From english-socsci-journal-skills
Evaluates manuscript fit for Review of Economics and Statistics, including identification bar, house style, and desk-reject risks.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/english-socsci-journal-skills:review-of-economics-and-statisticsThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
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. Th...
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.
../../resources/source-basis.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked.american-economic-review, quarterly-journal-of-economics, or journal-of-political-economy; one crisp result → aer-insights.aej-applied-economics; policy-relevant magnitudes → aej-economic-policy.aej-macroeconomics; a genuine new estimator with full theory → econometrica or journal-of-econometrics.journal-of-labor-economics, journal-of-public-economics, journal-of-health-economics).[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Review of Economics and Statistics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the identification / measurement clear the applied-econometrics bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / fee / JEL / length format / data-code policy>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin english-socsci-journal-skillsHelps authors assess manuscript fit for the Journal of Applied Econometrics, including framing, method/evidence bar, house style, and desk-reject heuristics.
Helps decide whether an applied-economics project fits REStat vs other top journals and sharpen the question for REStat's empirical standards.
Creates bite-sized, testable implementation plans from specs or requirements, with file structure and task decomposition. Activates before coding multi-step tasks.