Individual skill
jhe-identification
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript — quasi-experimental health-policy variation, selection into insurance/treatment, eligibility RD, or structural identification of demand/provider parameters. Stress-tests the data-to-estimand mapping to the JHE bar before exhibits are finalized; it does not write prose or build the package.
Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-identification/SKILL.md
Source commit 932eb23331721b16e967c59f093781be1928b498
What was checked
- Matches the observed repository HEAD
- Yes
- Scanner rules are current
- Yes
- Repository scan complete
- No
- Skill scan complete
- No
- Observed behavior
- Network or broad shell
- Last checked
- Nov 9, 2026
These are observations at the recorded commit, not a guarantee of safety. Review the source before running it.
Install this skill
Choose an agent in your Stack or copy a command below. Commands fetch the pinned commit and copy only this skill directory. Existing destinations are refused. Copying a command does not install anything.
An install command is unavailable: current rules, complete repository and skill scans, an eligible behavior level and a permitted license are required.
Repository context
- Repository stars (not skill ratings)
- 1,405
- Repository last updated
- Sep 27, 2026
- License
- MIT
Observed agent integration: No specific integration evidence. Standard SKILL.md installation does not imply verified compatibility.
- academic-writing Repository topic
- agent-skills Repository topic
- journal Repository topic
- academic-research Repository topic
- ai-agents Repository topic
- anthropic Repository topic
- awesome-list Repository topic
- claude Repository topic
- claude-code Repository topic
- economics Repository topic
- data Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Read excerpt
# Identification Strategy (jhe-identification)
## When to trigger
- A causal health-policy claim rests on OLS + controls or TWFE on staggered state adoptions
- An insurance/treatment effect is contaminated by selection that is not modeled
- An eligibility cutoff (income, age-65 Medicare, kink in subsidy schedule) is used without an RD defense
- A structural insurance-demand or provider-response parameter is estimated but it is unclear what identifies it
- You are unsure the design clears JHE's credible-causal-plus-institutional bar
## The JHE identification bar
JHE referees demand **credible causal identification *and* institutional realism**: the mapping from a source of variation to the health-economics estimand must be explicit, falsifiable, and consistent with how the program or market actually works. Two failure modes get punished hardest here: (1) ignoring **selection** — into insurance, into treatment, into the sample — that the health setting makes first-order; and (2) treating a **policy variation as exogenous** when institutional detail (phase-ins, waivers, simultaneous reforms, anticipation) says it is not. State the estimand, name the assumption, show the diagnostic that could have failed, and keep the claim inside what the design supports. Inference clusters at the policy/assignment level (usually state).
