jole-rebuttal
Use when drafting a response letter to a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) revise-and-resubmit — addressing single-blind labor referees point by point under the journal's word economy. Strategy and structure; it does not run new estimations for you.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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.
# R&R Rebuttal Strategy (jole-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JOLE decision letter arrives with referee reports and an invitation to revise - You have new results and need to convert them into a referee-by-referee response - Referees disagree with each other and you must reconcile their demands - You are unsure how much to concede versus defend on a labor-identification critique ## The JOLE rebuttal context JOLE review is **single-blind**: referees know who you are, and you are responding to named-but-anonymous labor economists. The revised manuscript stays **non-anonymized** (title page with all co-authors), and it must still respect the **~20,000-word** soft cap with each full-page table/figure counting as **500 words** — so you cannot answer every comment by bolting on five new exhibits; some responses belong in the letter or a tightly bounded online appendix rather than the body. References remain **Chicago author-date**. Because the submission fee already gated the first decision, treat the R&R as the scarce, valuable channel it is. ## Structure of the response 1. **Cover note to the editor** — summarize the 2–3 most important changes and how they address the editor's framing
- When to trigger
- The JOLE rebuttal context
- Structure of the response
- Substantive moves for labor papers
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jole-rebuttal skill do?
Use when drafting a response letter to a Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) revise-and-resubmit — addressing single-blind labor referees point by point under the journal's word economy. Strategy and structure; it does not run new estimations for you.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-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 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.