jhe-rebuttal
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jhe-identification / jhe-robustness) or the submission preflight.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-rebuttal --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.
# Rebuttal and Response Letter (jhe-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JHE **R&R** or reject-and-resubmit decision letter has arrived - You need to triage referee comments into must-do / argue / defer - You are drafting the response-to-referees document and the revision plan - Two referees disagree and you need a strategy that satisfies the editor ## How to read a JHE decision The **editor's letter is the priority signal**: it tells you which referee concerns are binding. At JHE the binding asks cluster around **design credibility** (selection, concurrent policy, staggered-DiD bias, inference) and **honest scope** (a coverage/utilization effect is not welfare) before exposition. Because review is single-anonymized and the referees are health economists, expect institution-specific pushback you must answer with evidence, not assertion. With ≥2 reviewers you will sometimes face **conflicting requests**; the editor's letter, not a majority vote, resolves them — address the editor's stated priorities first and in full. ## Response-letter structure 1. **Opening summary** — thank the editor and referees; state the 3–5 substantive changes that define the revision, leading with the identific
- When to trigger
- How to read a JHE decision
- Response-letter structure
- Triage table
- Checklist
- Coordinating the rebuttal with the rest of the pack
- Anti-patterns
- Timing and the resubmission cover note
- What "resolved" means at JHE
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
- Handoff boundary
What does the jhe-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response-to-referees letter plus revision plan must be drafted. Plans and structures the response; it does not run the new analysis (jhe-identification / jhe-robustness) or the submission preflight.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-rebuttal --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.