A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selection --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .claude/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.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/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .claude/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selectionType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selection --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .agents/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .agents/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selection --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .cursor/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .cursor/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git --path Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selection --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .gemini/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .gemini/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selectionInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .github/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .github/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills restat-topic-selection --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection .opencode/skills/restat-topic-selection && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "restat-topic-selection" agent skill from https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills/tree/main/Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection into .opencode/skills/restat-topic-selection/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "restat-topic-selection", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
restat-topic-selectionA skill your agent uses when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J.
Restat Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J. Econometrics / a field journal, and sharpening the question to REStat's empirical-and-measurement bar. Decides venue fit and frames the question; it does not run the analysis.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Econometrics and empirical research and Statistics. 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.
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 932eb23. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
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.
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.
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Restat Topic Selection loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 620 words of instructions outside code blocks.
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.
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.
The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 620 words, ~1,350 tokens.
.claude/skills/restat-topic-selection/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).REStat publishes applied economics and applied econometrics with a long measurement tradition: it wants a substantive economic question answered with credible identification or a careful measurement / data contribution that moves an applied literature. It is empirical-first and broad across fields (labor, public, development, trade, IO, health, environment, urban, macro-empirics), wider than a field journal but more specialized than AER. Two REStat sweet spots that distinguish it from siblings: (1) a clean causal estimate of a parameter an applied literature cares about; (2) a measurement or methods-applied advance — a new index, a better-measured construct, a corrected bias, an estimator put to serious applied use — where the application, not the theorem, is the point.
| Your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Credible causal estimate of broad applied interest, careful measurement | REStat | The target |
| Agenda-setting, general-interest, longer, field-defining | AER | REStat takes more specialized applied work, often shorter |
| Identification-driven applied micro of broad interest | AEJ: Applied (close sibling) | Overlaps heavily; REStat leans more on measurement + applied econometrics |
| A new estimator with proofs; method is the contribution | J. Econometrics / Econometrica | REStat is applied — methods must be applied, not developed for their own sake |
| Sub-field-internal contribution (JOLE / JPubE / JDE) | Field journal | REStat wants wider applied readership |
| A short, sharp empirical result | REStat Short Paper (≤6000 words, ≤5 exhibits; source map refreshed 2026-06-20) | REStat has a short-format track for compact contributions |
Write the contribution in one sentence of the form: "We measure/identify [parameter/object] in [setting] using [design/data], and find [estimate], which matters for [applied question]." If the sentence is really "we develop a new estimator and prove its properties," you are at the wrong journal. If it is "we provide a better-measured [X] and show it changes [applied conclusion]," you are squarely in REStat's measurement tradition.
restat-literature-positioning)An author has built a new county-level index of local labor-market tightness from job-posting data and shows it predicts wage growth. Pitched as "a new index," it reads as a data note with no clear home. Re-framed for REStat, the contribution becomes: "We measure local labor-market tightness with less error than the vacancy-to-unemployment proxy, and show that correcting this measurement reverses the estimated slope of the wage curve." Now the measurement advance changes an applied conclusion — squarely REStat's tradition, and stronger than either a bare index (a data note) or a new estimator (J. Econometrics). The same project would be undersold as field-internal at a labor journal and too narrow for AER.
【Venue verdict】REStat (Article / Short Paper) | redirect to: [AER / AEJ:Applied / J.Econometrics / field]
【One-sentence contribution】measure/identify [object] in [setting] via [design] → [estimate] → matters for [question]
【Contribution type】identification | measurement | applied-econometrics
【Closest prior work】[3–5 papers] (→ restat-literature-positioning)
【Length track】Article | Short Paper (≤6000 words, ≤5 exhibits)
【Next step】restat-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
Just SKILL.md in Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23
Restat Topic Selection next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restat Topic Selection this skillbrycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills | 1.2k | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Phack Polyglotbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Stata Analystmajiayu000/claude-skill-registry | 666 | 1 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Panel Data Analystbrycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | 4.5k | — | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Jbes Literature Positioningfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~924 | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Ectj Topic Selectionfranklee16/academic-research-skills | 223 | 1 repos | ~386 | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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A skill your agent uses when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J. Restat Topic Selection is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J.
Restat Topic Selection fits situations like: deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J; tasks that involve Econometrics and empirical research; tasks that involve Statistics.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .claude/skills/restat-topic-selection in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill restat-topic-selection -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (Review-of-Economics-and-Statistics-Skills/skills/restat-topic-selection in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills) into .agents/skills/restat-topic-selection in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
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 restat-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/restat-topic-selection, .gemini/skills/restat-topic-selection, .github/skills/restat-topic-selection and .opencode/skills/restat-topic-selection in your project.
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Restat Topic Selection is instructions for the agent only.
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.
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.
Restat 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.
About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Restat Topic Selection: Phack Polyglot (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars), Stata Analyst (majiayu000/claude-skill-registry, 666 stars), Panel Data Analyst (brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills, 4.5k stars) and Jbes Literature Positioning (franklee16/academic-research-skills, 223 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
brycewang-stanford (a GitHub user) maintains it in brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, which has 1,219 GitHub stars. The repository holds 2,387 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.
Source: brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.
