restat-literature-positioning
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) manuscript against the closest prior work is fuzzy, generic, or oversold. Stakes the contribution precisely; it does not run analysis or write the full literature review.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-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 (restat-literature-positioning) ## When to trigger - The intro's "we contribute to several literatures" reads as a citation dump - A referee could ask "how is this different from [obvious prior paper]?" and you lack a one-line answer - The contribution is stated as a topic ("we study X") rather than a delta against named work - You are unsure whether your measurement / identification advance is genuinely new ## The REStat positioning bar REStat referees are applied economists who **know the closest five papers cold**. Positioning must be a **precise delta against named work**, not a tour of a literature. Because REStat prizes **measurement and credible identification**, the most persuasive deltas are of two kinds: (1) **identification delta** — your design credibly estimates a parameter prior work could only correlate or estimate under weaker assumptions; (2) **measurement delta** — you measure the object better (new data, less error, a validated index) and that *changes an applied conclusion*. "First to study" is rarely the contribution; "first to credibly identify / cleanly measure, and it overturns/sharpens [conclusion]" is. ## How to stake the contribut
- When to trigger
- The REStat positioning bar
- How to stake the contribution
- Positioning patterns that land at REStat
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette: turning a tour into a delta (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the restat-literature-positioning skill do?
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) manuscript against the closest prior work is fuzzy, generic, or oversold. Stakes the contribution precisely; it does not run analysis or write the full literature review.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-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.