Research

Brainstorm a longlist of benefits and costs for a project. Outputs two clean tables (benefits and costs), each with materiality (H/M/L), a cash flow tag (cash in / cash out / non-cash), a quantification method, and a monetisation method. Supports HMT Green Book, EU Better Regulation Guidelines, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and the Victorian Treasury High Value High Risk (HVHR) framework.

Public finances briefing. Supports UK, US, and Australia. Produces a single compact briefing on borrowing, debt, receipts, spending, and fiscal rules. Optional debt sustainability analysis via the debtkit R package. User-selectable sub-components and multi-format export.

Audit economic analysis outputs (fiscal briefings, macro briefings, market research, longlists, and other quantitative economic documents) against methodology standards, academic literature, and common errors. Runs structured checks across core categories including counterfactual, additionality, discounting, double counting, distributional analysis, Aqua Book RIGOUR, and Flyvbjerg-style strategic misrepresentation detection. Returns a RAG scorecard with issues ranked by severity.

Cost-benefit analysis. Produces economic NPV and financial NPV side by side, with BCR, optimism bias (with mitigation), Marginal Excess Tax Burden, real-terms rebasing, WELLBY / QALY / VPF wellbeing valuation, sensitivity, switching values, EANC for unequal-life options, validation gate, and a one-line headline verdict (socially worthwhile vs financially self-sustaining). Backed by the greenbook R package (HM Treasury Green Book primitives) when available, with graceful fallback. Supports HMT...

Structured policy briefing note (1-2 pages). Issue, background, analysis, options, recommendation. UK GES, Australian Treasury, consulting formats. Auto-populates from econstack data skills.

Query and analyze SEC filings using EdgarTools

Expert economics paper writing assistant synthesizing advice from 50+ top guides by Cochrane, McCloskey, Shapiro, Head, Bellemare, Goldin, Glaeser, Kremer, and other leading economists. USE THIS SKILL whenever the user writes, edits, reviews, rewrites, or structures any economics paper, thesis, job market paper, abstract, introduction, conclusion, results section, literature review, or referee response. Also handles LaTeX formatting, presentations, and paper audits. Covers all paper types (ap...

Modern tidyverse patterns for R including pipes, joins, grouping, purrr, and stringr. Use when writing tidyverse R code.

rlang metaprogramming patterns for data-masking, injection operators, and dynamic dots. Use when writing functions that use tidy evaluation.

R style guide covering naming conventions, spacing, layout, and function design best practices. Use when writing R code.

R performance best practices including profiling, benchmarking, vctrs, and optimization strategies. Use when optimizing R code.

R object-oriented programming guide for S7, S3, S4, and vctrs. Use when designing R classes or choosing an OOP system.

Patterns for Bayesian inference in R using brms, including multilevel models, DAG validation, and marginal effects. Use when performing Bayesian analysis.

Structural topic modeling: STM spec, topic count, coherence-exclusivity.

LLM-based text classification: codebook, validation, agreement statistics.

Design and format publication-quality tables: column order, row grouping, notes, precision, reproducibility.

Design survey instruments: questions, scales, flow, social desirability.

Scaffold or audit a social-science replication package at a target directory. Generates folder structure, README, master.R, figure/table crosswalk, codebook template, LICENSE placeholder, and pre-release checklist. Adapted from Yusaku Horiuchi's replication-package-guide with FAIR-principle integration; platform-neutral (Harvard Dataverse, OSF, Zenodo, GitHub releases, institutional archives).

Write pre-analysis plans: PAP structure, registry, analysis strategy.

Pre-submission audit: argument, numerics, refs, writing, figures, replication.

Draft scientific introductions: argument logic, framing, multi-experiment coherence.

Check methods reporting against CONSORT, JARS, DA-RT standards.

Build or audit a literature review: evidence map, gaps, synthesis plan.

Design and diagnose list experiments (item count technique).