A skill your agent uses when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from…

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Install Jegeo Theory Model

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-theory-model -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jegeo-theory-model --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-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-theory-model .claude/skills/jegeo-theory-model && 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
jegeo-theory-model
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
858 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from…

  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Two modes of theorizing —…, The bridge move (what wins at… and Checklist, plus 5 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jegeo Theory Model is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from human geography. Makes the mechanism legible to both communities; it does not invent results.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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.

Example prompts

  • “/jegeo-theory-model”

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

Jegeo Theory Model loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 858 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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). 858 words, ~1,805 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jegeo-theory-model/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jegeo-theory-model
description
Use when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from human geography. Makes the mechanism legible to both communities; it does not invent results.

Theory and Model Craft (jegeo-theory-model)

When to trigger

  • The empirics are strong but there is no mechanism — just a gravity structure or a set of correlations with space as a fixed effect
  • A formal NEG/quantitative-spatial model is in place but a geographer reviewer cannot see what economic-geography story it tells
  • A conceptual paper (evolutionary/institutional/relational) has rich theory but an economist reviewer cannot see a testable or generalizable claim
  • The model's spatial assumptions (mobility, trade costs, externality range, spatial scale) are buried or undefended

Two modes of theorizing — choose deliberately

JEG accepts both formal models and conceptual frameworks, but each must be made legible to the other community. Decide which mode you are in, then do the work that makes the other side trust it.

Mode A: Formal model (NEG / quantitative-spatial)

The lineage runs from core-periphery NEG (Krugman; Fujita-Krugman-Venables) to the estimable quantitative-spatial models (Redding-Rossi-Hansberg, Allen-Arkolakis, Donaldson-Hornbeck). A JEG formal model must:

  • Carry an economic-geography mechanism a geographer can name — agglomeration force vs. dispersion force, why firms/people locate where they do, what makes the equilibrium spatial. A black-box gravity equation with no told mechanism reads as econometrics, not economic geography.
  • State spatial assumptions explicitly: factor mobility, trade/commuting costs, the range over which externalities operate, and the spatial scale of the equilibrium. These are modeling choices with geographic content, not technicalities.
  • Discipline the counterfactual: be clear which spatial linkages drive the general-equilibrium result, and resist welfare claims the spatial structure cannot bear.
  • Map model objects to data so the identification skill has something to bite on.
Mode B: Conceptual framework (evolutionary / institutional / relational)

The lineage includes evolutionary economic geography (relatedness, branching, path dependence, regional resilience — Boschma, Frenken), institutional and relational approaches, and GPN/GVC theory (Coe, Yeung). A JEG conceptual contribution must:

  • Produce a generalizable claim, not a description — propositions, a typology, or a mechanism that travels beyond the motivating case.
  • Be falsifiable or at least testable in principle, so an economist sees a claim, not only a narrative.
  • Define its constructs operationally enough that someone could measure or observe them (what is relatedness, lock-in, embeddedness, in this paper).

The bridge move (what wins at JEG)

If you are a...The trust-building move the other community needs
formal modelername the agglomeration/dispersion mechanism in plain prose; tie a coefficient to a geographic story
conceptual theoristextract one testable proposition and operationalize one construct
empiricist with no modelinstall a minimal mechanism that organizes the regressions (why this sign, this scale)

Checklist

  • Mode chosen (formal vs. conceptual) and the mechanism stated in plain prose
  • Formal: agglomeration/dispersion forces named; spatial assumptions (mobility, costs, externality range, scale) explicit
  • Formal: counterfactual disciplined; which spatial linkages drive it is stated
  • Conceptual: a generalizable, testable-in-principle claim, not a description
  • Conceptual: key constructs operationally defined
  • Model objects map to data (or constructs map to observables)
  • A reader from the other community can restate the mechanism in one sentence

Anti-patterns

  • A gravity/quantitative-spatial structure presented with no economic-geography mechanism (econometrics in disguise)
  • A welfare counterfactual whose spatial linkages are never made transparent
  • A conceptual framework that only redescribes the case and yields no claim that travels
  • Constructs (relatedness, embeddedness, lock-in) invoked but never defined or operationalized
  • Treating the model as decoration bolted onto a finished empirical section
  • Spatial scale and externality range chosen implicitly, then never justified
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Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper estimates a quantitative-spatial model of remote-work adoption reshaping city systems. The math is clean but a geographer referee says it has no mechanism — agglomeration just falls out of the parameters. The fix is not more equations: it is one paragraph naming the force (face-to-face knowledge externalities weaken as remote work rises, so the dispersion force gains relative to the agglomeration force) and tying the key elasticity to that story. Now both communities read the same mechanism, and the counterfactual reallocation of activity across the urban hierarchy is interpretable rather than mechanical.

Referee pushback mapped to the model/frame fix

  • "This is just gravity — where is the economic geography?" → Add the prose mechanism (which agglomeration/dispersion force, why firms move) and tie a key coefficient to it.
  • "The welfare counterfactual is a black box." → Make transparent which spatial linkages and parameters drive it; show sensitivity to the most contestable one.
  • "Your framework only describes this case." → Extract a proposition that travels and state the conditions under which it should hold elsewhere.
  • "What exactly is 'embeddedness' here?" → Operationalize the construct: how would you observe or measure it, in this paper.
  • "The model is decoration." → Show the model organizing the empirics — predicting a sign, a scale, or a heterogeneity the regressions then test.

Spatial scale and externality range are theoretical choices

A recurring JEG-specific failure is treating the spatial scale of the equilibrium and the range over which an externality operates as data-handling details. They are theoretical commitments: a knowledge spillover that matters within 25km implies a different model — and a different unit of analysis — than one operating at the regional scale. State these ranges as part of the theory, justify them, and make sure the empirical scale matches the theorized range. A model whose externality is "local" but whose data are national is internally inconsistent, and both communities will notice.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Economic Geography
【Skill】jegeo-theory-model
【Mode】formal (NEG/quantitative-spatial) / conceptual (EEG/institutional/GPN)
【Mechanism in plain prose】one sentence both communities can restate
【Spatial assumptions / constructs】mobility, costs, externality range, scale | or defined constructs
【Counterfactual / generalizable claim】what it supports, what it does not
【Model→data (or construct→observable)】mapping
【Next skill】jegeo-robustness

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-theory-model of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jegeo Theory Model

What does Jegeo Theory Model do?

A skill your agent uses when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from…. Jegeo Theory Model is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the model or conceptual frame is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — NEG / quantitative-spatial models OR conceptual frameworks from human geography.

How do I install Jegeo Theory Model in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-theory-model -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-theory-model in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jegeo-theory-model in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jegeo Theory Model in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-theory-model -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Economic-Geography-Skills/skills/jegeo-theory-model in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jegeo-theory-model in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jegeo Theory Model 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 jegeo-theory-model -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jegeo-theory-model, .gemini/skills/jegeo-theory-model, .github/skills/jegeo-theory-model and .opencode/skills/jegeo-theory-model in your project.

What does Jegeo Theory Model need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jegeo Theory Model is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jegeo Theory Model 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 Jegeo Theory Model 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 Jegeo Theory Model use?

Jegeo Theory Model 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 Jegeo Theory Model use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k 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 Jegeo Theory Model?

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.

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