A skill your agent uses when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission.

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Install Jhe Referee Strategy

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-referee-strategy -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jhe-referee-strategy --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-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-referee-strategy .claude/skills/jhe-referee-strategy && rm -rf skills-src

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

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Facts

Skill name
jhe-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
995 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission.

  • Works in 5 steps: Rank the objections by how fatal they… → Write the introduction to answer the… → Pre-place the diagnostic exhibit. If a… → …
  • Pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Who reviews at JHE and how, The JHE referee pre-mortem… and How to use the pre-mortem, plus 8 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jhe Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission. Anticipates and disarms likely pushback; it does not draft the response letter after a decision (jhe-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.9k 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 Peer review. 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

  • Pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/jhe-referee-strategy”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Rank the objections by how fatal they are, and put the defense to the top one or two in the main text, not the appendix.
  2. Write the introduction to answer the first objection — if selection is the obvious worry, the intro should already gesture at how you…
  3. Pre-place the diagnostic exhibit. If a referee will ask for an event-study or a placebo, it should already be Figure 2.
  4. Name the sibling-journal reroute risk and disarm it with the contribution framing, so no referee suggests "send it elsewhere."
  5. Suggest referees thoughtfully if the system allows: experts who know the institution will judge the design fairly; avoid only…

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

Jhe Referee Strategy loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 995 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~78
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.9k

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). 995 words, ~1,887 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jhe-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jhe-referee-strategy
description
Use when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission. Anticipates and disarms likely pushback; it does not draft the response letter after a decision (jhe-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight.

Referee Strategy (jhe-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near-final and you want to find the objections before a referee does
  • You suspect a specific weakness (selection, concurrent policy, overclaiming) a health economist will name
  • You are choosing what to put in the main text versus the appendix to pre-empt pushback
  • You want to write the introduction so it answers the first question a JHE referee will ask

Who reviews at JHE and how

Review is single-anonymized (referees know the authors; you do not know them) and suitable papers typically go to at least two reviewers for independent expert assessment (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). The referees are health economists — they hold the field's canonical results and the institutional facts of the program/market you study. The implication for strategy: you cannot hide behind anonymity, and you cannot bluff institutions. Anticipate the health-econ-specific objection, not the generic one, and answer it in the paper before it is asked.

The JHE referee pre-mortem (objections in the order they arrive)

Likely objectionPre-empt by
"This is selection, not the effect you claim"model/bound the selection; show take-up vs. crowd-out vs. moral hazard separately
"Your policy variation is confounded by a concurrent reform"placebo on ineligible group/period; rule out simultaneous reforms explicitly in the institutional section
"Staggered DiD here is biased"heterogeneity-robust estimator + event-study leads + honest-DID bound already in the main text
"A coverage/utilization effect is not a welfare effect"add the demand-and-cost model that maps utilization to welfare; do not overclaim
"Health spending is skewed; OLS is wrong"defended two-part/GLM estimator with the zero mass shown
"Few states; your SEs are too small"wild-cluster bootstrap / randomization inference, clustering at the policy level
"This belongs in AJHE / Health Economics / JPubE"sharpen the health-econ contribution and the boundary in the intro
"Your data cannot be reproduced"honest DAS + shared code + access path (jhe-replication-package)

How to use the pre-mortem

  1. Rank the objections by how fatal they are, and put the defense to the top one or two in the main text, not the appendix.
  2. Write the introduction to answer the first objection — if selection is the obvious worry, the intro should already gesture at how you handle it.
  3. Pre-place the diagnostic exhibit. If a referee will ask for an event-study or a placebo, it should already be Figure 2.
  4. Name the sibling-journal reroute risk and disarm it with the contribution framing, so no referee suggests "send it elsewhere."
  5. Suggest referees thoughtfully if the system allows: experts who know the institution will judge the design fairly; avoid only methodologists who will miss the health-policy stakes.

