A skill your agent uses when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal…

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Install Jleo Identification

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-identification -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jleo-identification --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/Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-identification .claude/skills/jleo-identification && 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
jleo-identification
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.7k tokens
SKILL.md length
693 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal…

  • The identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JLEO identification bar, Design branches and their… and Execution bridge (StatsPAI /…, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms

What it does

Jleo Identification is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms, institutional variation, court/committee/case assignment, governance-form choice). Stress-tests the design to JLEO's institutional bar; it does not build the theory model (jleo-theory-model).

Its SKILL.md is about 1.7k 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 Load testing. 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

  • The identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law
  • Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms
  • Institutional variation
  • Court/committee/case assignment

Example prompts

  • “/jleo-identification”

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

Jleo Identification loads about 1.7k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 100 tokens; SKILL.md has 693 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~100
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.7k

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). 693 words, ~1,686 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jleo-identification/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jleo-identification
description
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms, institutional variation, court/committee/case assignment, governance-form choice). Stress-tests the design to JLEO's institutional bar; it does not build the theory model (jleo-theory-model).

Identification Strategy (jleo-identification)

When to trigger

  • The causal claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered institutional reforms
  • The unit chooses its own governance form (make-or-buy, integration, contract type) and the estimate confounds selection with effect
  • The "treatment" is a court/committee/judge/case assignment whose as-good-as-random status is asserted but not shown
  • A referee asks "what is the source of variation that identifies this institutional effect?"
  • The design borrows institutional variation across countries/states/firms without ruling out the obvious confounds

The JLEO identification bar

JLEO empirics live or die on whether the institutional or organizational variation that does the identifying is credible — because the object of interest is usually itself chosen by the agents (firms pick governance forms; legislatures pick rules; litigants select into courts). The credible-identification standards are the same as any top empirical economics journal, but the threats are institution-specific: endogenous boundaries, endogenous reform timing, selection into contract form, and strategic case selection. Name the variation, defend it, and never let the institutional story substitute for the design.

Design branches and their institution-specific threats

Reforms / institutional change (DID, event study)
  • With staggered adoption move beyond TWFE: Callaway–Sant'Anna, Sun–Abraham, de Chaisemartin–D'Haultfœuille; show clean event-study leads; report a Goodman–Bacon decomposition.
  • The first-order JLEO threat is endogenous reform timing: institutions reform when conditions change. Defend timing exogeneity (or instrument it), and test for anticipation.
Governance-form / make-or-buy choice (the classic TCE empirics)
  • The boundary of the firm is chosen. A raw comparison of integrated vs. arm's-length transactions confounds the governance effect with the selection that produced it.
  • Use within-transaction variation, an IV for the governance choice, a selection model with a defensible exclusion, or matching on asset-specificity/uncertainty proxies — and say which, and why it breaks the selection.
Court / committee / judge / case assignment
  • The cleanest JLEO-style natural experiment: random or rotation-based assignment of cases to judges/panels, or bills to committees.
  • Show the assignment mechanism is actually as-good-as-random (balance on case characteristics); address case settlement/selection that re-introduces endogeneity downstream.
Cross-institutional variation (states, countries, firms)
  • Defend the variation against the obvious omitted institutional confounds; prefer within-jurisdiction-over-time variation or a sharp discontinuity to a cross-section of institutions.
IV / RDD where applicable
  • IV: strong first stage; weak-IV-robust inference (Anderson–Rubin) if weak; defend exclusion in the institutional context. RDD: density test (McCrary / Cattaneo–Jansson–Ma), bandwidth robustness, covariate smoothness, bias-corrected CIs.
  • Cluster inference at the level of the institutional treatment; address few-cluster problems (wild-cluster bootstrap).
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Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Estimate and audit the design, don't only describe it. Full map: execution-with-mcp. JLEO is law-and-economics/organizations; institutional designs with endogeneity — foreground identification.

  • 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 control.
  • Sensitivity: oster_delta / sensemakr for observational claims.

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

Checklist

  • The identifying variation is named in one sentence and tied to the institutional setting
  • Selection into the governance form / institution is explicitly addressed, not assumed away
  • Reform timing exogeneity or assignment-as-random is defended and tested (anticipation, balance)
  • Staggered designs use a modern estimator; event-study leads shown flat
  • Inference clustered at the institutional treatment level; few-cluster issues handled
  • The causal claim never exceeds what the institutional variation supports

Anti-patterns

  • Comparing integrated vs. non-integrated transactions as if governance form were randomly assigned
  • TWFE on staggered institutional reforms with no heterogeneity-bias discussion
  • Asserting judge/case/committee assignment is random without showing balance
  • Cross-country institutional regressions with controls standing in for identification
  • An "institutional story" doing the work the research design should do

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper estimates the effect of vertical integration on hold-up costs using firm transaction data. The naive comparison is biased: firms integrate precisely the transactions most prone to hold-up. A JLEO-credible move uses a shock to asset specificity (e.g., a technology change raising relationship-specific investment for a subset of input categories) as the source of variation, with an event study around the shock and a placebo on unaffected categories. Suppose integrated-transaction disputes fall 18% (s.e. 6, illustrative) post-shock for treated categories only — that pattern, not the cross-section, identifies the governance effect.

Output format

text
【Design】reform-DID / governance-choice / case-assignment / cross-institution / IV / RDD
【Identifying variation】one sentence, tied to the institution
【Selection/endogeneity threat + fix】[...]
【Diagnostics】event-study leads / balance / first-stage / density / placebo
【Inference】clustering level; few-cluster handling
【What it does NOT identify】[...]
【Next skill】jleo-theory-model

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-identification of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jleo Identification

What does Jleo Identification do?

A skill your agent uses when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal…. Jleo Identification is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms, institutional variation, court/committee/case assignment, governance-form choice).

When should I use Jleo Identification?

Jleo Identification fits situations like: the identification argument is the bottleneck for an empirical Journal of Law; organization (JLEO) manuscript — institutional/organizational causal designs (reforms; institutional variation; court/committee/case assignment.

How do I install Jleo Identification in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-identification -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-identification in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jleo-identification in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jleo Identification in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jleo-identification -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Law-Economics-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jleo-identification in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jleo-identification in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jleo Identification 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 jleo-identification -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jleo-identification, .gemini/skills/jleo-identification, .github/skills/jleo-identification and .opencode/skills/jleo-identification in your project.

What does Jleo Identification need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jleo Identification is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jleo Identification 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 Jleo Identification 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 Jleo Identification use?

Jleo Identification 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 Jleo Identification use?

About 1.7k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.7k 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 Jleo Identification?

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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