jue-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a question is a genuinely spatial, urban-economics contribution that fits the Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) rather than a sibling venue. Locks the spatial question and outlet fit before positioning; it does not write the literature review or design the identification.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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 (jue-topic-selection) ## When to trigger - The question is interesting but it is unclear it is *spatial* — could it be a labor or public-finance paper that merely uses geographic data? - The paper sits on a boundary with **RSUE, Journal of Regional Science, JEG (OUP), or JPubE** and you must decide where it belongs - A reviewer or coauthor asks "why is this urban economics?" and the answer is thin - You have a clean result but no urban *mechanism* — only a geographic correlation - You are choosing between a full JUE article and the short-paper **JUE: Insights** track ## Is this a JUE paper? The spatial-mechanism test JUE publishes work where **space is constitutive of the economics**, not a label on the data. The question should turn on at least one spatial primitive: agglomeration economies, housing supply elasticity, land use & zoning, commuting/transportation, local public finance & Tiebout sorting, neighborhood effects, or spatial sorting/equilibrium. Run the manuscript through three gates: 1. **Mechanism gate.** Can you name a spatial mechanism — capitalization, agglomeration spillover, sorting across locations, congestion, market access — that *generates* th
- When to trigger
- Is this a JUE paper? The spatial-mechanism test
- Sibling-boundary decision table
- Choosing the article format
- What gets desk-rejected at JUE
- Timeliness and the JUE: Insights niche
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Data-availability shapes feasibility — decide early
- Output format
What does the jue-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a question is a genuinely spatial, urban-economics contribution that fits the Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) rather than a sibling venue. Locks the spatial question and outlet fit before positioning; it does not write the literature review or design the identification.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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.