Claude Skills by brycewang-stanford

Use as the entry point for any Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript. Routes to the right POQ sub-skill based on where you are in the lifecycle and which submission type (Original Article, Research Note, Polls in Context, Research Synthesis, Book Review) fits. It dispatches; it does not draft content.

Use when drafting or polishing a Public Opinion Quarterly (POQ) manuscript so it reads for a public-opinion and survey-methodology audience and fits the type caps (Original Article ≤ 6,500 words of text and notes; Research Note < 3,000; Polls in Context ≤ 2,500). POQ word counts cover text and notes but exclude figures, tables, references, and appendices. Tightens prose and format; it does not invent content.

Use to sharpen the one-sentence contribution of a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript so a general-interest Econometric Society reader sees the quantitative payoff immediately. Frames the claim and its scope; it does not redo estimation or write full prose.

Use when executing or auditing the quantitative core of a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript — estimation (structural/GMM/MSM or causal), moment construction, data cleaning, computation, and inference — so results are credible and reproducible for the ES Data Editor. Runs and checks the analysis; for the identification argument route to qe-identification-strategy.

Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript — whether causal identification in an empirical design, parameter identification in a structural/computational model, or treatment-effect identification in an experiment. Stress-tests the strategy to the QE general-interest quantitative bar before exhibits are finalized.

Use to stake a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript's contribution against the frontier — what quantitative gap it closes relative to prior empirical, structural, and methodological work, and against its Econometric Society siblings. Positions the paper; it does not write a standalone literature survey.

Use when a Quantitative Economics (QE) decision letter arrives (R&R or major/conditional revision) and a response strategy and letter are needed. Structures the revision and response; it does not redo the analysis (route to the relevant qe-* skill for that).

Use to assemble a Quantitative Economics (QE) replication package that passes the Econometric Society Data Editor's pre-acceptance reproducibility check — raw data, code, documentation, README, and any exemption requests — under the DCAS-compatible ES Data and Code Availability Policy (NOT the JAE archive). Builds and audits the package; it does not run the estimation.

Use to understand and plan around the Quantitative Economics (QE) editorial timeline — desk-reject risk, external refereeing, ~4-5 month target turnaround, 12-month revise windows, the Econometrica-transfer route, and the pre-acceptance ES Data Editor check. Sets expectations; it does not draft the paper.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for Quantitative Economics (QE) via the Econometric Society online portal — membership gate, submission fee, PDF format rules, the Econometrica-transfer option, public-posting requirement, and the no-asterisks house style. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use when building or auditing tables and figures for a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript so exhibits follow QE house rules — no significance asterisks or boldface, standard errors and coverage sets shown, figures/tables placed in-text, and final files as .eps/.jpg. Shapes exhibits; it does not redo the estimation.

Use early, when judging whether a project fits Quantitative Economics (QE) — a substantive economic question answered with serious quantitative methods (empirical, structural/computational, experimental, or simulation), sister to Econometrica and Theoretical Economics. Tests fit and sharpens the question; it does not design the estimation.

Use when deciding which qe-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Quantitative Economics (QE) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Use when polishing prose, abstract, and introduction for a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript so a quantitative method and its economic payoff land for a general-interest Econometric Society readership. Reflects QE house rules (no significance asterisks; report SEs/coverage sets). Polishes exposition; it does not change results or estimation.

Use when the causal identification strategy is the bottleneck for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript — RCT, staggered DID, IV, RDD, event study. Stress-tests the design to the QJE general-interest bar before tables are drafted.

Use when staking a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript's contribution against the frontier — what it builds on, what it overturns, and why it belongs in a general-interest journal. Positions the contribution; it does not write the full literature survey.

Use when a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) decision letter arrives (R&R or reject-and-resubmit) and a response strategy and letter are needed. Structures the revision and response; it does not redo the analysis (route to the relevant qje-* skill for that).

Use when war-gaming likely referee objections for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript before submitting, to close gaps pre-emptively given QJE's ~2-week desk screen and ~1-4% acceptance. Anticipates referee reports; it does not write the post-decision response letter (see qje-rebuttal).

Use when assembling the data and code replication package for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript — required for accepted empirical papers under QJE's data-availability policy. Builds a reproducible deposit; it does not perform the analysis itself.

Use when building the robustness suite and online appendix for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript — the extensive checks QJE referees expect, exploiting the journal's no-page-limit norm. Plans and prioritizes robustness; it does not change the core identification design.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) via Editorial Express — single-PDF format, double-blind anonymization, author-date references, the no-fee policy, and supplementary files. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use when finalizing the main exhibits of a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript — making the paper figure-forward, with clean tables and self-contained notes that read well in QJE's single-PDF, author-date format. Designs exhibits; it does not run new analysis.

Use when a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript has a credible empirical result but no conceptual frame — to add the model or framework that turns a coefficient into a lesson with broad implications. Frames the result conceptually; it does not redesign the identification.

Use when scoping or pressure-testing a research question for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission — checks fit, the "big idea" bar, and breadth of the takeaway for QJE's general-interest readership. Diagnoses scope fit; it does not design the empirics.

Use when deciding which qje-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) submission. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.

Use when polishing prose, abstract, and introduction for a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript so the big idea lands fast for a general-interest reader. Reflects QJE's house style — long, ambitious, narrative-driven empirical papers. Polishes exposition; it does not change results or design.

Use to frame the contribution of a manuscript for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) so the industrial-organization advance is legible to the screening Editor and two referees within the hard page caps. Sharpens the one-sentence "so what"; it does not run the analysis.

Use when executing and stress-testing the empirical analysis for a RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) industrial-organization manuscript — estimating structural demand/supply, entry, auction, or reduced-form models, then running the robustness, counterfactual, and inference checks IO referees expect. Analysis discipline, not study design.

