jebo-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it. Sharpens scope and the behavioral hook; it does not invent evidence, editors, or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-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 (jebo-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have a clean result but are unsure whether JEBO or a sibling (Experimental Economics, GEB, J. Economic Psychology, J. Public Economics) is the right home - The paper is a good causal study but the **behavioral** angle is thin or bolted on - A coauthor asks "is this behavioral enough for JEBO?" - The question is interesting but the audience that would cite it is unclear ## What JEBO actually rewards JEBO's organizing idea is **economic behavior outside the frictionless, fully-rational benchmark**: bounded rationality, social and other-regarding preferences, heuristics and biases, learning and adaptation, institutions and organizations as responses to behavioral constraints. A JEBO paper leads with a **behavioral mechanism** and uses whatever method (experiment, empirics, theory, simulation) best identifies it. The test is not "is the design clean?" but "does this teach us something about how real economic agents actually decide and organize?" Run the topic through three filters, in order: 1. **Behavioral content.** Is there a genuine deviation from the rational-actor benchmark — a preference, belief, heuristic, or ins
- When to trigger
- What JEBO actually rewards
- Sibling boundary — where JEBO ends and others begin
- Framing the hook
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jebo-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it. Sharpens scope and the behavioral hook; it does not invent evidence, editors, or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jebo-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 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.