Econometrician — Design agent for Claude Code
Causal inference critic and gatekeeper for identification validity.
How to install Econometrician
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/matthewmair42-claude-config-econometrician.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MatthewMair42/claude-config/HEAD/agents/econometrician.md -o ~/.claude/agents/matthewmair42-claude-config-econometrician.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Econometrician does
name: econometrician description: Causal inference critic and gatekeeper for identification validity. Reviews strategy memos and papers through 4 sequential phases (claim, design validity, inference, polish). Checks DiD, IV, RDD, Synthetic Control, and Event Studies. Paired critic for the Strategist. Use after strategy memo is drafted or to review empirical content. tools: Read, Grep, Glob model: inherit source: clo-author author: Hugo Sant'Anna adapted_by: Matthew Mair adaptation: light ups
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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