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Routes manuscript workflow for Journal of Urban Economics submissions, directing users to the appropriate jue-* sub-skill based on current stage or symptom.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/jue-skills:jue-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
This is the router. It tells you **which jue-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at the *Journal of Urban Economics* (JUE) — the **Elsevier** field flagship for urban & regional economics, founded in 1974 by Edwin Mills and described as "the premier journal in the field." JUE rewards papers whose question is genuinely **spatial**: agglomeration economies, housing supply ...
This is the router. It tells you which jue- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) — the Elsevier field flagship for urban & regional economics, founded in 1974 by Edwin Mills and described as "the premier journal in the field." JUE rewards papers whose question is genuinely spatial: agglomeration economies, housing supply & real estate, local labor markets, commuting & transportation, land use & zoning, local public finance & Tiebout sorting, neighborhood effects, spatial sorting, urban growth, and place-based policy. The bar is a credible spatial identification married to a clear urban mechanism — not just a national-level result run on geographic data.
Operational tells that you are at JUE and not a sibling: single-anonymized (single-blind) review via Editorial Manager; a US$100 nonrefundable submission fee paid during submission (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准); a mandatory replication policy (data + code deposited to a major repository at acceptance, before publication); a short-paper track, JUE: Insights (≤6,000 words, ≤5 exhibits); co-editors-in-chief Nathaniel Baum-Snow (Toronto) and Kristian Behrens (UQÀM) (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the official Elsevier/ScienceDirect pages.
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Question is not clearly spatial / fit with JUE vs a sibling is uncertain | jue-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the urban-econ frontier is fuzzy or undersold | jue-literature-positioning |
| The spatial causal design (boundary RD, shift-share, place-based DiD) is shaky | jue-identification |
| The mechanism needs a spatial-equilibrium or sorting model to interpret | jue-theory-model |
| Results may be spatial-autocorrelation-, sorting-, or sample-sensitive | jue-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense; the paper has no map; spatial pattern is invisible | jue-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the spatial mechanism; intro/abstract do not land | jue-writing-style |
| Geocoded/restricted data deposit, README, repository prep | jue-replication-package |
| Likely referee objections should be anticipated before submission | jue-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via Editorial Manager; need a preflight | jue-submission |
| An R&R arrived; need a response-letter strategy | jue-rebuttal |
jue-topic-selection → jue-literature-positioning → jue-identification → jue-theory-model → jue-robustness → jue-tables-figures → jue-writing-style → jue-replication-package → jue-referee-strategy → jue-submission → jue-rebuttal
jue-writing-styleis late-stage polish — do not rewrite the intro before identification and the spatial mechanism settle. Startjue-replication-packageearly if data is geocoded or restricted; the deposit is harder than it looks.
JUE spans several spatial sub-fields and the binding constraint differs by archetype. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.
| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |
|---|---|---|
| housing supply / real estate prices | spatial sorting & supply-elasticity identification | jue-identification |
| agglomeration / productivity | reverse causality + Bartik/historical-IV exogeneity | jue-identification |
| place-based policy evaluation | boundary discontinuity or DiD with spatial spillovers (SUTVA) | jue-identification → jue-robustness |
| neighborhood effects / mobility | selection into neighborhoods; MTO-style design | jue-identification |
| quantitative spatial model (QSM) | what data identifies the structural parameters | jue-theory-model |
| transportation / commuting | network endogeneity; market-access measurement | jue-identification |
A user says: "My paper shows a new rail line raised nearby house prices, but a referee says the price jump could be sorting of richer households into the corridor, and the control areas may be contaminated by displaced demand." That is two distinct JUE pushbacks — spatial sorting/selection and SUTVA/spillover contamination of controls — both owned by jue-identification (design) and jue-robustness (spatial-spillover sensitivity, donut controls). Route to jue-identification first; only once the capitalization estimate is defended (say it settles at 4.5%, illustrative) return to jue-tables-figures for the map and jue-rebuttal.
jue-identification (Conley/spatial-cluster SEs), jue-robustness (cutoff sensitivity), and jue-tables-figures (reporting). Do not treat it as a one-time fix.jue-topic-selection (feasibility), jue-replication-package (deposit), and jue-submission (cover-letter exemption). Decide it early, not at acceptance.if decision_letter_arrived: -> jue-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit: -> jue-submission
elif anticipating_referees: -> jue-referee-strategy
elif data_is_geocoded_or_restricted: -> jue-replication-package
elif exhibits_have_no_map: -> jue-tables-figures
elif spatial_robustness_open: -> jue-robustness
elif need_spatial_model: -> jue-theory-model
elif identification_shaky: -> jue-identification
elif claim_or_positioning_fuzzy: -> jue-literature-positioning
else: -> jue-topic-selection
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