jeea-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript. Tests general-interest fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the empirics or model.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeea-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 & Fit (jeea-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The question feels important within one subfield but you are unsure it travels - You are choosing between JEEA, *The Economic Journal*, the *European Economic Review*, a field journal, or a top-5 - A draft answers a narrow technical question with no broad lesson - A co-author asks "is this a JEEA paper?" ## The JEEA fit bar JEEA is the **EEA's general-interest journal** for high-quality theoretical and empirical economics. The bar is **general interest at a high theory-and-empirics standard**: a paper must matter to a broad economics readership, not only to specialists in its subfield. JEEA is genuinely **field-agnostic** — micro and macro theory, applied econometrics, applied micro, finance, development, public all appear — so what discriminates is not the field but whether the **lesson generalizes** and whether the **execution clears a strong methodological bar** for either a credible empirical design or a disciplined model. Two questions decide fit: 1. **Does the lesson travel?** State the take-away in one sentence a non-specialist economist would find surprising or consequential. If the sentence only lands for
- When to trigger
- The JEEA fit bar
- Fit decision table
- Sibling discrimination (do not target the wrong European outlet)
- The two-minute fit triage
- Checklist
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jeea-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question fits the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) rather than a field journal or a sibling general-interest outlet for a JEEA manuscript. Tests general-interest fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the empirics or model.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeea-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.