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Generate a Chinese master's thesis review from the full thesis and a user-provided score. Produce an academic evaluation plus specific shortcomings and revision suggestions, with tone and criticism adjusted to the supplied score.

  • Drafting a Chinese master's thesis review
  • Matching review wording to an assigned score
  • Turning thesis-specific issues into revision suggestions
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Choose methods for causal research in applied microeconomics by examining how treatment varies. Compare assumptions, plan diagnostic checks, assess statistical power—the ability to detect effects—and organize a defensible empirical strategy.

  • Choose a causal method for the available data and setting
  • Check assumptions and diagnostics for an empirical strategy
  • Plan sample size and the smallest detectable effect
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Find NBER working papers, research papers shared before formal publication, by keyword or research program. Retrieve recent papers, authors, dates, and citation details, and access US business cycle dates and links to economic datasets.

  • Find economics papers by topic
  • Check this week's new working papers
  • Retrieve authors, DOI, and PDF links
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Create a literature review from a topic, journals, and publication period. Multiple agents search academic databases, collect available PDFs and citation records, organize findings by theme, and draft, review, revise, and compile a LaTeX document.

  • Review research on a topic across several journals
  • Organize recent papers by shared themes
  • Collect open-access PDFs and BibTeX references
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Screen search results by scoring paper abstracts, then examine promising papers for specific measurements, methods, or datasets. Record findings and review history so you can identify useful evidence and avoid checking the same papers again.

  • Screening literature search results for specific data
  • Extracting experimental methods and measurements
  • Finding datasets and code mentioned in papers
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

paper-submission

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Evaluate a paper’s novelty through related literature searches, match it to suitable fields and ABS journal rating levels, and recommend 20 submission targets. Produce a PDF report with journal details, selection reasons, and submission advice.

  • Comparing a paper’s novelty with related literature
  • Choosing suitable journal fields and ABS rating levels
  • Comparing 20 submission targets and backup journals
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

grillme

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Clarify a research idea through guided questions, explore three unexpected angles, and develop a focused research question with testable variables and a theoretical explanation. The researcher chooses the direction and confirms the final topic.

  • Narrowing a broad research interest
  • Turning an initial idea into a research question
  • Examining a topic's originality
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

latex-table

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Formats regression results as LaTeX tables for economics papers, with standard errors, significance stars, fixed-effect labels, and statistical notes. Provides templates and guidance for converting Stata, Python, or R output into main-text and appendix tables.

  • Converting Stata, Python, or R results into LaTeX tables
  • Comparing baseline and fixed-effects regression models
  • Preparing tables for instrumental-variable estimates
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

arxiv

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Find arXiv papers by topic, author, category, or ID and retrieve abstracts and publication details. Create BibTeX citation entries, then use Semantic Scholar to explore citation counts, references, related papers, and author profiles.

  • Find recent papers on a research topic
  • Look up papers by author or arXiv ID
  • Explore citations and related research
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

lit-review

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Analyze academic papers by organizing research questions, data, methods, findings, and limitations. Compare studies in a table, identify unanswered questions, and document how each paper relates to a research project, with BibTeX reference entries.

  • Summarizing a paper's methods and findings
  • Comparing related studies in a table
  • Identifying unanswered research questions
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

China-CF-Study

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Turn a research proposal on Chinese corporate finance into a structured empirical project. The workflow recommends target journals, guides Python data preparation and statistical analysis, and produces code, LaTeX tables, and figures while recording changes to the analysis plan.

  • Plan empirical research using Chinese firm or city data
  • Compare target journals for a research proposal
  • Run policy effect and robustness analyses in Python
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

robustness

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Plan robustness checks for finance and economics papers to assess whether findings hold under different samples, variable definitions, and modeling choices. Get method-specific checklists, test priorities, and a template for presenting results.

  • Reviewing robustness checks before submitting a paper
  • Choosing checks for difference-in-differences analysis
  • Planning tests for instrumental variable estimates
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Check an academic paper’s tables, numerical claims, and modeling choices against R scripts and outputs. Produce discrepancy reports, a record linking claims to code, and automated tests that rerun the analysis.

