Skill UI

This skill guides authors through the rigorous requirements of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. It helps evaluate whether an applied economics manuscript meets the journal's high bar, focusing specifically on the joint criteria of sound causal identification (DiD, IV, RDD) and clear, impactful policy relevance. Use it to re-frame arguments and check against best practices for policy evaluation.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for defending causal identification claims in empirical microeconomics, tailored for top-tier journals like AEJ: Applied. It covers modern techniques and anti-patterns for RCTs, Difference-in-Differences (DiD), Regression Discontinuity (RDD), and Instrumental Variables (IV), ensuring the mapping from variation to the causal estimand is explicit, defensible, and falsifiable.

A comprehensive guide for academic researchers responding to R&R or conditional acceptance decisions for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). This skill structures the response-to-referees letter and revision plan, emphasizing the triage of reviewer comments, adherence to editor priorities (especially concerning identification and robustness), and maintaining a professional, evidence-based tone. It helps authors transform critical feedback into a concrete, actionable revision strategy.

This guide provides a comprehensive, advanced strategy for academic researchers writing microeconometric papers for top-tier journals (e.g., AEJ: Applied). It teaches authors how to anticipate sophisticated, technical objections from expert referees (such as issues with causal inference design, selection bias, or parallel trends). The focus is on pre-empting these objections by integrating solutions directly into the manuscript text, rather than waiting for a formal revision letter.

This guide outlines the mandatory steps and components required to assemble a robust, reproducible data and code replication package for submissions to the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It ensures compliance with the stringent AEA Data and Code Availability Policy, covering data provenance, master scripts, and version control. This package must be built iteratively, not at the acceptance stage.

This guide details how to construct a sophisticated and rigorous robustness suite for top-tier academic econometrics journals (e.g., AEJ: Applied). It moves beyond simple regression tables, providing targeted checks against common methodological threats such as omitted variables, specification search, functional form choices, and incorrect statistical inference. The goal is to systematically demonstrate that the main point estimate is stable, reliable, and not an artifact of the research design.

A comprehensive guide for formatting and presenting empirical results (tables and figures) for submission to the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It ensures that main causal estimates are immediately legible to referees by adhering to rigorous academic standards, including presenting standard errors, confidence intervals, and specific exhibit structures like event-study plots and balance tables.

This guide provides a methodology for integrating theoretical models into empirical economics papers, especially for journals emphasizing empirical findings (e.g., AEJ: Applied). It teaches researchers how to ensure that theoretical components—such as mechanisms, welfare statements, or counterfactuals—serve to interpret, sharpen, or guide the existing empirical estimates, rather than leading the paper or replacing the core identification provided by the design. Focus on sufficient statistics and minimal model assumptions is key.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for strengthening economic manuscripts submitted to top journals, such as AEJ: Micro. It details how to systematically test the robustness of main results through theoretical extensions (e.g., relaxing assumptions, perturbations) and applied/experimental methods (e.g., sensitivity analyses, placebo tests). Learn how to identify extensions that truly 'earn their place' and significantly enhance the overall academic contribution of your work.

This guide outlines the scope and submission requirements for the journal China Sport Science and Technology. It focuses specifically on application-oriented exercise science, covering competitive training, physical conditioning, physiological monitoring, technical analysis, and sports rehabilitation. It helps researchers determine the best fit for their work, distinguishing between purely theoretical research and practice-guided, evidence-based studies for athletic development.

This comprehensive workflow guides researchers through the entire academic publication lifecycle for submissions to the Chinese Journal of Management Science. It acts as a critical router, ensuring manuscripts cover essential stages: topic selection, advanced model formulation, algorithm design, empirical validation (out-of-sample testing), and generating actionable managerial insights. It helps prevent common pitfalls like lacking empirical depth or misaligning with the journal's core focus on applied modeling.

This guide helps researchers determine if their econometric result is a general, foundational theory contribution (such as asymptotics or proofs) or merely an applied estimate. It provides a framework for assessing theoretical rigor, identifying generalizations, and deciding whether the work fits a full Article or a concise Miscellanea, ensuring proper submission targeting for top-tier journals.