A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs…

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Install Eursr Research Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills eursr-research-design --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-research-design .claude/skills/eursr-research-design && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
eursr-research-design
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
748 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs…

  • Defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Comparative / cross-national, Panel / longitudinal /… and Causal inference where feasible, plus 10 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Panel/longitudinal and event-history designs

What it does

Eursr Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data. ESR judges whether the design lets the comparison or panel identify the mechanism. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Econometrics and empirical research. The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs
  • Panel/longitudinal and event-history designs
  • Multilevel structures
  • Causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey

Example prompts

  • “/eursr-research-design”

Requirements

  • Python 3

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Eursr Research Design loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 106 tokens; SKILL.md has 748 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~106
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 748 words, ~2,017 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/eursr-research-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
eursr-research-design
description
Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data. ESR judges whether the design lets the comparison or panel identify the mechanism. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

Research Design (eursr-research-design)

ESR is a quantitative journal exacting about whether the comparative or longitudinal design actually identifies the mechanism from eursr-theory-building and rules out the leading confound. The design must connect the cross-level hypothesis to evidence that a single cross-section could not provide.

When to trigger

  • Specifying the comparative frame, the panel structure, sampling, or the identification strategy
  • A reviewer questioned causal claims, generalization, selection, measurement comparability, or a confound
  • Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from eursr-literature-positioning

Comparative / cross-national

  • Justify the country set by design logic (institutional contrast, regime types, most/least-similar), not by data availability alone; say what variation each context contributes.
  • Measurement equivalence is the first reviewer demand: establish that constructs mean the same across countries (configural/metric/scalar invariance for latent scales; harmonized coding for education via ISCED/CASMIN, occupation via ISCO/ISEI/EGP).
  • Macro N is small. With ~20-30 countries, country-level effects rest on few degrees of freedom — design the macro hypothesis so it does not over-claim from a handful of clusters (see eursr-data-analysis).

Panel / longitudinal / event-history

  • State what the panel buys. Within-person change (fixed effects), duration/timing (event history), or growth (latent growth) — match the estimator to the theoretical quantity.
  • Attrition and selection into and out of the panel must be addressed (weights, IPW, sensitivity).
  • For staggered policy exposure, use heterogeneity-robust DiD (Callaway-Sant'Anna, Sun-Abraham, Borusyak et al.), not naive TWFE.

Causal inference where feasible

  • Much of ESR is observational; distinguish description, association, and causation honestly. If causal, state the assumptions (ignorability, parallel trends, exclusion) and defend them; report a sensitivity bound (how strong an unobserved confounder would have to be).

Multilevel / SEM

  • Specify the level structure (individuals in countries/regions/cohorts), the random effects, and why a multilevel model is warranted; for measurement, build the latent model before the structural one.

The adjudication test (ESR-specific)

For the single strongest rival explanation: "If the rival were true rather than my argument, the cross-national (or over-time) pattern would look like ___; instead it looks like ___." If you cannot write it, the comparative/panel design does not yet identify the contribution.

What ESR referees demand of each design

DesignReferee's first demandSatisfying move
Comparative cross-national"Are the measures equivalent?"invariance / harmonized coding; justified country set
Panel / fixed-effects"What does within-person change identify?"match estimator to the quantity; handle attrition
Event history"Right risk set and time scale?"defined onset, censoring, time-varying covariates
Causal (DiD/IV/RDD)"Assumption defended?"state + test the assumption; sensitivity bound
Multilevel / SEM"Enough clusters; measurement first?"macro df honesty; fit the latent model before structure

Worked micro-example (illustrative)

A comparative study argues that vocational specificity smooths the school-to-work transition.

Country set: most-different welfare/training regimes (e.g., dual-system vs. general-education systems),
  chosen for institutional contrast, not convenience
Measurement: education harmonized via ISCED; vocational specificity coded from program-level data
Design: cross-national + cohort variation; cross-level interaction (specificity × individual track)
Disconfirming pattern sought: if signaling (not skills) drove it, the advantage would vanish once firms
  learn quality → instead it persists across the early career, as the specificity argument predicts
Macro-N caution: ~24 countries → country-level claim kept modest; SEs / df handled in data-analysis

The country set is design-driven, the measures are comparable, and the design specifies what pattern would falsify the argument.

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Referee pushback → ESR-specific fix

  • "Measures aren't comparable across countries." → Test invariance; report partial invariance and what it permits; use harmonized coding schemes.
  • "You infer too much from ~20 countries." → Re-state the macro claim modestly; use df-appropriate inference (see eursr-data-analysis).
  • "Association dressed as causation." → Restate what the design identifies; add a sensitivity bound or placebo; drop causal verbs you cannot defend.

Calibration anchors

  • Measurement equivalence is the comparative gate. A cross-national claim built on non-equivalent scales is the most common fatal design flaw at ESR.
  • The adjudication sentence is the test. If you can't write "if the rival were true the pattern would look like ___," the comparison/panel does not yet earn the contribution.
  • Identification honesty travels. Stating plainly what observational European data can and cannot establish reads as strength to a quantitative panel.

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Estimate and audit the design, don't only describe it. Full map: execution-with-mcp. ESR is comparative quantitative sociology; cross-country panels with confounded institutions — foreground fixed effects and clustering.

  • detect_design → recommend → fit with as_handle=true → audit_result.
  • Observational causal claims: staggered DiD (callaway_santanna / sun_abraham + bacon_decomposition + honest_did_from_result); IV (effective_f_test + anderson_rubin_ci); RDD (rdrobust + mccrary_test).
  • Experiments: randomization-based inference, romano_wolf for many-outcome family-wise control, and mediate for mediation (not naive controlling-away).
  • Sensitivity: oster_delta / sensemakr for observational claims.

Report the effect size in interpretable units; route the full battery to the appendix/supplement. A run end-to-end (synthetic data, real returns) is in the JF execution walkthrough.

Anti-patterns

  • A country set chosen by data availability and dressed up as theory-driven
  • Cross-national latent comparisons with no measurement-invariance check
  • Over-claiming country-level effects from a handful of clusters
  • Naive TWFE on staggered policy timing; ignoring panel attrition
  • A design that cannot distinguish your mechanism from the leading alternative

Output format

【Design】comparative / panel / event-history / causal / multilevel-SEM
【What it identifies】description / association / causation
【Comparability / assumption】invariance or key assumption + how defended
【Rival ruled out】the adjudication sentence
【Macro-N / attrition / sensitivity】planned
【Next】eursr-data-analysis

Supplementary resources

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-research-design of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Eursr Research Design

What does Eursr Research Design do?

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs…. Eursr Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs, panel/longitudinal and event-history designs, multilevel structures, and causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey or register data.

When should I use Eursr Research Design?

Eursr Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a European Sociological Review (ESR) manuscript — comparative cross-national designs; panel/longitudinal and event-history designs; multilevel structures; causal inference where feasible on harmonized survey.

How do I install Eursr Research Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/eursr-research-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Eursr Research Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (European-Sociological-Review-Skills/skills/eursr-research-design in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/eursr-research-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Eursr Research Design in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill eursr-research-design -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/eursr-research-design, .gemini/skills/eursr-research-design, .github/skills/eursr-research-design and .opencode/skills/eursr-research-design in your project.

What does Eursr Research Design need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Eursr Research Design is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Eursr Research Design access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Eursr Research Design safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Eursr Research Design use?

Eursr Research Design is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Eursr Research Design use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Eursr Research Design?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

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