jde-rebuttal
Use when responding to a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) decision — drafting the response letter and revision plan for a single-anonymized R&R, including the short-paper track's limited-revision structure. Strategy for the response; it does not rewrite the manuscript.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-rebuttal --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.
# Rebuttal & R&R Strategy (jde-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JDE R&R or revise decision arrived and you need a response-letter strategy - Referee reports conflict and you must triage which changes to make - You are on the short-paper track and have a single, time-boxed revision round - You need to decide what to concede, what to defend, and what to add ## Read the decision first JDE review is **single-anonymized** (referees know your identity), so responses are professional and direct; there is no anonymity to preserve on your side. Map the editor's letter against the referee reports: the **editor's priorities** are binding even when a referee raised a point in passing. Identify the two or three concerns that actually gate acceptance — typically **identification credibility, robustness, and the development contribution** — and lead with those. ## Track-specific timing - **Full-length R&R:** standard multi-round revision; referees usually see the resubmission. Expect to satisfy the editor across rounds, so address every point even if briefly. - **Short-paper (limited-revision) track:** you get a **single revision round of 4 weeks**, and **resubmissions are not returned to referee
- When to trigger
- Read the decision first
- Track-specific timing
- Response-letter structure
- Tactics
- Common JDE referee objections and the venue-specific fix
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jde-rebuttal skill do?
Use when responding to a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) decision — drafting the response letter and revision plan for a single-anonymized R&R, including the short-paper track's limited-revision structure. Strategy for the response; it does not rewrite the manuscript.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-rebuttal --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.