Agent skill

Wber Literature Positioning

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

A skill your agent uses when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World…

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Install Wber Literature Positioning

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wber-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/World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-literature-positioning .claude/skills/wber-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
wber-literature-positioning
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~2k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,049 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World…

  • Staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, The WBER contribution standard, Positioning the contribution and Distinguishing WBER from its…, plus 7 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Ruling out its sibling journals (JDE

What it does

Wber Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Research Observer). Sharpens the gap and the boundary claims; it does not run analysis or write the intro.

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

  • Staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript
  • Ruling out its sibling journals (JDE
  • World Development
  • Economic Development and Cultural Change

Example prompts

  • “/wber-literature-positioning”

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

Wber Literature Positioning loads about 2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 93 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,049 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~93
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). 1,049 words, ~2,037 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wber-literature-positioning/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wber-literature-positioning
description
Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Research Observer). Sharpens the gap and the boundary claims; it does not run analysis or write the intro.

Literature Positioning (wber-literature-positioning)

When to trigger

  • The "what's new vs. the frontier" sentence is vague or oversold
  • A referee could plausibly say "this is incremental on [paper X]"
  • The paper sits between two literatures (e.g., impact evaluation and trade) and the home base is unclear
  • You cannot articulate why this is a WBER paper rather than a JDE or World Development paper
  • The contribution is framed as "first to study Y in country Z" (a setting, not a contribution)

The WBER contribution standard

WBER rewards papers that move the development-economics evidence base in a way a practitioner would notice — a credibly identified effect, a new measurement, a resolved puzzle, or a mechanism pinned down — not a marginal extension. Because WBER's audience includes economists and policymakers, the positioning must do double duty: situate the paper in the academic frontier AND signal why the result matters for development policy. A contribution stated purely as "we are the first to look at X in country Y" reads as a setting, not a contribution; WBER referees want the general lesson.

Positioning the contribution

  • State the gap as a claim, not a topic. "We show that the standard targeting rule misallocates X% of transfers when consumption is mismeasured" is a contribution; "we study targeting in country Z" is a topic.
  • Pick the right frontier. Cite the canonical development result you are advancing or overturning, then the recent papers that bound it. Engage the best version of the prior work, not a strawman.
  • Connect to the policy debate. WBER positioning links the academic gap to an active development-policy question (cash vs. in-kind, schooling inputs, trade liberalization, financial inclusion, climate adaptation).
  • Be honest about the local-to-general step. If your evidence is from one setting, position it as informative about a mechanism that travels, and say what would have to be true for it to generalize.

Distinguishing WBER from its siblings

This is the highest-leverage positioning move. Get the boundary explicit:

JournalWhat it isSend there instead when...
Journal of Development Economics (JDE)The rigorous-dev-econ field journal; method-forwardYour contribution is primarily methodological or the policy hook is thin; JDE tolerates less of a "World Bank audience" framing
World DevelopmentInterdisciplinary, broader on qualitative/mixed methods and institutionsThe contribution is interdisciplinary or relies on non-econometric evidence
Economic Development and Cultural Change (EDCC)Long-run, cultural, institutional developmentThe angle is historical/cultural/long-run rather than a sharp policy evaluation
World Bank Research ObserverSurveys and accessible overviews for nonspecialists; not refereed in the WBER senseThe paper is a survey, framework, or synthesis rather than original empirics
AEJ: AppliedIdentification-driven applied micro, not development-specificThe result is general applied micro with no developing-country policy stake

Use the table to write one or two sentences in the intro that pre-empt the "why not JDE / why not World Development?" referee reflex. WBER referees are often the same people who referee for these siblings.

