Skill UI

This comprehensive skill guides researchers through the rigorous evaluation required for Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) submissions. It helps determine if a project offers a substantive contribution to opinion theory, current public opinion analysis, or survey methodology/validity, ensuring the work moves beyond generic findings. Use it to pressure-test your research scope and contribution framing before drafting.

Provides rigorous statistical guidance for conducting meta-analyses in academic settings. This skill covers the calculation of standardized effect sizes (e.g., Hedges' g, log odds ratio), selecting appropriate models (defaulting to random-effects or multilevel models), and accurately quantifying between-study heterogeneity (Q, I², τ², and prediction intervals). It ensures the analysis meets state-of-the-art standards for high-impact psychological journals.

A comprehensive skill for advanced meta-analysis in psychology, designed to assess the reliability and sources of heterogeneity. It performs moderator/subgroup analyses (meta-regression) to explain effect size variation and runs multiple publication-bias diagnostics (e.g., Funnel plot, Egger's test, p-curve, selection models). Essential for rigorous academic reporting requiring robust evidence and sensitivity checks.

This skill guides the creation of standard, high-quality exhibits for meta-analysis manuscripts, specifically adhering to APA 7th edition standards required by journals like Psychological Bulletin. It generates critical figures such as PRISMA flow diagrams, forest plots, funnel plots, and summary tables, ensuring the final report is self-contained, reproducible, and scientifically rigorous.

This skill guides researchers on whether a proposed research topic is suitable for a high-level synthesis journal (like Psychological Bulletin). It assesses the existing literature's depth, general academic significance, and whether the contribution is synthesizing prior findings. It determines the most appropriate synthesis methodology—such as meta-analysis, systematic review, or qualitative meta-synthesis—by comparing the nature of the pooled data.

A comprehensive guide for executing and reporting quantitative analyses for high-stakes public policy research. This skill emphasizes methodological rigor, demanding transparency in uncertainty reporting (effect size, intervals), robust checks (heterogeneity, alternative specifications), and ensuring full reproducibility through master scripts and pinned versions for journal submission.

A comprehensive guide to ensuring the quantitative rigor and full reproducibility of econometrics manuscripts, particularly for submissions to high-tier journals like QE. Covers structural estimation (GMM, MSM), moment construction, data cleaning best practices, and comprehensive validation checks (e.g., multi-start, Monte Carlo recovery). It ensures that all results can be regenerated from raw data using pinned environments and documented scripts.

This guide helps authors polish the prose, abstract, and introduction of quantitative economics manuscripts for a general-interest Econometric Society readership. It emphasizes structuring the paper to clearly present both a substantive economic question and a quantitative method. It adheres to QE house rules, requiring findings to be communicated through point estimates with standard errors and confidence sets, rather than relying on statistical asterisks.

Mandatory package structure for submitting accepted empirical papers to the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE). It ensures complete research reproducibility by organizing raw data, derived files, and analysis code. This package guides authors in creating a comprehensive, self-contained deposit that allows any investigator to regenerate every figure, table, and result published in the manuscript, adhering to strict academic data-availability policies.

This guide helps researchers precisely define the marginal contribution (the 'delta') of their academic work. Instead of writing a general literature tour, it instructs authors to compare their findings directly against 3-5 most proximate prior papers, emphasizing specific advancements in identification or measurement. It is crucial for submissions to high-stakes journals.

This guide outlines the comprehensive policy and architecture required for submitting a fully reproducible replication package to The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat). It details how to structure the repository, including data, master scripts, and the README file, ensuring that every result can be traced and regenerated by other researchers.

This comprehensive guide outlines the rigorous standards for creating publication-grade tables and figures for top-tier academic journals, such as The Review of Economic Studies. It emphasizes the principles of elegance, economy, and self-containment. Authors must ensure that every exhibit carries one single, clear result, presents interpretable magnitudes (not just stars), and is generated programmatically from code to guarantee reproducibility and consistency.