jhr-writing-style
Use when polishing Journal of Human Resources (JHR) prose — abstract, introduction, results paragraphs that translate coefficients into policy units, reconciliation language against prior estimates, disclosure wording, and structure that respects the page-limited manuscript format.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-writing-style --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.
# Writing Style (jhr-writing-style) ## When to trigger - The manuscript is too long for the 40-page limit - The policy lesson or identification strategy is buried - Results paragraphs report coefficients without interpretation ## Style principles - State the empirical-micro question in the first page. - Make the identifying variation visible before literature detail. - Translate coefficients into policy-relevant magnitudes. - Reconcile with prior work explicitly. - Keep main-text tables few and move supporting material to the Online Appendix. ## First-page pattern The first page should do five jobs in order: 1. Name the policy-relevant empirical-micro question. 2. State the institutional or data feature that creates variation. 3. Give the headline estimate in natural units. 4. Say how it compares with the closest prior estimate. 5. State the policy interpretation and its boundary. Do not open with a broad policy problem for more than one paragraph. JHR readers need to see the design and reconciliation early. ## Abstract compression Use a five-sentence abstract unless the journal's live limit forces something tighter: 1. Policy-relevant question. 2. Data and identifying variation. 3
- When to trigger
- Style principles
- First-page pattern
- Abstract compression
- Results paragraph pattern
- Before/after: a results paragraph rewritten for JHR
- Sentence-level conventions
- Trim hierarchy for the page cap
- Output format
What does the jhr-writing-style skill do?
Use when polishing Journal of Human Resources (JHR) prose — abstract, introduction, results paragraphs that translate coefficients into policy units, reconciliation language against prior estimates, disclosure wording, and structure that respects the page-limited manuscript format.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhr-writing-style --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.