A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with…

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Install Jhe Topic Selection

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jhe-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-Health-Economics-Skills/skills/jhe-topic-selection .claude/skills/jhe-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
jhe-topic-selection
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.9k tokens
SKILL.md length
907 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 question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with…

  • Works in 6 steps: State the question in one sentence… → Name the health economist who would… → Identify the counterfactual policy or… → …
  • Deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The JHE fit test, Sibling boundary (where papers… and Sharpening moves, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jhe Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with health as a thin application. Frames the question and audience; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.

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 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 question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution
  • Not a public-finance
  • Labor paper with health as a thin application

Example prompts

  • “/jhe-topic-selection”

Workflow steps

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

  1. State the question in one sentence naming the health-system mechanism and the policy or welfare stake.
  2. Name the health economist who would referee it and the institutional fact they would test you on (e.g., does your "Medicaid effect"…
  3. Identify the counterfactual policy or market a health-policy reader would care about.
  4. Separate the health-econ contribution from the generic econometric contribution — JHE rewards the former.
  5. Confirm a real policy or market exists that your counterfactual speaks to — JHE wants the lesson, not just the estimate.
  6. Hand off to jhe-literature-positioning if the fit passes, or back to jhe-workflow to reconsider venue.

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 Topic Selection loads about 1.9k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 78 tokens; SKILL.md has 907 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). 907 words, ~1,861 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jhe-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jhe-topic-selection
description
Use when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with health as a thin application. Frames the question and audience; it does not run the analysis or invent citations.

Topic Selection (jhe-topic-selection)

When to trigger

  • A draft is being aimed at JHE and you are unsure it is a health-economics paper versus a public-finance/labor paper that happens to use health data
  • A coauthor asks whether the question clears JHE's "value, production, or distribution of health or healthcare" bar
  • The paper risks landing better at AJHE, Journal of Public Economics, Health Economics, or AEJ: Economic Policy
  • The health-economics mechanism is not yet the center of gravity of the question

The JHE fit test

JHE asks whether the paper advances understanding of the value, production, or distribution of health or healthcare, or directly informs health policy (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). The decisive question is not "is there health data?" but "is the economic mechanism a health-system mechanism?" A paper where the health setting is interchangeable with any other market belongs elsewhere. Run the question through these health-econ cores and confirm at least one is the engine, not the backdrop:

Health-econ coreWhat makes it a JHE question (not a sibling's)
Insurance design & demandmoral hazard, adverse/advantageous selection, take-up, plan choice, cost-sharing response — the insurance mechanism drives the result
Provider incentives & paymenthow DRG/P4P/capitation/ACO design changes provider behavior, intensity, coding, patient selection
Healthcare marketshospital/insurer competition, consolidation, network design, market power in a regulated market
Health behaviorssmoking, obesity, alcohol, addiction — price/tax/information variation, internalities/externalities
Health & human capitalhow health shocks/investments shape education, labor supply, earnings — health as the production input
Health policy & disparitiescoverage expansions, mandates, access, equity across groups — the policy is a health-system policy

If the mechanism is really taxation, redistribution, or labor supply with health as one outcome among many, the better home is JPubE or a labor outlet — say so early.

Sibling boundary (where papers get misrouted)

  • vs. AJHE — AJHE (ASHEcon, U. Chicago Press) leans US-health-policy and applied; JHE is the international Elsevier field flagship with stronger appetite for structural insurance/provider models. A US-Medicaid descriptive-policy paper may fit AJHE better; a model-disciplined selection paper fits JHE.
  • vs. Journal of Public Economics — JPubE wants the public-finance mechanism (incidence, optimal policy, fiscal externality) front and center; JHE wants the health-system mechanism.
  • vs. Health Economics (Wiley) — Health Economics is broader and more methods/measurement-tolerant; JHE prizes sharper causal identification and a tighter economic question.
  • vs. AEJ: Economic Policy — AEJ:Pol is a policy generalist judged on top-5-adjacent breadth; JHE is judged by health economists on health-econ depth.

