jde-literature-positioning
Use when staking a manuscript's contribution against the development-economics literature for the Journal of Development Economics (JDE). Positions the paper at the frontier; it does not write a standalone survey.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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 (jde-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - A reviewer would ask "what is new here relative to the development literature?" - The introduction reads like a survey instead of staking a claim - You cannot name the two or three papers you are directly building on or beating - You are unsure whether a result is incremental or a genuine advance for the field ## The JDE positioning bar JDE referees are specialists in development economics; they judge the **contribution first**. Positioning has to be precise about the field's frontier, not a general-economics frame. Three moves: 1. **Locate the conversation.** Name the specific development literature you join — e.g., the microeconomics of poverty traps, randomized evaluation of education or health interventions, agricultural technology adoption, credit and microfinance, migration, trade and firms in LMICs, political economy of development, or development macro and growth. 2. **Stake the gap precisely.** Say what is known, what the binding open question is, and why prior work could not answer it (data, identification, setting, or theory). Generic "little is known" framing fails here. 3. **Claim the increment.
- When to trigger
- The JDE positioning bar
- Positioning tactics
- Worked positioning (illustrative)
- Positioning failure modes and fixes
- Anti-patterns
- Positioning pass for Journal of Development Economics
- Output format
What does the jde-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when staking a manuscript's contribution against the development-economics literature for the Journal of Development Economics (JDE). Positions the paper at the frontier; it does not write a standalone survey.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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.