jole-contribution-framing
Use when articulating what is new in a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript for a general labor-economics audience — the marginal contribution, the labor lesson, and why a labor economist outside the subfield should care. Frames the pitch; it does not run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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 (jole-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - A referee or reader cannot quickly say what the paper adds to labor economics - The result is "a coefficient" with no articulated lesson - The contribution is over-claimed (global statement from a local estimate) or under-claimed (real lesson buried) - You need a one-paragraph "what's new for labor" statement for the intro and cover letter ## What "contribution" means at JOLE JOLE is a **general-interest labor-economics** journal published for the **Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)**, so the contribution must register with labor economists **beyond your own subfield**, not only with specialists on your exact policy or dataset. A JOLE contribution typically takes one of these shapes: 1. **A new credible answer** to a first-order labor question (e.g., a returns-to-X, a labor-supply elasticity, an effect of an institution) where prior estimates were not well identified. 2. **A new fact** about the labor market made possible by novel or newly linked data (e.g., firm–worker registers, administrative earnings), disciplined against measurement error. 3. **A new mechanism** distinguishing between competing labor-econ
- When to trigger
- What "contribution" means at JOLE
- Framing the contribution
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What does the jole-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when articulating what is new in a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) manuscript for a general labor-economics audience — the marginal contribution, the labor lesson, and why a labor economist outside the subfield should care. Frames the pitch; it does not run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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 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.