Three contribution archetypes WBER rewards

WBER contributions tend to fall into one of three shapes — name yours, because each is positioned differently:

  • New credible effect — a clean estimate of a development policy/program effect that prior work could not identify or got wrong. Position against the canonical estimate and the design flaw you fix.
  • New measurement — a better measure of poverty, welfare, inequality, informality, or firm performance in developing-country data that changes a policy conclusion. Position against the standard measure and what it misses.
  • Resolved puzzle / pinned mechanism — reconciling conflicting development findings or isolating the channel behind a known effect. Position against the competing explanations you adjudicate.
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Referee pushback mapped to the positioning fix

  • "This is incremental on [paper X]." → State the gap as a quantitative claim and show what X could not identify or measure that you can.
  • "Why is this a World Bank paper and not JDE?" → Add the policy-decision sentence: name the development decision your result informs, and the practitioner who acts on it.
  • "You're the first to study this in country Y — so what?" → Recast the setting as a test of a transferable mechanism; state the general lesson.
  • "This belongs in the Research Observer." → If it really is a survey, agree and reroute; if not, foreground the original empirical contribution the Observer would not publish.

Checklist

  • The contribution is stated as a claim about a mechanism/quantity, not "first to study Y in Z"
  • The canonical frontier result is named and the recent bounding papers cited (best version, not strawman)
  • The academic gap is tied to a live development-policy question
  • The local-to-general step is acknowledged and conditions for generalization stated
  • One sentence pre-empts "why not JDE / World Development / Research Observer?"
  • No overclaiming relative to what the design (next skill) can support

Citing the right development frontier

WBER referees notice whose work you engage. Cite the canonical development result you advance (the foundational estimate or theory), then the recent papers that bound or contest it, then any World Bank / policy evidence that frames the stake. Engaging only the rich-country general-applied literature while ignoring the development field signals the paper is mis-targeted; ignoring recent work that already answers part of your question invites an "incremental" verdict. Aim for a positioning that an expert development referee reads and thinks "yes, they know this literature and they have moved it."

Anti-patterns

  • "First paper to study X in country Y" presented as the contribution
  • Citing only your own prior work or a strawman version of the frontier
  • Claiming general-interest stakes the design cannot deliver
  • Ignoring an obviously closer sibling journal until a referee names it
  • Positioning as pure method (JDE territory) while submitting to a policy-audience journal

Worked vignette (illustrative)

A paper estimates the effect of a rural road on market access using a new spatial dataset. The first framing — "we are the first to use night-lights to study road impacts in [country]" — is a setting, not a contribution. The WBER repositioning makes it a new-measurement claim: the standard distance-to-market proxy mismeasures effective access by ignoring seasonal impassability, and correcting it changes the estimated returns to road investment by a third (illustrative). The frontier engaged is the canonical roads-and-growth literature; the policy debate is where to allocate a fixed infrastructure budget; and one intro sentence pre-empts the sibling reflex — this is WBER, not World Development, because the contribution is a credibly identified, policy-budget-relevant quantity, not an interdisciplinary case study.

Output format

text
【Contribution claim】one sentence (mechanism/quantity, not setting)
【Frontier engaged】canonical + recent bounding papers
【Policy debate connected】the live development question
【Local-to-general】what must hold for the result to travel
【Sibling boundary】explicit "why WBER not JDE / WD / EDCC / Research Observer"
【Next skill】wber-identification (or wber-theory-model if a model frames the gap)

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Files

Just SKILL.md in World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-literature-positioning of brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wber Literature Positioning

What does Wber Literature Positioning do?

A skill your agent uses when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World…. Wber Literature Positioning is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript, and ruling out its sibling journals (JDE, World Development, Economic Development and Cultural Change, the Research Observer).

When should I use Wber Literature Positioning?

Wber Literature Positioning fits situations like: staking a contribution against the development-economics frontier for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript; ruling out its sibling journals (JDE; world Development; economic Development and Cultural Change.

How do I install Wber Literature Positioning in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wber Literature Positioning in Codex?

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

Can I use Wber 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 wber-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/wber-literature-positioning, .gemini/skills/wber-literature-positioning, .github/skills/wber-literature-positioning and .opencode/skills/wber-literature-positioning in your project.

What does Wber Literature Positioning need to run?

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

Does Wber 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 Wber 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 Wber Literature Positioning use?

Wber 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 Wber 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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