jpe-rebuttal
Use when a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Structures the response and the diff; it does not redo the analysis (route back to jpe-identification / jpe-theory-model / jpe-robustness first).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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 Response & Rebuttal (jpe-rebuttal) ## When to trigger - A JPE R&R (or reject-with-encouragement-to-resubmit) letter has arrived - You have referee reports and need a point-by-point response plan - You are deciding which requests to implement, which to push back on, and how - The revision is drafted and you need the response letter to accompany it > Do the revisions *before* writing the letter. The letter documents changes already made; it should never promise work that is not in the revised manuscript. ## Reading the decision letter - The **co-editor's letter** is the binding document (at JPE the handling co-editor — Chicago-centered board led by Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, or a companion lead editor: John List for JPE Microeconomics, Greg Kaplan for JPE Macroeconomics — writes it). Identify which referee points the co-editor flags as essential vs. optional and prioritize accordingly. - Separate requests into: (a) must-do for the co-editor, (b) reasonable and cheap, (c) costly or wrong-headed. Negotiate (c) with evidence, not assertion. - A JPE co-editor and referees care most about the *economic argument*: expect demands to strengthen the mechanism, address a GE/selection object
- When to trigger
- Reading the decision letter
- Response-letter structure
- Handling the JPE-typical demands
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jpe-rebuttal skill do?
Use when a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Structures the response and the diff; it does not redo the analysis (route back to jpe-identification / jpe-theory-model / jpe-robustness first).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpe-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 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.