aejpol-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming. Shapes the policy-first narrative and house style; it does not design identification or build the welfare model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-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 — From Estimate to Policy Takeaway (aejpol-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The intro buries the policy question under data or method - The abstract reports a coefficient but no policy lesson - The paper has a clean estimate but no sentence a policymaker could act on — or it overclaims - You are polishing for submission and need AEA house tone > Late-stage polish: do not rewrite the intro until identification (`aejpol-identification`), the welfare bridge (`aejpol-theory-model`), and robustness (`aejpol-robustness`) have settled. ## The AEJ: Policy introduction arc **Policy question → why credible identification is hard → the design that delivers it → headline causal estimate (with SE/CI) → welfare / cost-benefit / distributional reading → concrete, calibrated policy lesson → brief roadmap.** The distinctive moves vs. a general applied-micro intro: 1. **Open with the policy question, not the dataset or estimator.** A non-specialist AEA reader should know within two sentences what policy is at stake and why the answer matters. 2. **Put the headline estimate, with its uncertainty, on page one** — in policy-interpretable units (a percentage-point effect, a cost-per-o
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Policy introduction arc
- Translating estimates into policy language without overclaiming
- AEA house style
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the aejpol-writing-style skill do?
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming. Shapes the policy-first narrative and house style; it does not design identification or build the welfare model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-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.