A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on…

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Install Pubar Research Design

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills pubar-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/Public-Administration-Review-Skills/skills/pubar-research-design .claude/skills/pubar-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
pubar-research-design
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
891 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 Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on…

  • Defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, PAR design-fit gate, Quantitative / causal… and Experiments on bureaucrats and…, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens

What it does

Pubar Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens, RD, IV), case comparison and process tracing, and mixed methods. PAR judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k 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 Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms
  • Survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens
  • Case comparison and process tracing

Example prompts

  • “/pubar-research-design”

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

Pubar Research Design loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 94 tokens; SKILL.md has 891 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~94
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

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). 891 words, ~2,173 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pubar-research-design/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
pubar-research-design
description
Use when defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens, RD, IV), case comparison and process tracing, and mixed methods. PAR judges each tradition on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

Research Design (pubar-research-design)

PAR accepts many methodologies but is demanding about each. The design must credibly connect the argument (pubar-theory-building) to evidence drawn from public organizations, bureaucrats, citizens, or jurisdictions. This skill is mode-aware: pick the section that matches your work and defend it against the strongest alternative explanation.

When to trigger

  • Specifying identification, case selection, or experimental design
  • A reviewer questioned causal claims, case choice, external validity, or a confound
  • Preparing a pre-analysis plan or a pre-registration (PAR offers pre-registration badges)
  • Justifying why your design adjudicates the rival account from pubar-literature-positioning

PAR design-fit gate

PAR is a generalist flagship, so the design must support both an academic claim and a usable public- management implication. Start with this gate before polishing methods language.

Claim typeDesign burdenPractice-relevance check
Reform or mandate effectAssignment/timing logic, counterfactual trend, spillover check, and clustering at assignment levelThe finding changes how agencies time, target, or evaluate reforms
Managerial behaviorSample frame tied to real public managers or frontline staff, realistic decision task, and measured behavioral outcomeThe recommendation is feasible inside public organizations
Citizen response / public trustTreatment realism, representativeness limits, manipulation checks, and ethical framingThe takeaway does not overgeneralize from survey preference to administrative behavior
Case/process accountCase-selection logic, process-tracing tests, chronology, and rival-account evidenceThe lesson transfers to a defined class of agencies, programs, or jurisdictions
Mixed-method mechanismQuantitative association/effect plus qualitative implementation or mechanism evidenceThe qualitative strand explains what managers can act on, not just why results are interesting

Quantitative / causal inference (public-management settings)

  • Identification first. State the estimand and the assumptions that license a causal reading (ignorability, parallel trends, exclusion, continuity). Defend them, don't assert them.
  • Designs common in PA: DiD/event study around a reform or mandate (use modern staggered-adoption estimators — Callaway–Sant'Anna, Sun–Abraham, BJS — not naive TWFE); IV (first-stage strength, exclusion, weak-IV-robust inference); RD around eligibility/funding thresholds; matching/weighting with balance + sensitivity.
  • Inference: cluster at the level of treatment assignment (often agency, district, or jurisdiction); wild-cluster bootstrap when clusters are few (a recurring PA problem with state- or agency-level treatments).
  • Sensitivity: how strong must an unobserved confounder be to overturn the result (Oster / E-value)?

Experiments on bureaucrats and citizens

  • Preregister the design and primary analyses; report power/MDE; pre-specify subgroups.
  • Bureaucrat/managerial experiments: realism of the decision task, sample frame (which public managers), and generalization to real administrative behavior.
  • Citizen survey/conjoint experiments: treatment realism, attention/manipulation checks, attrition, and ethics/IRB and consent.

Qualitative / case-based & mixed methods

  • Case selection justified by design logic (typical, deviant, most/least-likely, paired comparison) — not convenience. Say what the case is a case of (a reform, a governance form).
  • Process tracing with explicit tests (hoop, smoking-gun, straw-in-the-wind); state what evidence would have disconfirmed the argument.
  • Mixed methods: say what the qualitative strand adds that the quantitative cannot (mechanism, context, implementation), and where the two corroborate or diverge.

The adjudication test (PAR-specific)

For the single strongest rival explanation, write one sentence: "If the rival were true rather than my argument, the agencies/managers/citizens would look like ___; instead they look like ___." If you cannot, the design does not yet identify the contribution — and the practitioner takeaway is unsafe.

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Practice-safe inference rules

  • Separate evidence from recommendation. A credible association may justify a diagnostic warning; a causal design may justify a stronger managerial recommendation; neither automatically justifies a universal policy prescription.
  • Name the implementation margin. If the intervention is staffing, training, targeting, rule design, citizen communication, or interagency coordination, say which margin the design actually tests.
  • Check administrative feasibility. A design can be internally valid but still imply an action no manager can implement. Flag cost, authority, data availability, and equity constraints.
  • Bound external validity. Identify the agency type, policy domain, country/state/local context, and population to which the evidence should and should not travel.
  • Route transparency early. If the result relies on confidential administrative data, plan the restricted-data path with pubar-transparency-and-data before claims harden.

Reviewer stress tests

  • Would the result survive if the strongest agency-level selection story were true?
  • Is the treatment/exposure measured before the outcome and at the right organizational level?
  • Are standard errors clustered at the assignment or sampling level, not merely the observation level?
  • For qualitative work, what observation would have disconfirmed the mechanism?
  • For mixed methods, do both strands answer the same claim, or are they two parallel papers?
  • Can the Evidence for Practice box be written without making a claim the design cannot support?

Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)

Estimate and audit the design, don't only describe it. Full map: execution-with-mcp. PAR is public administration — survey/observational and some experimental work; identification + clustered/multilevel inference, magnitude for practice.

  • 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.

Anti-patterns

  • Naive TWFE on a staggered reform rollout; clustering below the assignment level
  • "Causal" language (and a managerial recommendation) on a design that only supports association
  • Convenience case selection dressed up as theory-driven
  • Bureaucrat/citizen experiments over-generalized to real administrative behavior with no caveat
  • A design that cannot distinguish your argument from the leading alternative

Output format

【Mode】quant-causal / experiment / qualitative / mixed
【Estimand or claim】what is being identified/shown
【Design-fit gate】academic claim + practice relevance supported? [Y/N]
【Key assumption(s)】and how each is defended
【Rival ruled out】the adjudication sentence
【Robustness/sensitivity】planned checks (clustering, few-cluster, Oster/E-value)
【Practice-safe inference】recommendation strength + implementation margin + external-validity boundary
【Transparency handoff】public / restricted / qualitative-controlled-access path
【Next】pubar-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 Public-Administration-Review-Skills/skills/pubar-research-design of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Pubar Research Design

What does Pubar Research Design do?

A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on…. Pubar Research Design is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms, survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens, RD, IV), case comparison and process tracing, and mixed methods.

When should I use Pubar Research Design?

Pubar Research Design fits situations like: defending the research design of a Public Administration Review (PAR) manuscript — public-management causal designs (DiD around reforms; survey & field experiments on bureaucrats/citizens; case comparison and process tracing.

How do I install Pubar Research Design in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Pubar Research Design in Codex?

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

Can I use Pubar 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 pubar-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/pubar-research-design, .gemini/skills/pubar-research-design, .github/skills/pubar-research-design and .opencode/skills/pubar-research-design in your project.

What does Pubar Research Design need to run?

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

Does Pubar 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 Pubar 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 Pubar Research Design use?

Pubar 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 Pubar Research Design use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.7k 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 Pubar 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.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.