From restud-skills
Routes 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.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/restud-skills:restud-workflowThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill — it tells you which one to use next, and in what order.
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill — it tells you which one to use next, and in what order.
Default assumption: unless the user names a different venue, the manuscript targets The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) — a top-5 general-interest journal (OUP, for the Review of Economic Studies Ltd; founded 1933 to advance theoretical and applied economics equally, especially by younger economists). REStud prizes a clean, original contribution — a new model, a new identification strategy, or a striking new empirical fact — presented rigorously and economically. It is not a finance-only stack, not a theory-only stack, and not a working-paper repository.
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Idea is fuzzy; the one-sentence contribution will not compress | restud-topic-selection |
| Related-work positioning is thin; closest papers not confronted | restud-literature-positioning |
| Empirical design is the bottleneck (DID / IV / RDD / RCT / structural) | restud-identification |
| The paper is theory or has a model whose proofs need an online appendix | restud-theory-model |
| Main results exist but referee-anticipating checks are missing or fragile | restud-robustness |
| Tables are oversized / footnote-bloated; figures do not carry the result | restud-tables-figures |
| Prose is bloated; abstract over length; contribution buried | restud-writing-style |
| Preparing the data/code deposit or auditing reproducibility | restud-replication-package |
| Want to anticipate who referees and what they will demand | restud-referee-strategy |
| Final preflight before clicking submit (format, length, anonymity) | restud-submission |
| A referee report / R&R arrived and a response letter is needed | restud-rebuttal |
For a typical REStud-track manuscript, prefer this order:
restud-topic-selection — fix the one-sentence original contribution before anything elserestud-literature-positioning — locate the contribution against the closest 3–5 papersrestud-identification — for empirical papers, stress-test the design; if it fails here, no later skill saves the paperrestud-theory-model — for theory papers (or empirical papers with a model), build the model and route proofs to the online appendixrestud-robustness — anticipate the checks the demanding median REStud referee will requirerestud-tables-figures — finalize exhibits so each one carries a resultrestud-writing-style — only now polish prose, abstract, and introductionrestud-replication-package — assemble the deposit while results are fresh in coderestud-referee-strategy — map the likely referee pool and pre-empt objectionsrestud-submission — final preflight: length, anonymity, format, filesrestud-rebuttal — after review, revise the manuscript first, then write the letter
restud-identificationandrestud-theory-modelare parallel branches: empirical papers lean on the first, theory papers on the second, and many REStud papers (theory-with-empirics) need both.restud-writing-styleis a late polish — do not run it before the contribution and design are stable.
If the user says...
restud-topic-selectionrestud-literature-positioningrestud-identificationrestud-theory-modelrestud-robustnessrestud-tables-figuresrestud-writing-stylerestud-replication-packagerestud-referee-strategyrestud-submissionrestud-rebuttalREStud overlaps heavily with AER / QJE / JPE / Econometrica in standards, but its center of gravity differs:
If the paper is finance-specific (JF / JFE / RFS) or theory so abstract it is really a math paper, a different stack fits better.
restud-writing-style) before the identification or model is stablerestud-theory-model as optional for an empirical paper that has a model — REStud referees check that the model's assumptions map to the empiricsrestud-referee-strategy because "the design is obviously fine" — REStud referees are demanding and develop strong papers across roundsWhenever this skill is invoked, end with:
NEXT SKILL: <restud-skill-name>
REASON: <one sentence>
INPUTS NEEDED: <artifacts the next skill needs>
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