Agent skill

Aejpol Topic Selection

by brycewang-stanford in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J.

MITAuto-check passed

Install Aejpol Topic Selection

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-topic-selection -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejpol-topic-selection --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/AEJ-Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/aejpol-topic-selection .claude/skills/aejpol-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
aejpol-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
717 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J.

  • Works in 2 steps: A real policy lever. A specific… → A counterfactual / welfare reading. What…
  • Deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Policy bar — lead…, Checklist and Anti-patterns, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aejpol Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J. Public Economics, AEJ: Applied, or AER, and when sharpening the policy question and its welfare stake for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript. Frames fit and the policy-question-first contribution; it does not design the identification or run estimation.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The repository describes itself as: Journal-specific Claude Code/Codex skill packs covering mainstream journals — AER, QJE, Nature, Cell, 管理世界, 经济研究 & 200+ more — your fast track to getting published. | 覆盖主流期刊的… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J

Example prompts

  • “/aejpol-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. A real policy lever. A specific instrument someone could pull — a credit, a tax schedule, an eligibility rule, an emissions standard, a…
  2. A counterfactual / welfare reading. What changes, for whom, and is it worth it — a cost-benefit ratio, a marginal-value-of-public-funds…

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Aejpol Topic Selection loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 88 tokens; SKILL.md has 717 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~88
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 717 words, ~1,463 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejpol-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejpol-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J. Public Economics, AEJ: Applied, or AER, and when sharpening the policy question and its welfare stake for an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript. Frames fit and the policy-question-first contribution; it does not design the identification or run estimation.

Topic Selection & Policy-Question Fit (aejpol-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a clean empirical result but are unsure it is "an AEJ: Policy paper"
  • The project could plausibly go to J. Public Economics, AEJ: Applied, or AER and you must pick
  • A referee or colleague says the question is "narrow," "not a policy paper," or "so what?"
  • You can state a finding but not yet a policy question with a welfare / cost-benefit / distributional stake

The AEJ: Policy bar — lead with the policy question

AEJ: Policy publishes the economic analysis OF policy: a paper is built around a policy question ("should this tax / mandate / subsidy / regulation exist, expand, or change, and at what welfare cost?") whose answer carries a welfare, cost-benefit, or distributional implication of broad interest to the AEA readership. Two halves must both be present from the first page:

  1. A real policy lever. A specific instrument someone could pull — a credit, a tax schedule, an eligibility rule, an emissions standard, a transfer, a mandate, an enforcement regime. Not just "an interesting natural experiment."
  2. A counterfactual / welfare reading. What changes, for whom, and is it worth it — a cost-benefit ratio, a marginal-value-of-public-funds (MVPF), an incidence/distributional split, or a calibrated welfare number. A clean estimate with no policy reading is off-fit.
Policy areas in scope

Public economics & taxation · environmental & energy · health · education · labor & social insurance · regulation & antitrust · development policy · political economy of policy. Empirical (quasi-experimental / RCT) and applied-theory work both fit — provided the policy question and welfare relevance are explicit.

Fit decision table (route by the dominant pull)
If the paper is mainly…It belongs at…Tell
broad-interest policy question + credible causal evidence + welfare readingAEJ: Policythe policy lesson is the headline
a deep field-public-finance contribution for specialistsJ. Public Economicsbroad readership would not follow the "so what"
identification-driven applied micro with no policy lever / welfare claimAEJ: Appliedthe natural experiment, not a policy, is the point
a first-order, general-interest result warranting top-5 lengthAERthe contribution is larger and longer than a field-leading policy paper

Checklist

  • The policy lever is named in one sentence (instrument + who is affected)
  • The policy question is stated as a question with a welfare/cost-benefit/distributional stake
  • The counterfactual is concrete (what the policy is compared against)
  • Broad-interest test passed: a non-specialist AEA reader sees why it matters
  • Sibling check done (not JPubE field-only / not AEJ:Applied no-policy / not AER-scale)
  • You can name the welfare object you will eventually report (MVPF, cost-per-X, incidence)
Show full SKILL.md (308 more words)Show less

Anti-patterns

  • "We exploit a clean natural experiment" with no policy the experiment evaluates (reads as AEJ: Applied)
  • A field-public-finance result with no broad-interest framing (reads as J. Public Economics)
  • A descriptive or correlational "policy-relevant" topic with no credible counterfactual
  • Promising a welfare/cost-benefit reading you have no way to compute
  • Leading with the dataset or method instead of the policy question

Three questions that decide fit fast

Before investing in a draft, answer these in one sentence each; a "no" or "I can't" on any is a fit problem:

  1. The lever test — can you name the instrument a decision-maker would pull? (If it is "a shock," not a policy, lean AEJ: Applied.)
  2. The welfare test — can you name the welfare object you will report (MVPF, cost-per-X, incidence)? (If not, the policy "so what" is missing.)
  3. The broad-interest test — would a non-specialist AEA reader, not just the field, care about the answer? (If only the field cares, lean JPubE.)

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft estimates that a state's expansion of a childcare subsidy raised maternal employment. As "we find subsidy → employment" it is a clean applied-micro result (AEJ: Applied). Reframed for AEJ: Policy: "Is expanding the childcare subsidy a cost-effective way to raise maternal labor supply, and who bears the cost?" — now the employment elasticity feeds a cost-per-additional-worker and an incidence split across income groups (illustrative), and the paper has a policy lever, a counterfactual, and a welfare reading.

