causal-design SKILL.md skillA
causal-design from ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow
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- git:20261009.20e3598, committed Oct 9, 2026
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- 25
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Triage a causal question and hand off to the owning method skill. Owns the selection-on-observables branch (overlap, doubly robust estimation, causal forests, policy learning, sensitivity), plain panel fixed effects, and the shared inference rules (clustering, multiplicity, interference routing). TRIGGER on "identification strategy", "which causal method", "research design", "endogeneity", "quasi-experiment", "natural experiment", "selection on observables", "unconfoundedness…
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What the file says
# Causal design triage The router of the family, grounded in a read canon of three sources (references/canon.md): Imbens (2024) supplies the assumption axis (what licenses identification), Li, Luo, and Pattabhiramaiah (2024, hereafter AMA; defined in references/canon.md) the marketing data-shape axis (how many treated units, how many pre-periods, how rich the covariates), and Abadie, Athey, Imbens, and Wooldridge (2023) the clustering rules the family shares. The deliverable is a design recommendation carrying four things: the assumption that licenses it, the estimand it actually identifies WITH its subpopulation named, the handoff to the owning skill, and, for the one branch no method skill owns (selection on observables), estimation code and a methods paragraph. The skill stops at the four stop points in references/shared-rules.md (section "Stop points") and puts each choice to the user. Marketing's framing throughout: randomization is the gold standard, and quasi-experimental work substitutes statistical rigor for design rigor (AMA); a design that fails its gate is a verdict, not an obstacle. Current as of 2026-10-09; refresh per shared-rules (references/shared-rules.md, …
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How to install
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Source
ericluo04/claude-academic-workflow · 25 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
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