From demog-skills
Structures Demography manuscript findings into a population-science contribution by making mechanisms, scope conditions, and observable implications explicit.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/demog-skills:demog-theory-buildingThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
At Demography a result is not a contribution until it is attached to a **claim population science can
At Demography a result is not a contribution until it is attached to a claim population science can use — a mechanism that explains a demographic process, a sharper estimate that revises the record, or a formal result that unifies or clarifies. This skill turns findings into argument: explicit mechanisms, scope conditions, and observable implications, in the idiom appropriate to your kind of work.
demog-research-design.Ask: Could a demographer studying a different component or population import this mechanism, measure,
or decomposition? If yes, you have a population-science contribution. If it only works for your exact
case, generalize the logic or reframe (back to demog-topic-selection).
A hypothetical study observes that completed cohort fertility fell across successive birth cohorts. The argument is built in the idiom Demography — the Population Association of America flagship at Duke University Press — rewards (numbers invented to illustrate):
demog-topic-selection.【Core claim】one sentence
【Mechanism / identity】the population story or formal result
【Assumptions】(formal) the load-bearing ones
【Observable implications】testable demographic signatures -> research-design
【Scope conditions】which populations / periods it covers
【Portability】who else in population science can use this
【Next】demog-research-design
../../resources/external_tools.md — formal-demography and decomposition tooling../../resources/official-source-map.md — Demography scope and contribution expectationsnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin demog-skillsBuilds a Population and Development Review manuscript argument by making mechanisms, scope conditions, and observable implications explicit. For empirical studies, formal models, or synthetic essays that need a clear population-and-development claim.
Positions a Demography manuscript against the population-science literature to frame it as a contribution of general interest to demographers across fertility, mortality, migration, family, and health.
Structures theoretical arguments for Social Forces manuscripts, ensuring portability and theoretical grounding. Useful when empirics are strong but the 'so what' is thin.