Referee pushback mapped to the fix

  • "Better suited to a field journal." → Sharpen the broad-interest framing; lead with the policy lesson, not the institutional detail.
  • "This is just a clean natural experiment." → Name the policy the experiment evaluates and the welfare object; if there is none, reconsider the target.
  • "Interesting but so what for policy?" → Add the cost-benefit / incidence reading to the abstract, not the conclusion.

Output format

【Policy lever】instrument + affected population (one sentence)
【Policy question】stated as a question with a welfare/cost-benefit/distributional stake
【Counterfactual】what the policy is compared against
【Welfare object to report】MVPF / cost-per-X / incidence / calibrated welfare
【Fit verdict】AEJ: Policy vs JPubE / AEJ:Applied / AER + one-line reason
【Next step】aejpol-literature-positioning

© brycewang-stanford, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in AEJ-Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/aejpol-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

Compare with similar skills

Aejpol Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Aejpol Topic Selection compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Aejpol Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills1.2k—~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Aej Economic Policyfranklee16/academic-research-skills2231 repos~1.6kAutomated safety check: PassNone
Implementing Policy As Code With Open Policy Agentmukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills34k—~2.6kAutomated safety check: NotesApache-2.0
Economic Policyfranklee16/academic-research-skills2231 repos~1.5kAutomated safety check: PassNone
Policy Acknowledgementsickn33/agentic-awesome-skills47k1 repos~3.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Privacy Policythedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist74k—~617Automated safety check: PassMIT

Similar skills

  • Aej Economic Policy

    franklee16/academic-research-skills

    A skill your agent uses when targeting American Economic Journal: Economic Policy or deciding whether a policy-relevant applied economics manuscript fits this venue.

    223 GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~1.6k tokens
    Research & ScienceAuto-check passed
  • Implementing Policy As Code With Open Policy Agent

    mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills

    Implements policy-as-code enforcement with Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper for Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines, covering writing Rego policies, deploying OPA Gatekeeper as a Kubernetes…

    34k GitHub stars~2.6k tokensUpdated 1 mo ago
    DevOps & CloudAuto-check: notes
  • Economic Policy

    franklee16/academic-research-skills

    A skill your agent uses when targeting Economic Policy or deciding whether a policy-oriented economics manuscript fits this venue.

    223 GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~1.5k tokens
    Auto-check passed
  • Policy Acknowledgement

    sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

    Policy acknowledgement register: employee, policy and version, sent and due dates, acknowledged date and flag, days overdue, reminder sent and status.

    47k GitHub starsUsed in 1 repo~3.4k tokens
    Auto-check passed
  • Privacy Policy

    thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

    A skill your agent uses when reviewing whether a website has a visible, accessible privacy policy link, particularly in the footer navigation.

    74k GitHub stars~617 tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    Legal & ComplianceAuto-check passed
  • Editorial Policy

    thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist

    A skill your agent uses when auditing a blog, news site, or YMYL content site for trust signals, drafting editorial policy page content, or evaluating whether a site meets Google's quality rater…

    74k GitHub stars~763 tokensUpdated 2 days ago
    Auto-check passed

More from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

All 2,387 skills in this repo
  • Aaag Data Analysis

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when running and reporting the analysis for an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial statistics and modeling, remote-sensing accuracy, or…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Aaag Literature Positioning

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when positioning an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript in the literature — engaging geographic scholarship across the relevant area and the…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Aaag Rebuttal

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when responding to an Annals of the American Association of Geographers decision letter (major/minor revision) — building a point-by-point response to the subject editor and…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Aaag Research Design

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when defending the research design of an Annals of the American Association of Geographers manuscript — spatial/quantitative analysis and GIScience, remote-sensing and…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.4k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Aaag Review Process

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when you need to understand how the Annals of the American Association of Geographers evaluates a manuscript — double-anonymous review routed through a subject editor by…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.3k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed
  • Aaag Submission

    brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

    A skill your agent uses when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Annals of the American Association of Geographers via ScholarOne Manuscripts — area/article-type selection…

    1.2k GitHub stars~1.6k tokensUpdated 12 days ago
    Auto-check passed

Questions about Aejpol Topic Selection

What does Aejpol Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J. Aejpol Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J.

When should I use Aejpol Topic Selection?

Aejpol Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a project fits AEJ: Economic Policy rather than J.

How do I install Aejpol Topic Selection in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/aejpol-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/aejpol-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Aejpol Topic Selection in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (AEJ-Economic-Policy-Skills/skills/aejpol-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/aejpol-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Aejpol Topic Selection in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aejpol-topic-selection -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/aejpol-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/aejpol-topic-selection, .github/skills/aejpol-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/aejpol-topic-selection in your project.

What does Aejpol Topic Selection need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Aejpol Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.

Does Aejpol Topic Selection access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Aejpol Topic Selection safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Aejpol Topic Selection use?

Aejpol Topic Selection is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Aejpol Topic Selection use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Aejpol Topic Selection?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Aejpol Topic Selection: Aej Economic Policy (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars), Implementing Policy As Code With Open Policy Agent (mukul975/Anthropic-Cybersecurity-Skills, 34k stars), Economic Policy (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars) and Policy Acknowledgement (sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills, 47k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Aejpol Topic Selection?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,228 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.