expecon-literature-positioning
Use when staking an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's contribution against prior experiments and the behavioral theory it tests. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent results or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-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 (expecon-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A referee or coauthor says "we already know this" — the marginal contribution over existing experiments is unclear - Your design is close to a canonical paradigm (dictator, ultimatum, public goods, trust, beauty contest, double auction) and you must show what is genuinely new - The intro cites behavioral theory but never says which prediction your treatment *adjudicates* - You are unsure whether your novelty is a new **treatment**, a new **method/elicitation**, a **replication**, or a **boundary condition** ## What counts as a contribution here At a method-defined journal, positioning is not "no one has studied topic X." It is "**no prior design could deliver the comparison I deliver**." Locate your paper on this ladder, from weakest to strongest: 1. **Re-label** — same paradigm, new cover story. Usually insufficient on its own. 2. **New boundary condition** — a known effect tested where theory predicts it should vanish/flip; valuable when the prediction is sharp and pre-registered. 3. **Confound removal** — a cleaner control that isolates a mechanism prior designs conflated (e.g., separating altruism fr
- When to trigger
- What counts as a contribution here
- Positioning the design against its ancestors
- Sibling boundary in the lit review
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Three sentences every ExpEcon intro needs
- Building the comparison from paradigm building blocks
- Checklist
- Engaging the methodological critics
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning a replication or Registered Report
- Output format
What does the expecon-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking an Experimental Economics (ExpEcon) manuscript's contribution against prior experiments and the behavioral theory it tests. Sharpens positioning; it does not invent results or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill expecon-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 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.