jhe-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with health as a thin application. Frames the question and audience; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-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 (jhe-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - A draft is being aimed at **JHE** and you are unsure it is a *health-economics* paper versus a public-finance/labor paper that happens to use health data - A coauthor asks whether the question clears JHE's "value, production, or distribution of health or healthcare" bar - The paper risks landing better at AJHE, Journal of Public Economics, Health Economics, or AEJ: Economic Policy - The health-economics mechanism is not yet the center of gravity of the question ## The JHE fit test JHE asks whether the paper advances understanding of the **value, production, or distribution of health or healthcare**, or directly informs **health policy** (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). The decisive question is not "is there health data?" but "is the economic mechanism a *health-system* mechanism?" A paper where the health setting is interchangeable with any other market belongs elsewhere. Run the question through these health-econ cores and confirm at least one is the engine, not the backdrop: | Health-econ core | What makes it a JHE question (not a sibling's) | |------------------|------------------------------------------------| | Insurance design
- When to trigger
- The JHE fit test
- Sibling boundary (where papers get misrouted)
- Sharpening moves
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Quick triage when venue is genuinely ambiguous
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Handoff boundary
What does the jhe-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with health as a thin application. Frames the question and audience; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-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.