibility bar

The AEJ: Applied identification bar

AEJ: Applied is identification-driven applied micro: the mapping from a source of variation to the causal estimand must be explicit, defended, and falsifiable. Editors and referees here are unusually sophisticated about modern design pitfalls — staggered-DID bias, weak IV, RD manipulation, shift-share exogeneity. State the estimand, name the identifying assumption, show the diagnostic that could have failed but didn't, and keep the claim inside what the design supports. Inference must match the design (clustering at the assignment level; few-cluster corrections).

Design paths

Path A: RCT / field experiment (own data)

  • Estimand stated (ITT vs. LATE/TOT); randomization unit and stratification described.
  • Pre-registration (AEA RCT Registry / AsPredicted / OSF); report deviations from the pre-analysis plan.
  • Balance table on baseline covariates; attrition examined and bounded (Lee bounds if differential).
  • Multiple-hypothesis adjustment across outcomes/subgroups; explicit external-validity discussion.

Path B: Difference-in-differences / event study

  • With staggered adoption, move beyond TWFE — Callaway–Sant'Anna, Sun–Abraham, de Chaisemartin–D'Haultfœuille, or Borusyak–Jaravel–Spiess imputation.
  • Clean event-study with leads for pre-trends; report a Goodman-Bacon decomposition to show which 2×2s drive the estimate.
  • State and defend parallel trends; consider Rambachan–Roth honest-DID sensitivity to parallel-trend violations.

Path C: Regression discontinuity

  • Density test (McCrary / Cattaneo–Jansson–Ma) for manipulation; covariate smoothness at the cutoff.
  • Local-linear with data-driven bandwidth; bias-corrected, robust CIs (rdrobust); donut and bandwidth-sensitivity checks.
  • State whether the estimand is the local effect at the cutoff and resist extrapolation.

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 94 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 50190cb65ca0

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aeja-identification is a skill published in the GitHub repository brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills (1,259 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,625 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-15.

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