50 Brycewang Aer Skills
by @brycewang-stanford · plugin · 7 skills
Nine-skill stack for top-5 economics manuscripts (AER / AER: Insights / AEJ): topic selection, modern causal identification (DiD / IV / RDD / SCM / Bartik), referee-anticipating robustness, Keith-Head-style introductions, AER booktabs tables, AEA Data and Code Availability deposits (openICPSR-ready), submission preflight, and R&R rebuttal letters. Ships Stata / R / Python templates and classic-AER
Install the whole plugin (CLI)
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-rebuttal
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-statspai
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-workflow
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-literature
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-paper-body
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-robustness
npx skillmds add brycewang-stanford/aer-submissionSkills in this plugin
- ▌ aer-rebuttal · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when responding to a Revise & Resubmit decision from AER, AER:Insights, or an AEJ, and a point-by-point response letter plus aligned manuscript revisions are needed. Handles triage, the concede / clarify / push-back decision, and the response-letter format that editors actually read.
- ▌ aer-statspai · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when aer-identification has fixed the design, after methodology choice and before aer-robustness or aer-tables-figures, to run an AER-track analysis with StatsPAI — the agent-native Python engine and MCP server for causal inference, robustness, sensitivity, and publication-ready table export.
- ▌ aer-workflow · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when deciding which AER-skills sub-skill to use next, before choosing a specialized skill or after a user asks how to sequence manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ journals. Routes — does not replace — the specialized skills.
- ▌ aer-literature · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when positioning a manuscript against the existing economics literature, building the antecedents map for the introduction, deciding what to cite, or verifying that every reference in the bibliography is real, correctly attributed, and cited to the published version. Apply at topic selection for the novelty scan and again before drafting the introduction.
- ▌ aer-paper-body · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when drafting or revising the body sections of an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ manuscript — institutional background, data, empirical strategy, results, mechanisms, and conclusion. Covers equation conventions, results-paragraph narration, magnitude interpretation, and back-of-envelope policy calculations. Apply after the empirics are stable and before or alongside aer-introduction.
- ▌ aer-robustness · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when the main empirical results exist but the manuscript lacks the robustness, heterogeneity, mechanism, and placebo checks that AER referees will demand. Apply after aer-identification and before aer-introduction so that the value-added paragraph can reference these tests.
- ▌ aer-submission · brycewang-stanford bundleUse when running the final pre-submission audit for an AER, AER:Insights, or AEJ manuscript — length, format, cover letter, per-author disclosure statements, file packaging, and routing among the AEA journal family. Apply immediately before clicking submit.