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American Economic Journal: Microeconomics Skills
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Twelve agent skills for manuscripts targeted at the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) — the American Economic Association's quarterly journal (founded 2009, one of four AEJs) for microeconomic theory and its applications (Print ISSN 1945-7669 / Online ISSN 1945-7685), submitted via the AEA submission system.
This repository is opinionated and theory-first. AEJ: Micro "publishes theoretical work as well as both empirical and experimental work with a theoretical framework," and the deciding criterion is a clean, general, well-motivated micro-theory result of broad interest — game theory, mechanism and market design, industrial-organization theory, contract theory, information economics, decision and behavioral theory, and theory-grounded experiments. The central skill is `aejmic-theory-model` (model setup, equilibrium concept, proof strategy, generality vs. tractability). Empirical, structural, and experimental work belongs here only when the theory is the point.
Official basis checked 2026-06: AEJ: Micro journal home, editors, submission guidelines, and editorial policy on aeaweb.org, plus the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy / Office of the AEA Data Editor. See resources/official-source-map.md.
Why a Separate AEJ: Micro Skill Stack?
AEJ: Micro's constraints differ materially from an empirical flagship and from specialist theory journals:
| Constraint | AEJ: Micro | Implication |
|---|---|---|
| Core deliverable | A clean, broadly interesting theorem / characterization | A coefficient with no central theory result is off-fit |
| Scope gate | Theory-first; empirical/experimental with a theory framework | Stand-alone empirical applied-micro belongs at AEJ: Applied |
| Audience | Broad micro interest + the AEA process | Maximal-generality, specialist-only work fits JET / GEB instead |
| "Identification" | Which assumption is doing the work; what makes it tight | For pure theory there is no causal design — credibility is the proof |
| House style | Numbered propositions; proofs in appendix; numerical examples | Narrative-empirical formatting reads as off-template |
| Statistical reporting | Standard errors / confidence sets, not significance asterisks | Asterisk tables are an AEA house-style anti-pattern |
| Review | Single-blind (referee sees author; referee anonymous) | No anonymization burden — the paper stands on rigor, not blinding |
| Abstract | ≤100 words | A long abstract fails the format check |
| Data / replication | AEA Data and Code Availability Policy (AEA Data Editor; openICPSR) | Empirical/simulation/experimental work verified before acceptance; theory deposits numerical-example code |
Volatile specifics — the current submission fee, the exact JEL-requirement wording, and the founding-year statement — are confirmed for 2026-06 where possible and otherwise marked 待核实. See resources/official-source-map.md.
Submission fee vs. publication fee, do not conflate: AEJ: Micro charges a submission fee (AEA member $200 / $100 / $0 by country income; nonmember higher — volatile) and, separately, a $15 per typeset page publication fee assessed at page proofs.
Quick Start
Option A — Claude Code Plugin (recommended)
/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills
/plugin install aej-microeconomics-skills
/reload-pluginsOption B — Manual Copy
git clone https://github.com/brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills.git
cd awesome-journal-skills/AEJ-Microeconomics-Skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -R skills/aejmic-* ~/.claude/skills/
# or
mkdir -p ~/.codex/skills && cp -R skills/aejmic-* ~/.codex/skills/First Prompt
Use aejmic-workflow to tell me which skill I should use next for my AEJ: Micro theory paper.Default Workflow
aejmic-topic-selection (broad-interest micro-theory fit? not JET/GEB/TE/AEJ:Applied)
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aejmic-literature-positioning (stake the theorem-relative delta vs. the closest result)
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aejmic-theory-model ★ CENTRAL: model, equilibrium concept, proof strategy
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aejmic-identification (which assumption is doing the work / what identifies it)
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aejmic-robustness (extensions, edge cases, applied robustness)
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aejmic-tables-figures (propositions, numerical examples, experimental tables)
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aejmic-writing-style (theory-paper intro arc; polish — last)
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aejmic-replication-package (proof appendix + numerical/structural/experimental code)
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aejmic-referee-strategy (pre-empt the objections theory referees raise)
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aejmic-submission (AEA system preflight: single-blind, 100-word abstract, fee)
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aejmic-rebuttal (single-blind R&R response letter)aejmic-workflow is the router — it tells you which skill to use next based on where you are.
Skills
| Skill | Purpose |
|---|---|
aejmic-workflow | Router — decides which sub-skill to invoke next |
aejmic-topic-selection | Theory-first, broad-interest scope gate (vs. JET/GEB, TE/Econometrica, AEJ:Applied) |
aejmic-literature-positioning | Theorem-relative delta against the closest existing result |
aejmic-identification | What makes the result tight (theory) / what the data identify (structural/exp.) |
aejmic-theory-model | Central — model setup, equilibrium concept, proof strategy, generality |
aejmic-robustness | Extensions, edge cases, perturbations; applied/experimental robustness |
aejmic-tables-figures | Propositions, numerical examples, schematic figures, empirical tables |
aejmic-writing-style | AEA house style and the theory-paper intro arc |
aejmic-replication-package | Proof appendix + AEA Data Editor code/data deposit (incl. numerical examples) |
aejmic-referee-strategy | Anticipate expert-referee objections; read the single-blind process |
aejmic-submission | AEA system preflight (single-blind, 100-word abstract, JEL, fee, data policy) |
aejmic-rebuttal | R&R response strategy (correctness / generality / exposition) |
Resources
resources/README.md— capability layer index; theory vs. empirical-subset splitresources/official-source-map.md— official AEA / AEJ: Micro URLs behind every fact, with待核实flagsresources/external_tools.md— LaTeX/proof toolchain plus the structural/empirical/experimental kitresources/exemplars/library.md— real, web-verified AEJ: Micro papers by area (10.1257/micDOI stem)resources/worked-examples/01-introduction.md— before→after theory-paper introduction in AEJ: Micro styleresources/code/— runnable Stata/Python skeleton for the empirical/structural subset only
Differences vs. Other Stacks
| Dimension | AEJ: Micro | JET / GEB (specialist theory) | AEJ: Applied (empirical) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead with | A broadly interesting theorem | A general/technical theory advance | A causal empirical finding |
| "Identification" | Which assumption is load-bearing | Assumptions + maximal generality | Design (RCT/DID/IV/RDD) |
| Audience / process | Broad micro + AEA editorial process | Specialist theory community | Applied-micro + AEA process |
| Review | Single-blind | Single/double per journal | Single-blind |
| Data / replication | AEA Data Editor; openICPSR | Encouraged, varies | AEA Data Editor; openICPSR |
| House style | Numbered props; SEs not asterisks | Theorem-proof, publisher LaTeX | Author-date; SEs not asterisks |
What This Repo Does Not Do
- It does not write a submittable proof or manuscript for you
- It does not check whether your theorem is correct — that is the author's and referees' job
- It does not assert volatile metadata (current fee, exact JEL wording, founding year) — these are marked
待核实or dated 2026-06; verify on the official AEA page - It does not judge whether your contribution is genuinely original or broadly interesting — that is the researcher's call
Related
- awesome-journal-skills — Index of journal-specific skill packs
- AEJ: Microeconomics (official) — American Economic Association
License
MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Bryce Wang. See LICENSE.