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Aejpol Writing Style

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

A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy…

MITAuto-check passedWriting & Content

Install Aejpol Writing Style

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills aejpol-writing-style --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-writing-style .claude/skills/aejpol-writing-style && 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-writing-style
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
647 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy…

  • Works in 4 steps: Open with the policy question, not the… → Put the headline estimate, with its… → Translate into a policy takeaway — the… → …
  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The AEJ: Policy introduction arc, Translating estimates into… and AEA house style, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Aejpol Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming. Shapes the policy-first narrative and house style; it does not design identification or build the welfare model.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Writing & Content, covering Brand voice and tone. 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

  • Tasks that involve Brand voice and tone

Example prompts

  • “/aejpol-writing-style”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Open with the policy question, not the dataset or estimator. A non-specialist AEA reader should know within two sentences what policy is…
  2. Put the headline estimate, with its uncertainty, on page one — in policy-interpretable units (a percentage-point effect, a…
  3. Translate into a policy takeaway — the cost-benefit / MVPF / incidence reading — and state it as the contribution.
  4. Calibrate the claim. Say exactly what the estimand is, for whom, and the conditions under which the lesson holds. The credibility of an…

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 Writing Style loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 647 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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). 647 words, ~1,351 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/aejpol-writing-style/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
aejpol-writing-style
description
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming. Shapes the policy-first narrative and house style; it does not design identification or build the welfare model.

Writing Style — From Estimate to Policy Takeaway (aejpol-writing-style)

When to trigger

  • The intro buries the policy question under data or method
  • The abstract reports a coefficient but no policy lesson
  • The paper has a clean estimate but no sentence a policymaker could act on — or it overclaims
  • You are polishing for submission and need AEA house tone

Late-stage polish: do not rewrite the intro until identification (aejpol-identification), the welfare bridge (aejpol-theory-model), and robustness (aejpol-robustness) have settled.

The AEJ: Policy introduction arc

Policy question → why credible identification is hard → the design that delivers it → headline causal estimate (with SE/CI) → welfare / cost-benefit / distributional reading → concrete, calibrated policy lesson → brief roadmap.

The distinctive moves vs. a general applied-micro intro:

  1. Open with the policy question, not the dataset or estimator. A non-specialist AEA reader should know within two sentences what policy is at stake and why the answer matters.
  2. Put the headline estimate, with its uncertainty, on page one — in policy-interpretable units (a percentage-point effect, a cost-per-outcome), never an asterisk.
  3. Translate into a policy takeaway — the cost-benefit / MVPF / incidence reading — and state it as the contribution.
  4. Calibrate the claim. Say exactly what the estimand is, for whom, and the conditions under which the lesson holds. The credibility of an AEJ: Policy paper rests as much on not overclaiming as on the estimate.

Translating estimates into policy language without overclaiming

  • Convert coefficients into decision-relevant quantities ("a $1,000 expansion raises take-up by X and costs $Y per additional recipient") rather than leaving them as elasticities.
  • Tie magnitude to a benchmark a policymaker recognizes (the program's budget, the status-quo level, a comparable policy).
  • Hedge precisely, not vaguely: state the population the estimate applies to, the time horizon, and the assumptions the welfare reading needs. Replace "this shows policy X is good" with "for this population and horizon, the marginal dollar of X returns $Z, assuming [stated condition]."
  • Separate what the data show (the causal estimate) from what the framework adds (the welfare reading) so a referee can grant one without the other.

AEA house style

  • Author–year citations; SEs/CIs not asterisks (mirror aejpol-tables-figures); active voice; abstract that states question, design, headline estimate, and policy lesson. Online appendix carries the long material; the main text stays self-contained and readable. Review is single-blind, so the front matter names the authors — no need to anonymize the prose.
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Checklist

  • First two sentences state the policy question and why it matters
  • Headline estimate with SE/CI appears early, in policy-interpretable units
  • A one-sentence policy takeaway (cost-benefit / MVPF / incidence) is stated as the contribution
  • The claim is calibrated: population, horizon, and assumptions named
  • Causal estimate and welfare reading are separable in the prose
  • No significance asterisks; author–year citations; abstract carries the policy lesson
  • Self-citations cited normally (single-blind — no anonymization needed)

Anti-patterns

  • An intro that leads with the dataset, the institutional weeds, or the estimator
  • An abstract that ends at the coefficient with no policy lesson
  • Overclaiming ("our results prove policy X should be adopted nationwide") beyond the estimand
  • Vague hedging ("results should be interpreted with caution") instead of a precise scope statement
  • Burying the policy takeaway in the conclusion where a policymaker will not find it
  • Padding the prose with self-citations to signal a track record (cite only what the argument needs)

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before: "Using administrative data and a difference-in-differences design, we estimate the effect of the reform on enrollment; the coefficient is 0.06 (s.e. 0.01)." After (AEJ: Policy): "Does auto-enrollment raise retirement-plan participation enough to justify its administrative cost? Exploiting the staggered rollout across employers, we find auto-enrollment raises participation by 6 percentage points (90% CI [4, 8]). At the program's per-worker cost this implies roughly $X per additional participant — cost-effective relative to a matching subsidy for this low-saver population, though the gain is concentrated among workers who would not have opted in (illustrative)." Question first, estimate with CI, policy lesson, calibrated scope.

Output format

【Opening policy question】one sentence
【Headline estimate】value + SE/CI in policy units, stated early
【Policy takeaway】cost-benefit / MVPF / incidence sentence
【Calibration】population + horizon + assumptions named
【Overclaim check】claim ≤ what design+framework support? [Y/N]
【Next step】aejpol-replication-package or aejpol-referee-strategy

© 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-writing-style of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Aejpol Writing Style

What does Aejpol Writing Style do?

A skill your agent uses when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy…. Aejpol Writing Style is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming.

When should I use Aejpol Writing Style?

Aejpol Writing Style fits situations like: tasks that involve Brand voice and tone.

How do I install Aejpol Writing Style in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Aejpol Writing Style in Codex?

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

Can I use Aejpol Writing Style 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-writing-style -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-writing-style, .gemini/skills/aejpol-writing-style, .github/skills/aejpol-writing-style and .opencode/skills/aejpol-writing-style in your project.

What does Aejpol Writing Style need to run?

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

Does Aejpol Writing Style 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 Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

Aejpol Writing Style 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 Writing Style use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Aejpol Writing Style?

brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,231 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.