Checklist

  • The two most fatal objections are identified and answered in the main text
  • Selection and concurrent-policy threats are pre-empted, not left for the referee
  • Staggered-bias and few-cluster inference are handled before submission
  • Welfare claims are matched to what the design identifies (no overreach to invite the obvious objection)
  • The sibling-journal reroute risk is disarmed by the contribution framing
  • The introduction answers the first question a health economist will ask
  • Reproducibility objection pre-empted with an honest DAS and shared code
  • Suggested referees (if allowed) know the institution, not only the method

Handoff boundary

This skill is a pre-submission pre-mortem; it anticipates objections and decides what to pre-place where. It is not the post-decision response letter (jhe-rebuttal) and it does not run the analysis that answers an objection — route a flagged gap to jhe-identification, jhe-robustness, or jhe-theory-model first, then come back to decide placement. When the pre-mortem is clean and the defenses are in the main text, hand off to jhe-submission.

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Anti-patterns

  • Burying the defense to the most likely objection in an appendix a referee may not reach
  • Pre-empting generic econometric worries while ignoring the health-econ-specific one (selection, institutions)
  • Overclaiming welfare and then hoping no referee notices
  • Ignoring the few-state inference problem until a referee forces it
  • Treating single-anonymized review as if institutions could be glossed over

Main-text vs. appendix: what to pre-place where

The single highest-leverage referee-strategy decision is what earns a place in the main text. Put in the main text anything a referee needs to believe the design; demote to the appendix anything that merely reassures. At JHE that means: the heterogeneity-robust estimate, the key placebo/falsification, the selection bound, and the headline distribution figure belong in the body — the controls sweep, alternative bandwidths, and secondary outcomes go to the online appendix. A defense a referee cannot find is a defense that does not exist.

Reading two referees who disagree

With ≥2 health-economist reviewers, disagreement is common and is not yours to adjudicate by majority — the editor's letter does that. When you anticipate conflict (one wants a structural model, one wants reduced-form transparency), prepare a framing that serves both: a reduced-form headline with a model in support, each labeled for what it identifies. Pre-empting the conflict in the paper's structure is better than trying to win it in the response letter later.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before submitting a hospital-payment-reform paper, the pre-mortem flags the two fatal objections: patient selection (sicker patients sort to reformed hospitals) and a concurrent quality-reporting mandate. Rather than wait, the authors move the selection bound (Oster δ) and the placebo on the unreformed service line into the main text as Table 3 and Figure 2, add a paragraph in the institutional section ruling out the simultaneous mandate by timing, and frame the contribution as a provider-incentive result (not a generic policy evaluation) to forestall a "send to AJHE" suggestion. The first referee's likely two questions are answered before they are asked.

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Health Economics
【Skill】jhe-referee-strategy
【Review model】single-anonymized; ≥2 reviewers (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准)
【Top objections (ranked)】1) ... 2) ... 3) ...
【Pre-empts in main text】[which defense goes where]
【Welfare/scope discipline】claim matched to design? [Y/N]
【Reroute risk disarmed】vs. AJHE / Health Economics / JPubE? [Y/N]
【Next skill】jhe-submission

A quick self-test before you stop

Read your own introduction as the harshest health economist you know. If you can name the objection you would raise and it is not answered by the end of the paper's main text, the pre-mortem is not finished. The goal is that the first two questions a referee writes are questions you have already answered in figures and tables they can find — not questions you are hoping they will not ask.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-referee-strategy of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jhe Referee Strategy

What does Jhe Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission. Jhe Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission.

When should I use Jhe Referee Strategy?

Jhe Referee Strategy fits situations like: pre-morteming a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) manuscript against the objections its health-economist referees raise before submission; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Jhe Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-referee-strategy -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/jhe-referee-strategy in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Jhe Referee Strategy in Codex?

Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jhe-referee-strategy -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Journal-of-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-referee-strategy in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/jhe-referee-strategy in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Jhe Referee Strategy 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 jhe-referee-strategy -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jhe-referee-strategy, .gemini/skills/jhe-referee-strategy, .github/skills/jhe-referee-strategy and .opencode/skills/jhe-referee-strategy in your project.

What does Jhe Referee Strategy need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jhe Referee Strategy is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jhe Referee Strategy 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 Jhe Referee Strategy 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 Jhe Referee Strategy use?

Jhe Referee Strategy 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 Jhe Referee Strategy use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.5k 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 Jhe Referee Strategy?

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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