jue-literature-positioning
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right spatial literatures and the sibling journals; it does not design the identification or draft the prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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 (jue-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro cites broadly but never says *what is new* relative to the urban-econ frontier - A referee could say "this confirms what Rosen–Roback / spatial-equilibrium theory already implies" - The contribution is buried under a generic "the literature has not examined city Y" claim - You are unsure which strand (agglomeration, housing, sorting, transport, local public finance, place-based policy) you are actually contributing to - The paper reads as adjacent to JUE — it could be sent to RSUE, JEG, or JPubE without changing a word ## Position against the right spatial literature, not the world JUE referees are urban economists; they know the canonical frames and will test whether you have advanced one. Anchor the contribution in the **specific** strand you move, then state the delta precisely. | Strand | The frame referees hold | What counts as moving it | |--------|-------------------------|--------------------------| | Agglomeration & productivity | Marshall (sharing/matching/learning); Combes–Gobillon density-wage elasticity; sorting vs true agglomeration | new source of exogenous density variation; decompo
- When to trigger
- Position against the right spatial literature, not the world
- Crafting the contribution paragraph
- Positioning against the quantitative-spatial turn
- Distinguishing JUE from its siblings in the intro
- Cite the canon correctly — referees notice
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- The contribution paragraph in practice
- Output format
What does the jue-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right spatial literatures and the sibling journals; it does not design the identification or draft the prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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.