jpube-contribution-framing
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript needs sharpening — what the paper teaches about the economic role of government, why it matters for policy, and how it advances public-finance theory or evidence. Frames the contribution; it does not survey the literature (use jpube-literature-positioning) or run analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-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 (jpube-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - The intro lists results but never states the contribution in one sentence - Reviewers might ask "what do we now know about government policy that we didn't?" - The paper has a clean estimate but no welfare / policy payoff - You are deciding whether the contribution is empirical, theoretical, or both ## What "contribution" means at JPubE JPubE judges a paper by what it adds to our understanding of the **economic role of government** — the legacy of Atkinson's founding mandate and the standard the Hendren–Kopczuk editorial team applies. A coefficient is not a contribution; a **policy-relevant parameter, mechanism, or welfare conclusion** is. The strongest JPubE contributions take one of these shapes: 1. **A first-order policy elasticity** estimated credibly (e.g., the taxable-income or labor-supply elasticity, a take-up or moral-hazard parameter) that disciplines optimal-policy or welfare analysis. 2. **A welfare verdict** via a transparent framework — deadweight loss, the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF), or a **sufficient-statistics** mapping from estimated behavioral responses to welfare, holding stated
- When to trigger
- What "contribution" means at JPubE
- Framing moves
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- What the JPubE referee weighs (decision table)
- Worked vignette: a bunching paper that almost mis-framed itself (illustrative)
- Calibration anchors
- Output format
What does the jpube-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript needs sharpening — what the paper teaches about the economic role of government, why it matters for policy, and how it advances public-finance theory or evidence. Frames the contribution; it does not survey the literature (use jpube-literature-positioning) or run analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-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.