  • Checking table values against R outputs
  • Tracing numerical claims to supporting results
  • Reviewing sample sizes and model specifications
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Analyze interviews, focus groups, and open-ended survey responses using Braun and Clarke's six-phase framework. Label meaningful passages, develop and review themes, and produce an academic Word report with an annotated map showing theme relationships.

  • Identifying themes across interview transcripts
  • Analyzing open-ended survey responses
  • Choosing an approach before coding qualitative data
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

journal-digest

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Collect recent papers from leading economics, finance, and accounting journals, then select those relevant to corporate finance. Produces a Chinese research digest and topic suggestions with proposed data and methods, while tracking papers to avoid repeats.

  • Following new corporate finance research
  • Creating a weekly Chinese literature digest
  • Developing research topics from recent papers
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

macro-briefing

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Compile a macroeconomic briefing for the UK, US, euro area, or Australia using official data. Summarize key indicators with green, amber, or red assessments, source citations, and publication dates, with options for selected topics and output formats.

  • Prepare economic background for a meeting
  • Monitor inflation or labour market developments
  • Compare economic indicators across countries
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Develop empirical corporate finance research topics from journal articles, SSRN working papers, and university seminars. Generate candidate titles, build proposals, and check originality, saving full proposal and novelty reports only for ideas scoring at least nine out of ten.

  • Exploring empirical corporate finance topics
  • Finding gaps in published and ongoing research
  • Generating and screening multiple research proposals
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Econfin-Proposal

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Turn a financial economics research idea into a structured, 12-part empirical proposal. It outlines hypotheses, matching data sources, methods for testing causal effects, illustrative results tables, and robustness checks, while examining the study’s contribution.

  • Drafting a financial economics research proposal
  • Finding Chinese and international data sources
  • Planning tests of causal effects
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

openalex

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Search academic papers, researchers, institutions, and journals through the OpenAlex CLI. Explore citations and related work, examine publication trends, export reference records, and download available open access PDFs, which are freely accessible papers.

  • Finding papers on a research topic
  • Exploring a researcher's publications
  • Tracing citations and related papers
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

econ-reviewer

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Review empirical economics papers using criteria modeled on leading journals. Examine causal reasoning, theoretical explanations, regression tables, figures, robustness, and contributions to prior research, then organize potential flaws by severity with concrete suggestions for revision.

  • Checking an empirical economics paper before submission
  • Independently reviewing a paper written with an agent
  • Preparing to respond to reviewer comments
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

did-reviewer

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Review difference-in-differences analyses, which compare changes across treated and comparison groups. It checks pre-policy trends, event-study charts, assumption violations, placebo tests, and robustness, then organizes findings and suggested revisions into a structured report.

  • Planning checks before a DID analysis
  • Reviewing a DID paper
  • Checking your own empirical results
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Check citations in papers and literature notes against specific pages in original PDFs. Distinguish exact quotations from paraphrases, flag unverified references, and produce a structured report showing evidence locations and recommended follow-up.

  • Checking citations in a paper draft
  • Auditing references after a literature review
  • Reviewing citation quality before submission
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Foreign-CF-Study

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Turn a research proposal into a corporate finance study using data from the United States, Europe, Japan, or multiple countries. The workflow supports journal selection, Python analysis, statistical checks, and preparation of LaTeX tables and figures.

  • Analyze policy effects on corporate investment and financing
  • Select target journals for a research proposal
  • Produce regression tables and validation figures
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026

Evaluate papers, research proposals, and literature reviews using structured criteria. Produces evidence-based feedback on research questions, methods, data, analysis, and writing, with optional scores and prioritized recommendations tailored to the work's stage and purpose.

  • Reviewing a paper before submission
  • Assessing a research proposal's methods and feasibility
  • Checking the coverage and synthesis of a literature review
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026