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-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Guide economic time series analysis from initial plots to forecasting. Use Python, R, and Stata examples to check whether statistical properties remain stable over time, choose models, diagnose errors, and examine relationships between multiple series.
- Checking trends and stationarity in economic data
- Building ARIMA forecasts and evaluating accuracy
- Examining relationships between multiple time series
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated 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-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Develop Bayesian models for quantitative social science, from choosing priors to reporting posterior results. Guide MCMC, a sampling method for estimating distributions, check convergence, and assess sensitivity for hierarchical models and small datasets.
- Choosing priors for models with small datasets
- Implementing hierarchical models in Stan or PyMC
- Investigating MCMC convergence problems
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Clean up completed research folders by identifying temporary and intermediate files for confirmed removal. Preserve papers, final findings, screening history, and methodology records, then check that essential files remain intact and report the space recovered.
- Preparing a completed research folder for archiving
- Organizing research files before sharing with collaborators
- Reviewing accumulated temporary files for removal
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Find related research by following a paper's references and the later papers that cite it through Semantic Scholar. Filters prioritize relevant candidates, avoid duplicate reviews, and record citation relationships for a focused literature search.
- Finding related studies from a relevant paper
- Checking which papers cite a study
- Tracing earlier work through references
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Coordinate multiple helper agents to screen large paper collections, extract detailed findings, and explore citations. Consolidate structured results into review records and summaries, while checking coverage, duplicate entries, and consistency in relevance scoring.
- Screening more than 50 papers for relevance
- Extracting methods and findings from priority papers
- Exploring papers that cite or are cited by a key study
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Find scientific papers in PubMed by turning a research question into targeted search terms and synonyms. Collect titles, authors, abstracts, and identifiers into a structured paper list ready for relevance evaluation.
- Finding an initial paper set for a research question
- Searching for methods, compounds, or diseases
- Filtering papers by date, journal, or author
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated 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-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Build and test scoring criteria for selecting relevant research papers. Refine the rules against your judgments, screen large sets of abstracts, and reassess saved papers when criteria change, with records of scores and revisions.
- Define relevance criteria before a large literature search
- Investigate papers incorrectly included or excluded
- Reassess saved abstracts after changing screening criteria
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Check whether medicinal chemistry papers are indexed in ChEMBL, a curated database of biological activity measurements. Look up papers by DOI, report available data counts, and retrieve structured measurements before extracting tables from PDFs.
- Checking ChEMBL coverage before extracting PDF tables
- Retrieving IC50 or MIC measurements from a paper
- Recording ChEMBL links and data counts in research notes
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Investigate research questions by searching PubMed, assessing paper relevance, and following references and citing papers. Extract specific data and findings into an organized summary, with search methods, citation links, and screening records for later review.
- Find published data for a research question
- Start a literature review
- Expand a search through citation links
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Search Kaggle datasets, competitions, notebooks, and models through its official command-line tool. Download public data into a chosen directory and preserve audit records and file hashes, identifiers used to check downloaded files.
- Finding Kaggle datasets and inspecting metadata
- Downloading public data into a chosen directory
- Discovering competitions, notebooks, and models
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Choose AI tools for literature searches, PDF conversion, citation-backed questions, and review writing. The skill also installs and runs supported tools through a shared launcher, with workflows that connect paper retrieval, conversion, and analysis.
- Choosing tools for a literature review
- Converting research PDFs to Markdown
- Asking citation-backed questions across PDFs
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Find legally available free versions of academic papers using a DOI, a unique paper identifier. Check full-text and PDF locations, open access status, available versions, and license information for individual papers or reading lists.
- Find a legally available free PDF
- Check free access for a reading list
- Review publication licenses and versions
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Analyze empirical economics PDFs through five questions covering the research problem, causal identification, target effect, robustness, and contribution. Receive a structured Chinese report and a practical checklist of research methods to adapt to other studies.
- Reading an empirical economics paper systematically
- Understanding how a paper identifies causal effects
- Examining robustness checks and research limitations
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Search academic sources for papers on a topic, retrieve publication details, and find available PDFs. The skill guides source selection, combines results across services, and removes duplicates using DOIs, unique identifiers assigned to papers.
- Search multiple sources for papers on a topic
- Find economics and social science working papers
- Retrieve publication details from a DOI
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Research online topics by dividing questions among delegated agents, each handling a separate subtopic. Saves the plan and findings, then combines multiple web sources into a cited response that identifies gaps and limitations.
- Researching current information across multiple web sources
- Comparing options through separate research subtopics
- Preparing a report with source URLs
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Choose and interpret models for panel data, which tracks the same firms, people, or countries over time. Use Python, R, or Stata examples to compare fixed and random effects, check assumptions, and select standard errors.
- Choosing between fixed and random effects
- Estimating entity and time effects together
- Selecting standard errors for correlated observations
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Search the web, extract page content, and interact with sites that require login or dynamic loading. The skill selects suitable access methods and can use an existing Chrome session to navigate pages, fill forms, and read content.
- Researching information from original sources
- Reading pages that require login
- Extracting dynamically loaded social media content
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Turn regression results and summary statistics from Stata, R, or Python into LaTeX tables for academic papers. Format model comparisons, decimal places, statistical significance markers, and notes, with guidance for wide tables and inclusion in a paper.
- Comparing several regression models in one table
- Formatting summary statistics for a paper
- Combining results into a table with multiple panels
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Write, debug, and understand Stata code for data cleaning, statistical analysis, causal inference, and charts. The reference covers command syntax, common pitfalls, Mata programming, and community packages for estimation and reporting.
- Write and debug Stata .do files
- Clean and merge analysis datasets
- Implement regression and causal inference methods
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Turn a recurring workflow into an agent skill, or improve an existing one. Draft instructions, compare test outputs against a baseline, review quality and resource usage, and refine the description that determines when the skill is invoked.
- Turning a recurring workflow into a new skill
- Improving an existing skill using test feedback
- Comparing skill quality, execution time, and token usage
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026
Generate a Stata .do file that compares every subset of optional control variables across parallel instances. The script ranks combinations by the focal variable’s absolute t-statistic, reports the top ten, and fits the highest-ranked model.
- Comparing all subsets of optional control variables
- Keeping mandatory controls in every regression
- Preparing parallel regression runs in Stata
brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills☆ 4.7KUpdated Oct 20, 2026