Agent skill

Jfe Empirical Design

by franklee16 in franklee16/academic-research-skills

A skill your agent uses when settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction, portfolio sorts, Fama-MacBeth/GMM…

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Install Jfe Empirical Design

skills CLI
$ npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill jfe-empirical-design -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install franklee16/academic-research-skills jfe-empirical-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/franklee16/academic-research-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Financial-Economics-Skills/skills/jfe-empirical-design .claude/skills/jfe-empirical-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
jfe-empirical-design
GitHub stars
223
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~1.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
543 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,617
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
None found

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction, portfolio sorts, Fama-MacBeth/GMM…

  • Settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JFE design bar, Asset pricing and Corporate finance, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Portfolio sorts

What it does

Jfe Empirical Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction, portfolio sorts, Fama-MacBeth/GMM, standard-error clustering, and multiple-testing discipline. Covers the design/estimator layer; for causal identification of corporate-finance effects use jfe-identification.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Comprehensive collection of Claude Code skills for academic research in economics, finance, and social sciences.

When your agent uses it

  • Settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction
  • Portfolio sorts
  • Fama-MacBeth/GMM
  • Standard-error clustering

Example prompts

  • “/jfe-empirical-design”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9a4b2db. 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

Jfe Empirical Design loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 543 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~91
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.2k

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

Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 543 words (~1,231 tokens).

“JFE is known for nuts-and-bolts methodological rigor. Referees scrutinize measurement, estimator choice, standard errors, and inference discipline line by line. The goal is a design that a skeptical expert cannot dismantle on technical grounds. This is the journal that published…”

— opening of SKILL.md by franklee16
name
jfe-empirical-design

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Financial-Economics-Skills/skills/jfe-empirical-design of franklee16/academic-research-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9a4b2db

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Jfe Empirical Design

What does Jfe Empirical Design do?

A skill your agent uses when settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction, portfolio sorts, Fama-MacBeth/GMM…. Jfe Empirical Design is an agent skill from franklee16/academic-research-skills. Use when settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction, portfolio sorts, Fama-MacBeth/GMM, standard-error clustering, and multiple-testing discipline.

When should I use Jfe Empirical Design?

Jfe Empirical Design fits situations like: settling the measurement and estimation choices of a Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) manuscript — factor construction; portfolio sorts; fama-MacBeth/GMM; standard-error clustering.

How do I install Jfe Empirical Design in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill jfe-empirical-design -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Financial-Economics-Skills/skills/jfe-empirical-design in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .claude/skills/jfe-empirical-design in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jfe Empirical Design in Codex?

Run `npx skills add franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill jfe-empirical-design -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Awesome-Journal-Skills-main/Journal-of-Financial-Economics-Skills/skills/jfe-empirical-design in franklee16/academic-research-skills) into .agents/skills/jfe-empirical-design in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jfe Empirical 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 franklee16/academic-research-skills --skill jfe-empirical-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/jfe-empirical-design, .gemini/skills/jfe-empirical-design, .github/skills/jfe-empirical-design and .opencode/skills/jfe-empirical-design in your project.

What does Jfe Empirical Design need to run?

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

Does Jfe Empirical 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 Jfe Empirical 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 Jfe Empirical Design use?

No licence was found for Jfe Empirical Design or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.

How many tokens does Jfe Empirical Design use?

About 1.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Jfe Empirical Design?

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Who maintains Jfe Empirical Design?

franklee16 (a GitHub user) maintains it in franklee16/academic-research-skills, which has 223 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,617 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 18, 2026.

Source: franklee16/academic-research-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.