Use when the identification or estimation strategy is the bottleneck for a RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) industrial-organization manuscript — structural demand/supply, entry and dynamic games, auctions, or reduced-form designs off mergers and regulation. Stress-tests the design to the IO-flagship bar before tables are drafted.

Use to position a manuscript against the industrial-organization frontier for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — staking the contribution against prior IO work without a standalone survey, and citing in the RJE author-date style (no page numbers, no issue numbers). Positioning, not a literature review.

Use when responding to a revise-and-resubmit from The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — answering the two anonymous referees and the handling Editor on an industrial-organization manuscript while respecting the hard page caps and RJE house style. Strategy for the response letter; it does not rewrite the article.

Use to assemble a reproducible replication package for a RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) industrial-organization manuscript and to handle RJE's supporting-information rules correctly — the journal discourages supplementary material and does not host data/code itself. Reflects what is and is NOT confirmed in RJE policy.

Use to understand and plan around The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) review pipeline — the upfront editor screen (possible desk reject), peer review by two anonymous referees, and a final read by the handling Editor. Sets expectations and shapes a submission that clears the first screen.

Use when running the final pre-submission preflight for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) via the Wiley Research Exchange portal — hard page caps (40/50 pp, double-spaced), the <=100-word abstract, the $100 non-refundable submission fee, Word/LaTeX files, and RJE Style Guide compliance. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use to design tables and figures for a RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) industrial-organization manuscript — parameter, elasticity, markup, merger-simulation, and counterfactual-welfare exhibits — formatted under the RJE Style Guide (numbered sections, unnumbered subsections, flush-right equations) and disciplined by the hard page caps. Exhibit design, not estimation.

Use to test whether a research question fits The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) — the flagship industrial-organization journal with a deliberately narrow applied-microeconomics scope (regulated industries, antitrust/competition, market structure, firm strategy, the economics of organizations). Screens fit before you invest in a full draft.

Router for The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) manuscript lifecycle — decides which rje-* skill to use next for an industrial-organization paper, from IO topic fit through Wiley Research Exchange submission and referee response. Start here when unsure.

Use to make a manuscript conform to The RAND Journal of Economics (RJE) Style Guide — author-date citations with no page numbers, references with no issue numbers, numbered sections with unnumbered subsections, flush-right equation numbering, and the journal's distinctive house usage rules. Style and usage polish, not content drafting.

Use to frame the marginal contribution of a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript — stating the quantitative or dynamic advance in terms the SED readership values (a new mechanism, a new method, a new quantitative result, or model-disciplining evidence) and aligning the abstract and introduction around it.

Use for the quantitative analysis behind a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript — calibration, moment-matching, structural estimation, and numerical-solution discipline for dynamic models, plus reproducible-computation hygiene that the RED code-first culture expects. Lighter on raw empirics for purely theoretical papers; focused on numerical examples and reproducible computation there.

Use to make the inferential backbone of a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript credible, adapting to the paper type. For theoretical/computational papers it covers model assumptions, regularity conditions, and what disciplines the parameters; for empirical dynamic papers it covers causal design. RED's scope spans all three, so this skill branches accordingly.

Use to position a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript within the dynamic-economics and SED literature — mapping the quantitative-macro lineage a paper builds on, citing in author-year style, and making the marginal advance legible to the Society for Economic Dynamics readership rather than a generalist audience.

Use to plan the response-to-referees after a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) revise-and-resubmit — structuring a point-by-point reply for a single-anonymized, two-referee process, prioritizing model/quantitative concerns, and remembering that second-and-later resubmissions are exempt from the submission fee. Strategy; it does not write the paper.

Use to build the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) data-and-code archive to the journal's actual "Availability of Data and Computer Code for Published Papers" policy — covering computational and empirical papers, the specific readme.txt requirements, .zip/.gz/.gzip submission to the RED code editor, posting on the RED site, RePEc Computer Codes indexing, and the proprietary-data exemption.

Use to understand and plan around the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) editorial process — the editor desk/suitability screen, single-anonymized refereeing with a minimum of two reviewers, and SED's fast ~two-month average post-desk turnaround. Sets expectations and timelines; it is not the submission preflight (see red-submission).

Use for the final pre-submission preflight for the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) — the USD 175 fee (USD 100 all-student; waived on second-and-later resubmissions) that gates review, submission via the ScienceDirect page through Elsevier Editorial Manager, the ≤250-word abstract, 1-6 keywords, author-year references, single-anonymized (no anonymization) format, AI declaration, and optional SSRN preprint. Final checks; it does not draft content.

Use to design the exhibits of a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript — impulse-response functions, calibration tables, moment-matching (model-vs-data) tables, policy-experiment figures, and accuracy diagnostics — so a quantitative dynamic paper communicates its mechanism and fit clearly to the SED readership.

Use to test whether a research question fits the Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) — a journal whose scope is defined by method and lens (dynamic, quantitative economics) rather than subfield. Helps decide if the paper studies a genuinely dynamic mechanism through a dynamic model, and whether it belongs at RED versus a generalist or a specialist outlet.

Use to map the end-to-end lifecycle of a Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) manuscript — from confirming dynamic/quantitative scope, through the USD 175 fee and ScienceDirect/Editorial Manager submission, the single-anonymized two-referee review, the code-first data/code archive, to the revise-and-resubmit. Orchestration; it routes to the other red- skills rather than drafting content.

Use for Review of Economic Dynamics (RED) house style — the stand-alone abstract not exceeding 250 words, author-year (Harvard-style) references, 1 to 6 keywords, LaTeX via Elsevier's elsarticle class under "your paper your way", and the generative-AI declaration. Drafting conventions for a quantitative dynamic paper; it does not invent results.