From annual-review-of-economics-skills
Systematically gathers, reads, and synthesizes economic research for an Annual Review of Economics (ARE) review. Builds evidence corpus via snowballing, keyword/JEL-code sweeps, and saturation logging, then produces an evidence matrix for cross-study comparison.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/annual-review-of-economics-skills:arecon-literature-synthesisThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The invitation is secured and it is time to read the field thoroughly
An ARE review's credibility rests on the reader's belief that you read everything that matters — and ARE referees are often the very authors whose work is being weighed, so gaps are noticed. Build coverage systematically rather than from memory:
arecon-evidence-standards.Summarizing is restating each paper; synthesizing is making the papers talk to each other. Maintain an evidence matrix as you read:
| Column | What to capture |
|---|---|
| Study | author–year, the result you will cite it for |
| Question/estimand | exactly what it measures (so non-comparable studies are not pooled) |
| Method/data | design and sample (so you can weight credibility) |
| Finding | direction + magnitude (for who-found-what tables) |
| Credibility | identification strength, sample, robustness — your appraisal, since ARE runs no new estimates |
| Tension | which other studies it agrees/conflicts with, and why |
This matrix is the raw material for the organizing framework, the summary tables, and the even-handed treatment of controversies. Crucially, you appraise primary studies — you are the field's referee-of-record for adjacent readers — you do not re-estimate them.
Unlike a Handbook chapter (exhaustive) or a JEL survey (deeper and longer), an ARE review must stay readable by an outsider in ~25–40 pages (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). So the matrix serves a second purpose: it lets you cite the confirmatory tier in clusters while reserving prose for the field-defining work. Read exhaustively; write selectively. Coverage is proven by the citation set; accessibility is exercised in the prose.
【Seed set】<canonical + pitch references>
【Snowball status】backward/forward iterated to saturation? Y/N
【Databases swept】EconLit / RePEc / NBER / SSRN — by keyword + JEL code? Y/N
【Frontier + adjacency】recent WPs and bordering literatures included? Y/N
【Saturation evidence】<where searches stopped yielding new must-cites>
【Evidence matrix】rows ready with estimand / method / finding / appraisal / tension? Y/N
【Coverage risks】<any author/school an omission referee could name>
【Next step】→ arecon-organizing-framework (impose the analytical spine on the matrix)
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