ectj-contribution-framing
Use when sharpening a contribution for The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) into a compact leading-case claim with demonstrated applied value, covering the failure mode of incumbent methods, the smallest sharp advance, the applied payoff, and scope guardrails that survive the one-week RES desk screen.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectj-contribution-framing --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.
# EctJ Contribution Framing Use this after the method and application are known but before final writing. EctJ seeks original contributions of direct or potential value in applications, and explicitly favors path-breaking, leading-case work over exhaustive treatment. Because the Editor-in-Chief screens conforming papers within about one week and desk-rejects with little comment, the contribution must be legible fast: the summary (no more than 150 words) and opening pages have to make the advance and its applied payoff obvious on a single read. ## Framing checks - Lead with the econometric problem and why existing methods fail in an applied setting. - State the leading-case advance: new identification logic, estimator, test, approximation, inference method, or computation. - Explain what applied researchers can now do that they could not do cleanly before. - Keep claims proportional to the paper's scope; do not market a narrow special case as a complete framework. - Make the empirical application more than an illustration: it should reveal practical value. ## EctJ-ready contribution pattern Write the contribution in four linked sentences: 1. **Failure mode** - name the empirical or
- Framing checks
- EctJ-ready contribution pattern
- Worked vignette: few-treated-cluster inference
- Framing failure modes the EctJ screen punishes
- Output format
What does the ectj-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when sharpening a contribution for The Econometrics Journal (EctJ) into a compact leading-case claim with demonstrated applied value, covering the failure mode of incumbent methods, the smallest sharp advance, the applied payoff, and scope guardrails that survive the one-week RES desk screen.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ectj-contribution-framing --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 984 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.