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Jue Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

MITAuto-check passedMarketing & SEO

Install Jue Literature Positioning

skills CLI
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-literature-positioning -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills jue-literature-positioning --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-Urban-Economics-Skills/skills/jue-literature-positioning .claude/skills/jue-literature-positioning && 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
jue-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,005 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

  • Works in 4 steps: Name the closest two or three papers in… → State your delta in one sentence that an… → Separate the spatial-design contribution… → …
  • The contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Position against the right…, Crafting the contribution… and Positioning against the…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Jue Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right spatial literatures and the sibling journals; it does not design the identification or draft the prose.

Its SKILL.md is about 2k 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 Marketing & SEO, covering Positioning and messaging. 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

  • The contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy
  • Tasks that involve Positioning and messaging

Example prompts

  • “/jue-literature-positioning”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Name the closest two or three papers in your strand and state precisely what each leaves open — not "they don't study city Y," but "they…
  2. State your delta in one sentence that an urban economist would recognize as a real advance (new variation, new mechanism, new data…
  3. Separate the spatial-design contribution from the substantive one. A clever boundary discontinuity is a methods contribution; a new…
  4. Pre-empt the "theory already predicts this" objection by showing the sign was ambiguous ex ante or the magnitude was unknown and matters…

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

Jue Literature Positioning loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 80 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,005 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~80
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2k

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). 1,005 words, ~2,033 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/jue-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
jue-literature-positioning
description
Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Stakes the marginal contribution against the right spatial literatures and the sibling journals; it does not design the identification or draft the prose.

Literature Positioning (jue-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The intro cites broadly but never says what is new relative to the urban-econ frontier
  • A referee could say "this confirms what Rosen–Roback / spatial-equilibrium theory already implies"
  • The contribution is buried under a generic "the literature has not examined city Y" claim
  • You are unsure which strand (agglomeration, housing, sorting, transport, local public finance, place-based policy) you are actually contributing to
  • The paper reads as adjacent to JUE — it could be sent to RSUE, JEG, or JPubE without changing a word

Position against the right spatial literature, not the world

JUE referees are urban economists; they know the canonical frames and will test whether you have advanced one. Anchor the contribution in the specific strand you move, then state the delta precisely.

StrandThe frame referees holdWhat counts as moving it
Agglomeration & productivityMarshall (sharing/matching/learning); Combes–Gobillon density-wage elasticity; sorting vs true agglomerationnew source of exogenous density variation; decomposing sorting from spillovers; new mechanism
Spatial equilibriumRosen–Roback; amenity capitalization; Diamond-style sortinga quantitatively new wedge, amenity, or constraint in the equilibrium
Housing supply & pricesGlaeser–Gyourko; Saiz supply elasticity; regulation/land usenew supply-constraint measurement; causal effect of regulation; capitalization design
Quantitative spatial modelsAhlfeldt–Redding–Sturm–Wolf; Allen–Arkolakis; market accessnew data discipline on parameters; new counterfactual margin
Neighborhood effects & mobilityMTO; Chetty–Hendren place effectsnew identification of place vs selection; new policy lever
Place-based policyenterprise/opportunity zones; transport infrastructurecredible spillover-aware evaluation; welfare incidence
Local public financeTiebout sorting; capitalization of local taxes/servicesnew test of sorting; fiscal incidence in space

Crafting the contribution paragraph

  1. Name the closest two or three papers in your strand and state precisely what each leaves open — not "they don't study city Y," but "they identify A under assumption B, which fails when C."
  2. State your delta in one sentence that an urban economist would recognize as a real advance (new variation, new mechanism, new data, decisive magnitude).
  3. Separate the spatial-design contribution from the substantive one. A clever boundary discontinuity is a methods contribution; a new agglomeration magnitude is substantive. Claim the one you actually deliver.
  4. Pre-empt the "theory already predicts this" objection by showing the sign was ambiguous ex ante or the magnitude was unknown and matters for policy.

Positioning against the quantitative-spatial turn

A reduced-form JUE paper increasingly has to speak to the quantitative-spatial-model (QSM) literature even when it does not estimate one. If your estimate is an elasticity or a magnitude that QSMs need as an input (migration, commuting, housing-supply, or agglomeration elasticity), say so — "our reduced-form estimate disciplines the [X] elasticity that ARSW-style models calibrate." This frames a clean reduced-form result as a contribution to structural work and widens the audience. Conversely, a QSM paper must position against the reduced-form estimates its parameters rest on, not only against other models.

