jeem-theory-model
Use when a Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) manuscript needs a resource/pollution-control or dynamic-resource model that earns its place — generating a testable comparative static or a policy-relevant welfare expression, not decorating an empirical result. Sharpens the model; it does not invent evidence or citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeem-theory-model --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.
# Theory and Model Craft (jeem-theory-model) ## When to trigger - A pollution/abatement or resource-extraction model is in the paper but a referee asks "what does the model buy us?" - The empirical work needs a conceptual frame that maps estimates to a **welfare or optimal-policy** statement - A dynamic-resource problem (fishery, forest, groundwater, exhaustible stock) needs its Euler/Hotelling logic made explicit - The model's comparative statics are stated but never confronted with data or used to derive the efficient instrument ## What a model must earn at JEEM JEEM is empirical-leaning, so a model is rarely the whole paper; it must **do work**. A model earns its place if it (a) produces a sign or magnitude prediction the empirics then test, (b) delivers the **welfare or optimal-instrument** expression that turns reduced-form estimates into a policy number, or (c) reveals a mechanism — leakage, avoidance, dynamic adjustment — that changes the interpretation. A model that only restates intuition or that cannot be confronted with the data should be cut to an appendix or removed. ## When the paper needs no formal model Not every JEEM paper needs a model section, and forcing one wea
- When to trigger
- What a model must earn at JEEM
- When the paper needs no formal model
- The canonical JEEM modeling toolkit
- How to make the model load-bearing
- Price-vs-quantity and the role of uncertainty
- Calibration discipline
- Connecting the model to the policy instrument
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Where the model lives in the paper
- Output format
What does the jeem-theory-model skill do?
Use when a Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) manuscript needs a resource/pollution-control or dynamic-resource model that earns its place — generating a testable comparative static or a policy-relevant welfare expression, not decorating an empirical result. Sharpens the model; it does not invent evidence or citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeem-theory-model --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.