aeja-writing-style
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in the first paragraph in AEA house style. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the exhibits.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-writing-style --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Writing Style (aeja-writing-style) ## When to trigger - Identification and robustness are settled and the paper needs its final exposition pass - The introduction buries the question and the estimate under setup or literature - The abstract does not state the headline number with its uncertainty - The prose reads like a field-internal note rather than broad applied micro ## The AEJ: Applied introduction arc AEJ: Applied prose is **plain, direct, and design-forward**. The introduction should follow the applied-micro arc: **question → why credible identification is hard → the design that solves it → headline causal estimate with a standard error → mechanism → policy/economic lesson → brief roadmap.** A non-specialist applied economist should grasp the question and the answer in the first paragraph; the design should be legible by the end of the second. | Section | What it must do at AEJ: Applied | |---------|--------------------------------| | Abstract | question + design + headline estimate (with units & SE) + lesson, in ≤ the AEA word norm | | Intro ¶1 | the economic question and the headline number, with uncertainty, no throat-clearing | | Intro ¶2–3 | why naive estimates fail +
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Applied introduction arc
- Writing craft
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the writing fix
- Output format
What does the aeja-writing-style skill do?
Use when revising the prose, abstract, and introduction of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the design and headline estimate land in the first paragraph in AEA house style. Polishes exposition; it does not change the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or the exhibits.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-writing-style --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.