A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks…

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Install Wber Referee Strategy

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

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills wber-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/World-Bank-Economic-Review-Skills/skills/wber-referee-strategy .claude/skills/wber-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
wber-referee-strategy
GitHub stars
1.2k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
875 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
2,387
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks…

  • Policy relevance) and writing the cover letter
  • SKILL.md covers When to trigger, Who referees WBER — and what…, The predictable WBER… and The cover letter, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing

What it does

Wber Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter. Plans defenses; it does not run new analysis.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k 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 Business, Finance & HR, covering Resume and CV writing, Peer review and Data cleaning. 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

  • Policy relevance) and writing the cover letter
  • Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing
  • Tasks that involve Peer review

Example prompts

  • “/wber-referee-strategy”

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 Referee Strategy loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 85 tokens; SKILL.md has 875 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~85
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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

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The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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SKILL.md

The full file from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills at commit 932eb23, republished under its MIT licence (© brycewang-stanford). 875 words, ~1,776 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/wber-referee-strategy/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
wber-referee-strategy
description
Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter. Plans defenses; it does not run new analysis.

Referee Strategy (wber-referee-strategy)

When to trigger

  • The paper is near submission and you want to surface objections before a referee does
  • You are writing the cover letter and choosing how to frame the contribution to the editor
  • You suspect one referee will be a hard-identification economist and another a policy reader
  • You want to decide which robustness checks to pre-load in the paper vs. hold for the response
  • You are unsure whether the framing will survive the "is this a World Bank paper?" reflex

Who referees WBER — and what they punish

WBER's review is single-anonymized (referees are anonymous; your name is on the title page), and editors (Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth, 检索于 2026-06;以官网为准) draw on a development-economics referee pool that overlaps heavily with JDE, AEJ: Applied, and the AEA journals. Expect two referee archetypes and write for both:

  • The identification referee — sophisticated about staggered-DiD bias, weak IV, RD manipulation, attrition, spillovers. Punishes asserted exclusion restrictions, TWFE on staggered timing, and overreach beyond the estimand.
  • The policy/development referee — asks "so what for development policy?", "does this generalize?", "what about general equilibrium and cost?". Punishes project-report framing and results with no scale-up relevance.

A paper that satisfies only one archetype is the canonical WBER R&R-or-reject. Pre-empt both.

The predictable WBER objections (pre-empt in the paper)

Likely objectionPre-emption to build in before submitting
"This is a project report, not general-interest"Frame around a transferable mechanism; state external validity explicitly (wber-topic-selection, wber-identification)
"Identification rests on an untested assumption"Show the diagnostic that could have failed; report design-specific sensitivity (wber-identification, wber-robustness)
"Developing-country data quality is suspect"Measurement-error and coverage checks against an alternative source (wber-robustness)
"The LATE won't survive scale-up"Discuss complier-vs-population, GE channels, fiscal cost (wber-identification)
"Why WBER and not JDE / World Development?"One intro sentence on the policy-audience contribution (wber-literature-positioning)
"Not reproducible"Have the data/code package and DOI-linked DAS ready (wber-replication-package)

The cover letter

  • Name the development question and the policy decision in the first two sentences — give the editor the "why this journal" instantly.
  • State the contribution as a claim with a magnitude, and the identification in one line.
  • Pre-empt the sibling question: one sentence on why this is WBER, not JDE/World Development/Research Observer.
  • Note the data/code package is prepared and the data availability statement is in place.
  • Suggest reviewers honestly (if the portal asks) across both archetypes; flag genuine conflicts.
  • Keep it under a page; do not restate the abstract verbatim.

Pre-load vs. hold in reserve

Not every check belongs in the submitted paper. Decide deliberately:

  • Pre-load in the paper: the design diagnostic the identification referee will demand first (balance/pre-trends/density/first-stage), the headline robustness, and the external-validity/cost paragraph. These are cheap insurance against a fast reject.
  • Hold in reserve (ready to run): exotic robustness a referee might ask for, alternative estimators that would bloat the main text, and extended heterogeneity. Have the code ready so you can produce them in one round if asked, without padding the 40 pages now.

The judgment call: anything a competent referee would certainly ask goes in the paper; anything they might ask is held, code-ready, for the response letter.

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Checklist

  • Both referee archetypes (identification + policy) explicitly addressed in the paper
  • Each predictable objection has a pre-emption already in the text, not held in reserve
  • External validity / scale-up / cost is in the paper, not only the cover letter
  • The "why WBER not a sibling" sentence is in both the intro and the cover letter
  • Data/code package and DOI-linked DAS ready before submission
  • Cover letter names the policy decision in the opening lines and states a magnitude
  • Suggested reviewers (if requested) span both archetypes; conflicts disclosed

Anti-patterns

  • Writing only for the identification referee and ignoring the policy reader (or vice versa)
  • Holding back the obvious robustness check, hoping no one asks — they will
  • A cover letter that restates the abstract and never says "why WBER"
  • Leaving external validity entirely to the cover letter instead of the paper
  • Assuming single-anonymized review hides the authors — your name is on the title page; reputation and self-citation are visible
  • Suggesting only friendly reviewers from one camp

Self-citation and the single-anonymized reality

Because WBER review is single-anonymized, referees can see who you are — so the usual double-blind tricks do not apply and can backfire. Do not over-cite yourself to signal authority; do not strip your own relevant prior work to feign novelty (a referee who knows your record will notice). Cite your prior work where it is genuinely the right reference, in the third person, and let the contribution stand on the new result. Treat the referees as informed colleagues who may well know your earlier papers better than you expect.

Worked vignette (illustrative)

Before submitting an RD evaluation of a subsidy, the authors war-game two reports. The identification referee will challenge manipulation at the eligibility score; they pre-load a Cattaneo–Jansson–Ma density test and a donut check. The policy referee will ask whether a local-at-cutoff effect justifies a national change; they add a paragraph on the complier population and a back-of-envelope fiscal cost at scale. The cover letter opens: "Governments spend billions on means-tested subsidies but lack credible estimates of marginal effects; using [country]'s eligibility threshold we estimate a 5pp enrollment gain at $90 per enrollee." Both archetypes are answered before review begins.

Output format

text
【Identification referee】top objection + pre-emption in paper
【Policy referee】top objection + pre-emption in paper
【External validity / cost】in the paper? [Y/N]
【Why-WBER sentence】in intro AND cover letter? [Y/N]
【Package readiness】data/code + DOI DAS ready? [Y/N]
【Cover letter】names policy decision + magnitude in opening? [Y/N]
【Next step】wber-submission

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Files

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

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 932eb23

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Questions about Wber Referee Strategy

What does Wber Referee Strategy do?

A skill your agent uses when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks…. Wber Referee Strategy is an agent skill from brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills. Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter.

When should I use Wber Referee Strategy?

Wber Referee Strategy fits situations like: policy relevance) and writing the cover letter; tasks that involve Resume and CV writing; tasks that involve Peer review.

How do I install Wber Referee Strategy in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Wber Referee Strategy in Codex?

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

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

What does Wber Referee Strategy need to run?

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

Does Wber 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 Wber 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 Wber Referee Strategy use?

Wber 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 Wber Referee Strategy use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k 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 Wber 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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