jde-contribution-framing
Use when sharpening the development-economics takeaway of a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) manuscript — the explicit "what this teaches about development" claim that an editor and referees can restate in one sentence. Frames the contribution; it is not a writing-polish pass.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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.
# Contribution Framing (jde-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - You can describe your result but not the development *lesson* it delivers - The introduction states coefficients but not what they mean for poverty, growth, or policy - An editor skimming for two minutes could not restate your contribution - The paper risks reading as "a result from a developing country" rather than a development contribution ## The JDE framing bar JDE publishes work on the **economics of developing countries and economic development**, and its referees expect a contribution that is legible to the whole field, not only to a niche. Framing turns a result into a contribution by answering, explicitly and early: - **What did we not know that we now know** about development — a mechanism, a magnitude, a policy effect, or a theoretical possibility? - **For whom and where does it bind** — which populations, markets, or institutions in low- and middle-income economies? - **What follows** — for theory, for the evidence base, or for a concrete policy lever (a program, a price, a regulation, a credit or transfer scheme)? State the contribution in one sentence in the abstract and again at the end of the int
- When to trigger
- The JDE framing bar
- Framing tactics
- From result to contribution (worked, illustrative)
- Contribution-strength screen
- Referee pushback on contribution
- Anti-patterns
- Contribution pass for Journal of Development Economics
- Output format
What does the jde-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when sharpening the development-economics takeaway of a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) manuscript — the explicit "what this teaches about development" claim that an editor and referees can restate in one sentence. Frames the contribution; it is not a writing-polish pass.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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 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.