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Twelve agent skills for manuscripts targeted at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) — the American Economic Association's quarterly journal for empirical applied microeconomics with credible causal identification (labor, development, health, education, public, urban, environmental, household finance). The pack is identification-driven and empirical-first: it routes a manuscript from venue fit and a clean research design, through robustness, exhibits, and AEA house-style writing, into the signature AEA Data and Code Availability Policy — the openICPSR replication package that the AEA Data Editor checks for reproducibility before publication — and on through single-blind submission and the R&R rebuttal.
Official basis checked 2026-06-20: AEA / AEJ: Applied journal, editors, editorial policy, reviewer, submission, style, disclosure, and data/code pages. Sources and live-check boundaries are in resources/official-source-map.md.
| AEJ: Applied constraint | What it forces on the manuscript |
|---|---|
| Empirical-first applied micro | A credible causal design is the contribution; theory only interprets/structures |
| Single-blind review | Author identities are visible to referees; referee identities remain anonymous |
| AEA online submission + JEL codes | JEL codes required; title/byline/affiliations on first page; member/nonmember fee |
| AEA Data & Code Availability Policy | Data + code deposited to the AEA Data and Code Repository on openICPSR |
| Pre-publication reproducibility check (AEA Data Editor, Lars Vilhuber) | Tables/figures must regenerate from the deposited package before publication |
| AEA house presentation | 100-word abstract; stars permitted but standard errors expected; self-contained exhibit notes; online appendix |
As a Claude Code plugin — point your marketplace at this directory and enable the plugin:
/plugin marketplace add ./AEJ-Applied-Economics-Skills
/plugin install aej-applied-economics-skillsManually — each skill is a self-contained SKILL.md under skills/. Open skills/aeja-workflow/SKILL.md first; it routes you to the right skill for your current stage.
aeja-topic-selection → aeja-literature-positioning → aeja-identification → aeja-theory-model
→ aeja-robustness → aeja-tables-figures → aeja-writing-style → aeja-replication-package
→ aeja-referee-strategy → aeja-submission → aeja-rebuttal
(aeja-workflow routes among all of the above)| # | Skill | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | aeja-workflow | Router — diagnose the current bottleneck and route to the right skill |
| 2 | aeja-topic-selection | Decide AEJ: Applied vs AER / AEJ: Policy / a field journal; sharpen the question |
| 3 | aeja-literature-positioning | Stake the marginal contribution against the closest prior work |
| 4 | aeja-identification | Stress-test the causal design (RCT / DID / RD / IV / shift-share) |
| 5 | aeja-theory-model | Right-size theory to interpret/structure the estimate, not lead it |
| 6 | aeja-robustness | Show the headline survives specification, sample, and inference |
| 7 | aeja-tables-figures | Make the main result legible in one exhibit in AEA house style |
| 8 | aeja-writing-style | Land the question and estimate in the first paragraph |
| 9 | aeja-replication-package | Build the openICPSR package for the AEA Data Editor check |
| 10 | aeja-referee-strategy | Pre-empt the objections this design invites |
| 11 | aeja-submission | Final preflight: front matter, JEL, fee, format, declarations |
| 12 | aeja-rebuttal | Draft the response-to-referees letter and revision plan |
resources/README.md — capability-layer indexresources/official-source-map.md — official AEA URLs behind every factresources/external_tools.md — data sources, software, packagesresources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md — a before→after AEJ: Applied introduction (fictional)resources/exemplars/library.md — real, web-verified AEJ: Applied papers by method × topicresources/code/ — reproducible Stata + Python causal-inference skeleton| Journal | Niche | This pack's positioning |
|---|---|---|
| AEJ: Applied | Identification-driven applied micro of broad interest | The target of this pack |
| American Economic Review (AER) | General-interest, agenda-setting, longer | AEJ: Applied takes more specialized applied-micro work |
| AEJ: Economic Policy | Policy-question framing, program evaluation verdicts | AEJ: Applied is method/identification-driven, not policy-ROI |
| Field journals (JHE / JOLE / JDE) | Sub-field-internal contributions | AEJ: Applied wants wider applied-micro readership |
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