Distinguishing JUE from its siblings in the intro

The "why JUE" question is a positioning task, not just a venue choice. One sentence in the introduction should make the fit obvious to the editor:

  • vs RSUE / J. of Regional Science — lead with the economic mechanism and policy stake, not the spatial-econometric method.
  • vs JEG (OUP) — frame in spatial-equilibrium / urban-economics terms (capitalization, sorting, agglomeration), not evolutionary or institutional economic geography.
  • vs JPubE — center the spatial reallocation and capitalization, not the tax/spending instrument design.
  • vs AEJ: Applied — keep the urban mechanism load-bearing; a clean design alone reads as a fit problem at JUE.
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Cite the canon correctly — referees notice

Urban economists hold the field's foundational results precisely, and a miscited or misattributed canon erodes credibility on page one. Get the anchors right for your strand: Rosen and Roback for amenity capitalization in spatial equilibrium; Glaeser and Gyourko (with Saiz on supply elasticity) for housing supply constraints; Combes and Gobillon for the density-wage elasticity and the sorting-vs-agglomeration distinction; Ahlfeldt–Redding–Sturm–Wolf and Allen–Arkolakis for quantitative spatial models; Chetty–Hendren and the MTO literature for neighborhood effects. Engage these on their assumptions, not as decorative citations, and the urban-economics referee reads you as a member of the conversation.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper estimates the effect of minimum-lot-size zoning on house prices. Weak positioning: "the literature has not studied lot-size zoning." Strong JUE positioning: anchor in Glaeser–Gyourko supply-constraint work and Saiz elasticities, state that prior work measures aggregate regulation indices while this paper isolates one regulatory margin with a boundary design, and note the estimated supply response disciplines the housing-supply elasticity used in spatial-equilibrium models. The delta — a causal, single-instrument estimate that feeds QSM calibration — is one an urban economist accepts as new.

Checklist

  • The strand you contribute to is named, with its canonical anchors cited correctly
  • The 2–3 closest papers are engaged on their assumptions/limits, not just listed
  • The delta is one sentence an urban economist would accept as new
  • Spatial-design novelty and substantive novelty are not conflated
  • The "spatial-equilibrium theory already implies this" objection is anticipated
  • Positioning makes clear why JUE and not RSUE / JEG / JPubE
  • If reduced-form, the link to the QSM elasticity it disciplines is stated
  • The literature is mapped as a frontier, not listed chronologically

Anti-patterns

  • "No one has studied [this city/country]" offered as the contribution (setting ≠ contribution)
  • Citing the agglomeration or housing canon without saying which assumption you relax
  • Claiming a methods advance and a substance advance when the paper delivers only one
  • Positioning so broadly the paper could go to any spatial journal — the JUE referee reads that as a fit problem
  • Ignoring recent quantitative-spatial-model work when your reduced-form result speaks to it
  • A literature section that is a chronological list rather than a map of the frontier you move

The contribution paragraph in practice

The single most-read positioning unit is the "contribution paragraph" near the end of the introduction. It should run: closest work and its limit → your variation/mechanism/data → the delta in one sentence → why it matters for cities. Keep it to one paragraph; a JUE referee who has to hunt across the intro for the contribution reads that as a sign the author is unsure what it is. Front the delta, not the apparatus.

Output format

text
【Strand】agglomeration / spatial-eqm / housing / QSM / neighborhood / place-based / local-public-finance
【Closest papers】2–3, with the specific limit each leaves open
【Delta】one sentence an urban economist accepts as new
【Novelty type】spatial design / substantive mechanism / data / magnitude
【Why JUE not sibling】one line
【Next skill】jue-identification

© 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-Urban-Economics-Skills/skills/jue-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Jue Literature Positioning

What does Jue Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold. Jue Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy or undersold.

When should I use Jue Literature Positioning?

Jue Literature Positioning fits situations like: the contribution of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript relative to the urban-economics frontier is fuzzy; tasks that involve Positioning and messaging.

How do I install Jue Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Jue Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

Can I use Jue Literature Positioning 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 jue-literature-positioning -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/jue-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/jue-literature-positioning, .github/skills/jue-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/jue-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Jue Literature Positioning need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Jue Literature Positioning is instructions for the agent only.

Does Jue Literature Positioning 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 Jue Literature Positioning 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 Jue Literature Positioning use?

Jue Literature Positioning 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 Jue Literature Positioning use?

About 2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.1k 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 Jue Literature Positioning?

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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