Individual skill
jie-identification-strategy
Use when the identification or modelling strategy is the bottleneck for a Journal of International Economics (JIE) manuscript — gravity/PPML, trade-policy (tariff/RTA) shocks, shift-share/Bartik exposure, exchange-rate pass-through, or a structural open-economy model whose discipline against data is the "identification." Stress-tests the design to the JIE field bar before tables are drafted.
Journal-of-International-Economics-Skills/skills/jie-identification-strategy/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
- Yes
- 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
- design Derived category
- data Derived category
Files and excerpt
File metadata and permitted, redacted excerpts come from the recorded scan. Source links are pinned to that commit.
Browse files
SKILL.mdcore · 7,032 bytes
Read excerpt
# Identification / Modelling Strategy (jie-identification-strategy)
## When to trigger
- Your gravity regression is log-OLS and a referee will ask about zeros and heteroskedasticity
- A trade-policy effect is identified off staggered RTA/tariff timing with plain TWFE
- A shift-share (China-shock-style) design lacks a share- or shift-exogeneity argument
- An open-economy/structural model's mapping to the data is not disciplined
- You are unsure your design clears JIE's field-level credibility bar
## The JIE identification bar
JIE judges credibility by the **standards of international economics**, where "identification" can be either a quasi-experimental design **or** the discipline a structural model imposes on the data. Both halves of the field have their own conventions; pick the branch that matches your paper.
