jpube-literature-positioning
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript against the public-finance literature — locating the contribution relative to the tax, social-insurance, public-expenditure, and optimal-policy frontier without writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not frame the core contribution (use jpube-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-literature-positioning --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.
# Literature Positioning (jpube-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The related-work section reads like a survey, not a staking of claim - You cannot name the two or three papers you are directly building on or beating - A reviewer might say "this has been done" or "the optimal-tax connection is missing" - You are unsure which strand of public economics owns your question ## Positioning at JPubE JPubE referees are public-finance specialists, and they judge the **contribution against the field's own frontier**, not against general economics. Position the paper inside the relevant strand and against the canonical references that define it: - **Taxable-income / elasticity strand** — Feldstein-style ETI, the Saez–Slemrod–Giertz synthesis, bunching-based elasticity estimates. Say which estimate yours updates and why. - **Optimal taxation** — the Mirrlees / Diamond–Saez sufficient-statistics tradition. If you estimate a sufficient statistic, connect it explicitly to the optimal-policy formula it feeds. - **Social insurance** — the Baily–Chetty optimal-UI / insurance-vs.-moral-hazard frontier; the MVPF welfare-comparison program. State which trade-off your evidence sharpens. - **
- When to trigger
- Positioning at JPubE
- Positioning moves
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Strand-claim grid (worked, illustrative)
- Positioning pass for Journal of Public Economics
- Output format
What does the jpube-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when positioning a Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) manuscript against the public-finance literature — locating the contribution relative to the tax, social-insurance, public-expenditure, and optimal-policy frontier without writing a standalone survey. Positions the paper; it does not frame the core contribution (use jpube-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-literature-positioning --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.