Sharpening moves

  1. State the question in one sentence naming the health-system mechanism and the policy or welfare stake.
  2. Name the health economist who would referee it and the institutional fact they would test you on (e.g., does your "Medicaid effect" separate take-up from crowd-out?).
  3. Identify the counterfactual policy or market a health-policy reader would care about.
  4. Separate the health-econ contribution from the generic econometric contribution — JHE rewards the former.
  5. Confirm a real policy or market exists that your counterfactual speaks to — JHE wants the lesson, not just the estimate.
  6. Hand off to jhe-literature-positioning if the fit passes, or back to jhe-workflow to reconsider venue.
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Worked vignette (illustrative)

A draft studies how a state income-tax change affects household health-insurance purchases. The author aims at JHE. The fit test exposes the problem: the engine is a tax mechanism (incidence, behavioral response to a marginal rate), with insurance as the outcome — that is a Journal of Public Economics paper. The reframe that earns JHE: pivot the engine to the insurance-demand and selection margin — how the price change moves who buys coverage and the resulting selection in the risk pool — so the health-system mechanism (adverse selection, plan choice) becomes the contribution, not the tax. Same data, different engine, different journal. If the selection story is thin, the honest call is to send it to JPubE rather than dress it up.

Quick triage when venue is genuinely ambiguous

  • If the policy lever is fiscal (tax, transfer, subsidy) and health is one outcome → likely JPubE.
  • If the contribution is US health-policy description/evaluation with light modeling → consider AJHE.
  • If the contribution is methods/measurement or broader and more applied → consider Health Economics (Wiley).
  • If the engine is a health-system mechanism (insurance/provider/market/behavior/human-capital) with credible identification → JHE.

Checklist

  • One health-econ core is the engine of the question, not the backdrop
  • The question would be weaker (not just relocated) if you stripped the health setting out
  • The institutional setting (program rules, payment system, market structure) is named, not generic
  • The boundary vs. AJHE / JPubE / Health Economics / AEJ:Pol is explicit
  • The policy or welfare stake is stated, not implied
  • Process facts cited are in resources/official-source-map.md or marked 待核实

Anti-patterns

  • Choosing the venue for prestige before checking which audience the mechanism actually serves
  • A labor/public-finance paper with health as one of several outcomes, dressed as health economics
  • "We use health data" treated as fit, with no health-system mechanism
  • Picking JHE for prestige when AJHE or Health Economics is the natural audience
  • Naming a program (Medicaid, Part D) but ignoring the institutional detail referees will test
  • Inventing exemplar JHE papers or editor names instead of marking 待核实

Output format

text
【Journal】Journal of Health Economics
【Skill】jhe-topic-selection
【Verdict】fit / reframe / reroute-to-sibling
【Health-econ core】insurance / provider / markets / behavior / human-capital / policy-disparities
【Mechanism sentence】one line naming the health-system mechanism + stake
【Sibling boundary】why not AJHE / JPubE / Health Economics / AEJ:Pol
【Source status】verified URL / 待核实 / not asserted
【Next skill】jhe-literature-positioning

Handoff boundary

This skill decides whether the question belongs at JHE and frames the health-system mechanism; it does not stake the marginal contribution against the literature (jhe-literature-positioning) or test the design (jhe-identification). If the fit is genuine, hand off to jhe-literature-positioning. If the honest verdict is "reroute," say which sibling journal fits and why, rather than forcing a frame the JHE audience will reject — a clean reroute saves a year over a desk reject.

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jhe Topic Selection

What does Jhe Topic Selection do?

A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with…. Jhe Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution, not a public-finance or labor paper with health as a thin application.

When should I use Jhe Topic Selection?

Jhe Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether a question is a Journal of Health Economics (JHE) paper at all — is it a genuine health-economics contribution; not a public-finance; labor paper with health as a thin application.

How do I install Jhe Topic Selection in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jhe Topic Selection in Codex?

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

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

What does Jhe Topic Selection need to run?

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

Does Jhe 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 Jhe 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 Jhe Topic Selection use?

Jhe 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 Jhe Topic Selection use?

About 1.9k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.4k 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 Jhe 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.

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