wber-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter. Plans defenses; it does not run new analysis.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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 (wber-referee-strategy) ## When to trigger - The paper is near submission and you want to surface objections before a referee does - You are writing the cover letter and choosing how to frame the contribution to the editor - You suspect one referee will be a hard-identification economist and another a policy reader - You want to decide which robustness checks to pre-load in the paper vs. hold for the response - You are unsure whether the framing will survive the "is this a World Bank paper?" reflex ## Who referees WBER — and what they punish WBER's review is **single-anonymized** (referees are anonymous; your name is on the title page), and editors (Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth, 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) draw on a development-economics referee pool that overlaps heavily with JDE, AEJ: Applied, and the AEA journals. Expect **two referee archetypes** and write for both: - **The identification referee** — sophisticated about staggered-DiD bias, weak IV, RD manipulation, attrition, spillovers. Punishes asserted exclusion restrictions, TWFE on staggered timing, and overreach beyond the estimand. - **The policy/development referee** — asks "so what for development
- When to trigger
- Who referees WBER — and what they punish
- The predictable WBER objections (pre-empt in the paper)
- The cover letter
- Pre-load vs. hold in reserve
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Self-citation and the single-anonymized reality
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Output format
What does the wber-referee-strategy skill do?
Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter. Plans defenses; it does not run new analysis.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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 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.