review-of-economics-and-statistics
Use when targeting Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) or deciding whether an applied econometrics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill review-of-economics-and-statistics --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.
# Review of Economics and Statistics (review-of-economics-and-statistics) ## Journal positioning REStat (Harvard/MIT, MIT Press) is a leading outlet for applied econometrics and empirical economics, with a long tradition in careful identification and measurement. It publishes sharply executed empirical papers across fields — often shorter and more focused than top-5 omnibus papers — where a clean design, careful measurement, or a useful applied-econometric contribution carries the work. The contribution is credible empirical evidence done well; the bar is high on identification and execution rather than on discipline-wide general interest. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the REStat / MIT Press site and the editorial submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names REStat as the target, or has a focused empirical paper that is excellent but narrower than a top-5 swing. - A paper's strength is careful identification or measurement rather than a discipline-wide general-interest hook. - A solid applied-econometrics or
- Journal positioning
- When to trigger
- Scope & topic fit
- Method & evidence bar
- Structure & house style
- Official-submission checklist
- Pre-submission self-check
- Common desk-reject triggers
- Re-routing decision
- Output format
What does the review-of-economics-and-statistics skill do?
Use when targeting Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) or deciding whether an applied econometrics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill review-of-economics-and-statistics --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.