From jde-skills
Polishes prose for Journal of Development Economics manuscripts so the development question, answer, and policy stakes land for a field audience. A late-stage polish for when identification and contribution are settled.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jde-skills:jde-writing-styleThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The abstract states a setting but not a finding with a magnitude
JDE readers are development economists; the writing has to make a first-order development question and its answer land quickly, with policy stakes explicit. Principles:
Hypothetical: a cluster-randomized teacher-incentive experiment in a low-income setting.
| Referee/editor reaction | The JDE-prose fix |
|---|---|
| "The abstract states a topic, not a finding" | Lead with the headline effect in welfare-relevant units |
| "A survey delayed the question" | Open paragraph one with the development question itself |
| "Is 0.16 SD meaningful?" | Anchor to a policy benchmark (years of learning, cost) |
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the development constraint, identification, welfare or distribution margin, and implementation context; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: development economists who expect a development mechanism, credible design, and policy-relevant external validity.
claim / evidence / risk / manuscript location rows, so the next agent can edit rather than rediscover the issue.resources/official-source-map.md has been checked for volatile rules and the manuscript has one concrete fix for the largest venue-specific risk.【Abstract】states finding + magnitude in welfare units? [Y/N]
【Intro arc】question → stakes → design → result → contribution? [Y/N]
【Policy framing】effects in comparable units? [Y/N]
【Language】consistent US or UK English? [Y/N]
【Citations】consistent author-date? [Y/N]
【Next step】jde-replication-and-data-policy
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