jue-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the objections a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) referee will raise before submission, so the manuscript pre-empts them. Maps the recurring JUE spatial pushbacks to where each is answered in the paper; it does not run the analysis or draft the response letter (jue-rebuttal).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-referee-strategy --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.
# Referee Strategy (jue-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is close to submission and you want to pre-empt the predictable JUE objections - You suspect a referee will say "this is sorting, not the treatment" and the paper does not answer it - The control geography or spatial scale could be attacked and no pre-emptive check exists - You need to decide which referee concerns to answer in the paper vs. flag for the editor - A coauthor is over-confident that the design is bulletproof against spatial critiques ## The JUE referee reads for spatial credibility first A JUE referee is an urban economist who has seen every spatial confound. Before submission, walk the paper through the objections they reliably raise and confirm each is *already answered in the text*, not deferred to a hoped-for revision. | Predictable JUE referee objection | Where the paper must already answer it | |-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------| | "This is spatial **sorting/selection**, not the treatment." | `jue-identification` balance/composition + a placebo pre-trend; the prose says so | | "Your control areas are **contaminated by spillovers**." | spillover-rin
- When to trigger
- The JUE referee reads for spatial credibility first
- Strategy craft
- Two referee personas to write for
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Suggesting and excluding reviewers
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- The desk-reject gate is the first referee
- Output format
What does the jue-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating the objections a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) referee will raise before submission, so the manuscript pre-empts them. Maps the recurring JUE spatial pushbacks to where each is answered in the paper; it does not run the analysis or draft the response letter (jue-rebuttal).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-referee-strategy --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 984 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.