A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how…

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Install Jebo Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jebo-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/Journal-of-Economic-Behavior-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jebo-topic-selection .claude/skills/jebo-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
jebo-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
619 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 behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how…

  • Works in 3 steps: Behavioral content. Is there a genuine… → Generality of the lesson. JEBO is broad… → Method-fit, not method-purity. JEBO is…
  • Deciding whether a behavioral
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, What JEBO actually rewards, Sibling boundary — where JEBO… and Framing the hook, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jebo Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it. Sharpens scope and the behavioral hook; it does not invent evidence, editors, or citations.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k 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 Research & Science, covering Citation management. 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 behavioral
  • Organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet
  • How to frame it

Example prompts

  • “/jebo-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Behavioral content. Is there a genuine deviation from the rational-actor benchmark — a preference, belief, heuristic, or institutional…
  2. Generality of the lesson. JEBO is broad but not a field journal for one micro-topic. The mechanism should travel beyond the specific lab…
  3. Method-fit, not method-purity. JEBO is pluralist; the method is judged by how well it serves the behavioral question, not by whether it is…

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

Jebo Topic Selection loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 76 tokens; SKILL.md has 619 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~76
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k

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). 619 words, ~1,320 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jebo-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jebo-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it. Sharpens scope and the behavioral hook; it does not invent evidence, editors, or citations.

Topic Selection (jebo-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • You have a clean result but are unsure whether JEBO or a sibling (Experimental Economics, GEB, J. Economic Psychology, J. Public Economics) is the right home
  • The paper is a good causal study but the behavioral angle is thin or bolted on
  • A coauthor asks "is this behavioral enough for JEBO?"
  • The question is interesting but the audience that would cite it is unclear

What JEBO actually rewards

JEBO's organizing idea is economic behavior outside the frictionless, fully-rational benchmark: bounded rationality, social and other-regarding preferences, heuristics and biases, learning and adaptation, institutions and organizations as responses to behavioral constraints. A JEBO paper leads with a behavioral mechanism and uses whatever method (experiment, empirics, theory, simulation) best identifies it. The test is not "is the design clean?" but "does this teach us something about how real economic agents actually decide and organize?"

Run the topic through three filters, in order:

  1. Behavioral content. Is there a genuine deviation from the rational-actor benchmark — a preference, belief, heuristic, or institutional response — that the paper measures or models? If the behavioral element is decorative ("we add a behavioral interpretation in the discussion"), the paper belongs elsewhere.
  2. Generality of the lesson. JEBO is broad but not a field journal for one micro-topic. The mechanism should travel beyond the specific lab task or one dataset.
  3. Method-fit, not method-purity. JEBO is pluralist; the method is judged by how well it serves the behavioral question, not by whether it is the most fashionable estimator.

Sibling boundary — where JEBO ends and others begin

If the paper's real contribution is…Better home than JEBOWhy
A new experimental method / design (deception detection, elicitation tool) for its own sakeExperimental EconomicsESA outlet is method-of-experiment-focused; JEBO wants the behavioral economics the experiment reveals
A theorem about equilibrium, learning dynamics, or mechanism designGames and Economic BehaviorGEB is formal game theory; JEBO theory must yield a testable behavioral prediction
A psychology-first account (affect, personality, cognition) with light economic stakesJournal of Economic PsychologyJEBO keeps an economic decision/organization at the center
A clean policy-evaluation number where the behavioral story is secondaryAEJ: Applied / J. Public Economicsthose reward the causal estimand; JEBO rewards the mechanism behind it
A management/strategy contribution to organizational theoryManagement Science / AMJJEBO's "organization" is economic, behaviorally micro-founded

If two filters pass and the boundary table keeps the paper at JEBO, the topic fits. If only one passes, the paper is adjacent — reframe around the behavioral mechanism or redirect.

Show full SKILL.md (199 more words)Show less

Framing the hook

State the contribution as: "agents do X (a behavioral regularity) because of Y (mechanism), with consequence Z for markets/organizations/institutions." That sentence should survive deletion of the dataset name — if the paper collapses to "we ran an RCT and found an effect," the behavioral hook is missing.

Checklist

  • The behavioral mechanism (preference / belief / heuristic / institutional response) is named in one sentence, not implied
  • The lesson generalizes beyond the single task, sample, or institution studied
  • The method is justified by the question, not by fashion (experiment, empirics, theory, or simulation all welcome)
  • The sibling-boundary table places the paper at JEBO, not at ExpEcon / GEB / JEP / a policy journal
  • No fabricated editor, fee, or word limit; volatile facts marked 待核实

Anti-patterns

  • A clean causal study with a behavioral interpretation tacked on in the conclusion (desk-reject risk: "right method, wrong journal")
  • A pure experimental-method or pure game-theory contribution sent to JEBO because it "involves behavior"
  • A single-task lab result with no argument that the mechanism travels
  • Pitching to "the JEBO audience" generically without naming which segment (behavioral, experimental, organizational, evolutionary) would cite it
  • Claiming a process fact (e.g., "JEBO requires pre-registration") that the source map does not verify

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
【Skill】jebo-topic-selection
【Behavioral hook】agents do X because of Y, with consequence Z
【Archetype】experiment / observational / theory / simulation
【Fit verdict】fits JEBO / adjacent — reframe / redirect to <sibling>
【Sibling boundary】why not ExpEcon / GEB / JEP / policy journal
【Source status】verified / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】jebo-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 Journal-of-Economic-Behavior-and-Organization-Skills/skills/jebo-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jebo Topic Selection

What does Jebo Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how…. Jebo Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it.

When should I use Jebo Topic Selection?

Jebo Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a behavioral; organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet; how to frame it.

How do I install Jebo Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jebo Topic Selection in Codex?

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

Can I use Jebo 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 jebo-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/jebo-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/jebo-topic-selection, .github/skills/jebo-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/jebo-topic-selection in your project.

What does Jebo Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jebo 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 Jebo 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 Jebo Topic Selection use?

Jebo 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 Jebo Topic Selection use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.3k 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 Jebo Topic Selection?

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