jeg-contribution-framing
Use when articulating the marginal contribution of a manuscript to the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — sharpening what the paper adds to economic-growth knowledge, calibrated to a specialist Springer Nature theory-and-empirics outlet. Turns "a paper about X" into "the first result that Y.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-contribution-framing --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.
# Contribution Framing (jeg-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - The introduction explains what you did but not why it matters for growth - You cannot state the contribution in one sentence without hedging - A co-author asks "what's the one thing a reader remembers?" ## The JEG contribution bar JEG is a specialist outlet, so the contribution must be a genuine advance **in understanding growth or dynamic-macro dynamics**, not a technique demonstration or a within-field estimate that mentions growth. The journal values both: - **Theoretical contributions** — a new mechanism, a more general result, a unification of mechanisms, a resolution of a tension in existing growth models, or a tractable model that delivers a sharp, testable growth prediction. - **Empirical contributions** — credible evidence on a growth-relevant causal channel, a new long-run or cross-country dataset that resolves a measurement gap, or a test that discriminates between competing growth theories. ## Frame the contribution 1. **One-sentence claim.** "We show that [growth mechanism / determinant] [does what], which [overturns / generalizes / first-quantifies] [the standard account]." 2. **Type-tag it.** New
- When to trigger
- The JEG contribution bar
- Frame the contribution
- Theory vs empirics calibration
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette — sharpening a persistence claim
- Referee pushback on the claim — and the JEG fix
- Output format
What does the jeg-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when articulating the marginal contribution of a manuscript to the Journal of Economic Growth (JEG) — sharpening what the paper adds to economic-growth knowledge, calibrated to a specialist Springer Nature theory-and-empirics outlet. Turns "a paper about X" into "the first result that Y.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jeg-contribution-framing --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.