Browse reusable Agent Skills, each with a clear purpose and practical guidance.
Use when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J. Econometrics / a field journal, and sharpening the question to REStat's empirical-and-measurement bar. Decides venue fit and frames the question; it does not run the analysis.
Use when selecting, implementing, or stress-testing the causal identification strategy for an empirical The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript — DID (incl. staggered), IV (incl. weak-IV-robust inference), RDD, synthetic control, shift-share, or RCT. Apply before writing results; for theory papers route to restud-theory-model.
Use when the main results of a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript exist but referee-anticipating checks — robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, placebo, alternative specifications — are missing or fragile. Hardens the result against demanding referees; does not redesign identification.
Use when evaluating whether a research idea clears the REStud top-5 bar, or when sharpening a fuzzy idea into one clean original contribution for a The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) manuscript. Diagnoses fit and contribution; does not draft prose or design empirics.
Use when running and reporting the empirical analysis for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — standard-error clustering, executing the identification, validating accounting constructs, and the robustness battery referees expect, plus the data provenance trail. Executes and reports; it does not choose the identification strategy (revacc-methods) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).
Use when research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — choosing the setting, shock, and design that credibly identify an accounting effect, or fixing the primitives and solution concept of an analytical model. Designs the study; it does not run the estimation and robustness (revacc-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (revacc-contribution-framing).
Use when calibrating expectations for the Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) review cycle — its fast, first-round-decision culture, double-blind process, the RAST Conference path, and when to consider a sibling venue. Sets expectations and strategy; it does not run the submission preflight (revacc-submission) or draft the response letter (revacc-rebuttal).
Use when scoping or pressure-testing the research question for a Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) manuscript — confirming it is a contribution-driven financial-accounting question that fits RAST's archival/analytical/experimental lanes. Locks the question; it does not build the model (revacc-theory-development) or design identification (revacc-methods).
Use when testing exhaustiveness, risk-of-bias, heterogeneity, and sensitivity for a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Hardens the synthesis against omission and fragility; it does not build the conceptual spine (revedres-organizing-framework) or settle coding reliability and open materials (revedres-transparency-and-reproducibility).
Use when executing the systematic search, screening to a PRISMA flow, and extracting data for a Review of Educational Research (RER) review or meta-analysis. Builds the documented evidence corpus; it does not impose the conceptual spine (revedres-organizing-framework) or run robustness/risk-of-bias appraisal (revedres-comprehensiveness-and-balance).