jde-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a research question fits the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) — a first-order question about low- and middle-income economies and the process of economic development. Tests topic fit before identification or drafting begins.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection (jde-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have data or a setting but are unsure it is a *development* question - The question is interesting but the developing-country stakes are unclear - You are weighing whether the work fits JDE versus a general-interest or a regional journal - You are deciding whether to run the project as a prospective, pre-results-reviewed design ## The JDE fit bar JDE is the **leading field journal in development economics**, published by Elsevier. It publishes theoretical and empirical research on the **economics of developing countries and the process of economic development** — poverty, growth, institutions, trade and development, health, education, labor, agriculture, credit and finance, and the microeconomics and macroeconomics of low- and middle-income economies. A question fits when: - The **economic agent or economy is developing** (a household, firm, market, or government in an LMIC), and the mechanism is genuinely about development, not a generic micro result that happens to use developing-country data. - It is **first-order**: it speaks to welfare, growth, or policy for poor populations, not a marginal refinement of a within
- When to trigger
- The JDE fit bar
- Decision shortcuts
- Fit-screen table (illustrative verdicts)
- Worked fit call (illustrative)
- Referee fit pushback
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Journal of Development Economics
- Output format
What does the jde-topic-selection skill do?
Use when judging whether a research question fits the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) — a first-order question about low- and middle-income economies and the process of economic development. Tests topic fit before identification or drafting begins.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-topic-selection --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.