aejpol-literature-positioning
Use when placing the contribution against the policy-evaluation literature and sharpening it as a policy answer for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript. Stakes the contribution and the policy-relevant "so what"; it does not write the full introduction or design the identification.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning & Contribution Framing (aejpol-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The contribution vs. existing policy evaluations is fuzzy, or sounds like "we add another estimate" - A referee asks "what do we learn beyond [prior study of this or a similar policy]?" - The literature review is a list of citations rather than a map of the open policy question - You need to frame the contribution so the **policy lesson**, not the method, is the news ## How AEJ: Policy contributions are staked At AEJ: Policy the contribution is a **better answer to a policy question**, not a new estimate for its own sake. Position the paper on three axes and make the policy reading the headline: 1. **The policy-design gap.** What does a policymaker still not know — the sign, the magnitude, the cost-effectiveness, the incidence, the optimal level, or the external validity of an existing estimate? State the gap as something a decision-maker would care about. 2. **The credibility upgrade.** If prior evidence exists, say why yours is more credible (cleaner design, better data, a policy variation that breaks a confound, a setting that fixes external-validity worries) — but only as a mean
- When to trigger
- How AEJ: Policy contributions are staked
- Positioning patterns that land
- Citation discipline (AEA house)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee pushback mapped to the fix
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- How the three contribution bullets read in the intro
- Output format
What does the aejpol-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when placing the contribution against the policy-evaluation literature and sharpening it as a policy answer for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript. Stakes the contribution and the policy-relevant "so what"; it does not write the full introduction or design the identification.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-literature-positioning --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.