jhr-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Human Resources manuscript against applied microeconomics, labor, education, health, development, discrimination, retirement, and policy literatures, with explicit reconciliation to prior estimates.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (jhr-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The paper has a policy question but the contribution over prior work is fuzzy - Prior estimates conflict with yours and need reconciliation - The introduction reads like a general literature survey ## JHR positioning bar JHR explicitly values whether a manuscript reconciles its results with prior published work. Positioning must therefore do more than cite related papers: it should explain why estimates differ across samples, designs, populations, periods, or mechanisms. ## Checklist - Name the closest prior estimates and their design. - State whether your contribution is new variation, new data, new population, new mechanism, stronger reconciliation, or policy interpretation. - Compare magnitude, not only sign and significance. - Identify which prior result your analysis confirms, revises, or contradicts. - Preview any comparative estimation you run to bridge prior results. ## Prior-estimate bridge For each closest paper, write: ```text [Prior paper] estimates [magnitude] for [population/design]. Our estimate differs because [sample, policy environment, outcome, or design]. We bridge the difference by [comp
- When to trigger
- JHR positioning bar
- Checklist
- Prior-estimate bridge
- Reconciliation map
- Vignette: bridging conflicting minimum-wage estimates
- Field benchmarks referees carry in their heads
- Positioning sentences to avoid at JHR
- Output format
What does the jhr-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Human Resources manuscript against applied microeconomics, labor, education, health, development, discrimination, retirement, and policy literatures, with explicit reconciliation to prior estimates.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-literature-positioning --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.