From jpube-skills
Assesses whether a research question fits the Journal of Public Economics by checking the government-role angle, JPubE pillar alignment, welfare interpretation, international readership, and policy stakes.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jpube-skills:jpube-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have data or a result but are unsure it is a *public-economics* paper
JPubE was founded in 1972 by Tony Atkinson to be the home for rigorous analysis of the economic role of government, and under current Editors Nathaniel Hendren and Wojciech Kopczuk it still rewards exactly that: a question about how government policy affects behavior, welfare, or the distribution of resources, answered with modern theory and quantitative methods and a lesson that travels to an international readership. A strong JPubE topic sits squarely in one of the field's pillars:
Treat this skill as an executable review pass, not a prose hint. First lock the policy instrument, affected margin, identification design, and welfare or incidence interpretation; then judge whether the current manuscript answers the venue's real reader: public economists who ask whether policy design, fiscal incidence, or welfare interpretation is credible.
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.【Question】one sentence (policy lever + margin)
【JPubE pillar】tax / social insurance / expenditure / externality / redistribution
【Welfare hook】DWL / MVPF / sufficient stat / incidence / none-yet
【International lesson】[...]
【Fit verdict】strong / borderline / off-fit
【Next step】jpube-contribution-framing
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jpube-skillsGuides authors on targeting the Journal of Public Economics: assesses topic fit, method bar, framing, and desk-reject risks for public-economics manuscripts.
Guides fit for AEJ: Economic Policy vs. alternative journals and sharpens the policy question with welfare stakes for a manuscript.
Scores a research question against JPE fit criteria: mechanism, theory linkage, generality, incentives/equilibrium, and importance. Helps route between JPE proper and its companion journals.