From restat-skills
Routes manuscript work for The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) submissions, directing users to the appropriate restat-* sub-skill based on current stage or bottleneck.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/restat-skills:restat-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 restat-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at *The Review of Economics and Statistics* (REStat) — the venerable MIT Press journal **edited at the Harvard Kennedy School** (founded 1917/1919; current title since 1948). REStat publishes **applied economics and applied econometrics**: it rewards **credible causal identification, care...
This is the router. It tells you which restat- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) — the venerable MIT Press journal edited at the Harvard Kennedy School (founded 1917/1919; current title since 1948). REStat publishes applied economics and applied econometrics: it rewards credible causal identification, careful measurement, and quantitative evidence across labor, public, development, trade, IO, health, environment, urban, and macro-empirics. It is empirical-first — a clean research design or a measurement advance is the contribution; theory interprets, it does not lead.
Operational tells that you are at REStat and not a sibling: REStat values measurement and applied econometrics, not pure methods development (that is J. Econometrics); it is broad applied econ, wider than a field journal but more specialized than AER. Submission is via Editorial Express with a nonrefundable submission fee (US$125; source map refreshed 2026-06-20); review is editor-managed peer review; accepted empirical papers must deposit data and code to the REStat Harvard Dataverse under the journal's Data and Code Availability Policy. Editors as of the 2026-06-20 refresh: Will Dobbie (Harvard) and Raymond Fisman (Boston U), co-chairs.
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Unsure the paper fits REStat vs AER / AEJ:Applied / J. Econometrics / a field journal | restat-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the closest prior work is fuzzy or undersold | restat-literature-positioning |
| Causal design / measurement strategy is the bottleneck | restat-identification |
| Theory is overgrown or absent; unclear how much model to carry | restat-theory-model |
| Headline estimate's stability under specs/sample/inference is untested | restat-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense; the main result is not legible in one table/figure | restat-tables-figures |
| The question + estimate do not land in the first paragraph | restat-writing-style |
| Need the Harvard Dataverse data/code package + README | restat-replication-package |
| Want to pre-empt the objections this design invites | restat-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via Editorial Express; need a preflight | restat-submission |
| Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy | restat-rebuttal |
restat-topic-selection — lock the applied question and REStat fitrestat-literature-positioning — stake the marginal contributionrestat-identification — make the causal design / measurement crediblerestat-theory-model — right-size theory to interpret the estimaterestat-robustness — show the headline survives specs, sample, inferencerestat-tables-figures — make the result legible in one exhibitrestat-writing-style — land question + estimate early (intro last)restat-replication-package — assemble the Harvard Dataverse packagerestat-referee-strategy — pre-empt design-specific objectionsrestat-submission — Editorial Express preflightrestat-rebuttal — after the R&R
restat-writing-styleis a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification and robustness settle.
restat-replication-package until acceptance — REStat's Data and Code Availability Policy and Harvard Dataverse deposit are part of the path to publication, not an afterthoughtrestat-tables-figures polish exhibits while the identification is still movingREStat spans several applied archetypes, and the bottleneck differs. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.
| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |
|---|---|---|
| applied-micro causal design (DID / RD / IV) | heterogeneity-robust estimator + clean design | restat-identification |
| measurement / new data or index | construct validity + measurement-error discipline | restat-identification → restat-robustness |
| trade / IO / spatial (shift-share) | exposure-design inference + exogeneity of shares/shocks | restat-identification |
| structural-light applied | how much model to carry without becoming method-first | restat-theory-model |
A user says: "My DID on a staggered state policy estimates fine, but a referee says TWFE is biased and the measure of my outcome is noisy." That is two distinct REStat pushbacks — heterogeneity-biased estimator (owned by restat-identification, Branch DID) and measurement error in the outcome (a REStat-signature concern, addressed in restat-identification measurement + restat-robustness). Route to restat-identification first; only once the headline effect is stable under Callaway–Sant'Anna and an attenuation correction do you return to restat-tables-figures and restat-rebuttal.
if decision_letter_arrived: -> restat-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit: -> restat-submission
elif anticipating_referees: -> restat-referee-strategy
elif need_data_code_package: -> restat-replication-package
elif exhibits_dense: -> restat-tables-figures
elif headline_not_robust: -> restat-robustness
elif theory_mis-sized: -> restat-theory-model
elif identification_or_measurement_shaky: -> restat-identification
elif contribution_fuzzy: -> restat-literature-positioning
else: -> restat-topic-selection
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin restat-skillsRoutes manuscript work for The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) from topic selection through rebuttal. Invokes the appropriate restud-* sub-skill based on the current stage.
Evaluates manuscript fit for Review of Economics and Statistics, including identification bar, house style, and desk-reject risks.
Routes between joe-* sub-skills for Journal of Econometrics manuscript workflow, from topic selection through revision rebuttal. Activates when deciding which specialized skill to invoke next.