jpube-topic-selection
Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance, redistribution, externalities, public goods, fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership. Scopes the question; it does not run the analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-topic-selection --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.
# Topic Selection (jpube-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - You have data or a result but are unsure it is a *public-economics* paper - The question is interesting empirically but the government-role angle is unclear - You are choosing between a general-interest framing and a public-finance framing - You need to decide whether JPubE or a generalist / specialty field journal fits ## The JPubE fit bar JPubE was founded in 1972 by **Tony Atkinson** to be the home for rigorous analysis of the **economic role of government**, and under current Editors **Nathaniel Hendren** and **Wojciech Kopczuk** it still rewards exactly that: a question about how government policy affects behavior, welfare, or the distribution of resources, answered with **modern theory and quantitative methods** and a lesson that travels to an **international readership**. A strong JPubE topic sits squarely in one of the field's pillars: - **Taxation** — labor-supply and taxable-income elasticities, optimal tax, tax avoidance/evasion, corporate and capital taxation, bunching at kinks/notches - **Social insurance & transfers** — UI, DI, health insurance, pensions, EITC, means-tested programs, moral hazard vs. insur
- When to trigger
- The JPubE fit bar
- Fit diagnostics
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Fit pass for Journal of Public Economics
- Output format
What does the jpube-topic-selection skill do?
Use when assessing whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics (JPubE) — the economic role of government (taxation, public expenditure, social insurance, redistribution, externalities, public goods, fiscal policy) — and whether the policy stakes clear the bar for an international readership. Scopes the question; it does not run the analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpube-topic-selection --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.