The Economic Journal Skills

Agent skill stack for manuscripts targeted at The Economic Journal (EJ) — the Royal Economic Society's flagship general-interest journal, founded 1891 and published by Oxford University Press, covering all fields of economics for a broad international readership. Twelve role skills span workflow routing, topic/fit selection, literature positioning, identification, theory/mechanism modeling, robust

by @brycewang-stanford 12 skills

Install

npx skillmds@latest add plugin:brycewang-stanford/the-economic-journal-skills

One command, no setup. In Claude Code it lands as a managed plugin you can enable, disable or remove with /plugin. On any other agent it installs the 12 skills into that agent's own folder.

Or inside Claude Code

In the Plugins tab, add this marketplace:

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/plugin install brycewang-stanford-the-economic-journal-skills@skillmd

Adds the marketplace once; later plugins need the second line only.

Or install by hand

Download the plugin and unzip its skills/ folder into your agent's skills directory. Works with every agent, no CLI needed.

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Just the markdown? SKILL.md files only.

This plugin

skills: 12
authors: 1

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Skills in this plugin

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Ecj Rebuttal · brycewang-stanford
Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) decision letter (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) has arrived and you need to draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan. Structures the response and the diff; it does not redo the analysis (route back to ecj-identification / ecj-theory-model / ecj-robustness first).

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Ecj Workflow · brycewang-stanford
Use when deciding which ecj-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a The Economic Journal (EJ) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

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Ecj Robustness · brycewang-stanford
Use when the main result of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript rests on a single specification and you need to pre-empt the alternative-explanation and fragility objections a demanding referee will raise. Builds the robustness battery and the falsification logic; it does not establish the primary identification (see ecj-identification).

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Ecj Submission · brycewang-stanford bundle
Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript via Editorial Express — single PDF format, author-date references, single-blind review, JEL codes and keywords, full-length vs. short-paper choice, submission-fee awareness, funding disclosure, and the RES/EJ data-and-code policy. Final mechanical gate; it does not improve the economic argument.

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Ecj Theory Model · brycewang-stanford
Use when a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript needs an explicit economic model or mechanism — either a theory paper's model, or the framework that gives a reduced-form empirical result its economic meaning. Builds and disciplines the economic argument; it does not run estimation (see ecj-identification).

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Ecj Writing Style · brycewang-stanford
Use when polishing the prose of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript into its clear, generalist-legible, economics-first register. Tightens voice, structure, and citation/format house style; it does not fix the economic argument itself (see ecj-theory-model / ecj-identification).

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Ecj Identification · brycewang-stanford
Use when the empirical identification strategy is the bottleneck for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — quasi-experimental designs (DID, IV, RDD, event study) or structural estimation. Stress-tests the design and its economic interpretation before drafting tables; it does not write the model from scratch (see ecj-theory-model).

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Ecj Tables Figures · brycewang-stanford
Use when finalizing the main exhibits (tables and figures) of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript so each one carries economic content, reads to a general audience, and is self-contained. Sets exhibit design and notes standards; it does not decide which results to report (see ecj-robustness).

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Ecj Topic Selection · brycewang-stanford
Use when scoping or framing a research question for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript and you need to test whether it is "EJ-shaped" — a substantial contribution of broad interest to economists at large, full-length or short-paper. Diagnoses fit and frames the contribution; it does not design the empirics.

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Ecj Referee Strategy · brycewang-stanford
Use when running a pre-submission pre-mortem on a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript to anticipate the broad-interest, identification, and mechanism objections a demanding general-interest referee will raise. Builds the threat list and pre-empts it; it does not write the R&R response (see ecj-rebuttal).

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Ecj Replication Package · brycewang-stanford
Use when assembling the data and code replication package for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript to the RES / EJ Data Editor standard (DCAS-endorsed, Zenodo deposit, reproducibility check before final acceptance). Builds the package and README; it does not run the analysis itself.

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Ecj Literature Positioning · brycewang-stanford
Use when writing or repairing the introduction and related-work framing for a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript — situating the contribution for a broad economics readership with author-date citations. Frames positioning and the intro arc; it does not run the empirics or build the model.

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