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GitHub针对《发展经济学杂志》(JDE) 的投稿适配与重述工具。用于评估稿件契合度、方法严谨性及期刊风格，提供拒稿风险预警及替代期刊建议，辅助作者将研究重构为具有广泛发展意义的贡献。
Trigger Scenarios
作者指定 JDE 或顶级发展经济学期刊为目标
在发展与应用微观领域间选择投稿 venue
需要将单一场景结果重构为具有外部普遍意义的发展机制
提交前需了解 JDE 快速拒稿风险及替代期刊列表
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill journal-of-development-economics -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "journal-of-development-economics",
"description": "Use when targeting Journal of Development Economics (JDE) or deciding whether a development-economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics."
}
Journal of Development Economics (journal-of-development-economics)
Journal positioning
The Journal of Development Economics (JDE) is the field flagship for development economics, publishing the most consequential micro-development work and the growth-and-institutions questions of low- and middle-income economies. The paper that wins here pairs a first-order development question with credible identification — an RCT, a natural experiment, or a structural model — in a low/middle-income setting, and draws a lesson that travels beyond the one context. The readership is development economists who care about poverty, growth, and policy in the developing world.
This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the publisher's own site or submission system.
When to trigger
- The author names JDE (or a top development outlet) as the target venue.
- A paper studies a development question in a low/middle-income setting and the author is choosing among development and applied-micro venues.
- An applied-micro or field-experiment paper needs re-framing so the development mechanism and external lesson, not the single-site result, is the contribution.
- The author needs JDE's desk-reject risks and a credible development / applied-micro alternative list before submitting.
Scope & topic fit
- Micro-development: RCTs and quasi-experiments on health, education, credit, agriculture, firms, labor, and social programs in developing economies.
- Poverty, inequality, and the economic lives of the poor; risk, insurance, and informal institutions.
- Growth, structural transformation, and institutions in low/middle-income settings when framed for a development audience.
- Political economy, conflict, migration, and governance in developing contexts.
Method & evidence bar
- Credible identification is the desk filter: well-designed RCTs (with attention to power, attrition, spillovers, and pre-analysis plans), natural experiments, RDD, IV with a defensible exclusion, or modern DiD estimators.
- Naive TWFE on staggered rollout, weak instruments, and unaddressed selection/attrition are treated as fatal; inference (including multiple-hypothesis adjustment for many outcomes) must match current standards.
- A single-site RCT needs a mechanism and an argument for what it teaches beyond that site; structural development work needs identified parameters and a transparent mechanism.
- Data quality, sampling, and measurement in field settings are scrutinized; ethics and consent for field work are expected.
Structure & house style
- The introduction states the development question, the design/identification, the mechanism, the headline magnitude, and the external lesson, and says why it matters for development.
- Make the contribution explicit against the closest development work; "first to run X intervention in country Y" is not enough — name the conceptual or policy advance.
- The journal uses an unstructured abstract and JEL codes; an online appendix carries the pre-analysis plan link, robustness, balance/attrition tables, and data construction.
- Exhibits report economic magnitudes, treatment effects with proper inference, and mechanism evidence; the central result should be legible from one table or figure.
Official-submission checklist
- Before giving submission-ready advice, read
../../resources/source-basis.mdand../../resources/official-source-map.md; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Development Economics guide for authors / submission guidelines" and follow the current Elsevier version, not a third-party broker's copy.
- Re-check formatting, abstract/JEL codes, reference style, the online-appendix policy, the data & code / replication availability requirements, and any registered-report route.
- Re-check the current pre-registration / pre-analysis-plan and trial-registry expectations, ethics/IRB disclosure, and the replication-package requirement on the editorial system.
- If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win.
Pre-submission self-check
- One sentence stating why a development economist should change their view, and what this teaches beyond the study site.
- The contribution is stated as identification / mechanism / external lesson, not as a significant treatment effect alone.
- The introduction positions the paper against the current micro-development / growth-and-institutions frontier.
- Identification is credible; RCT/quasi-experimental choices, attrition, spillovers, and multiple-testing are handled to current standards.
- Pre-analysis plan, ethics/IRB, data, and the replication package are documented and ready.
Common desk-reject triggers
- A single-site RCT with a significant effect but no mechanism and no argument for external relevance.
- Identification the field no longer accepts (naive TWFE on staggered rollout, weak IV, unaddressed attrition/selection).
- Many outcomes mined for significance without pre-registration or multiple-testing discipline.
- A descriptive paper about a developing country with no credible identification or development lesson.
Re-routing decision
- General-interest development at top-5 ambition →
american-economic-revieworaej-applied-economics. - Long-run growth, deep roots, and cross-country development →
journal-of-economic-growth. - Labor outcomes in developing settings without a development core →
journal-of-labor-economics; public programs/taxation →journal-of-public-economics. - Broad development practice and policy →
world-development; health interventions →journal-of-health-economics.
Output format
[Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason)
[Target] Journal of Development Economics
[Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics>
[Method/evidence] <does the identification + external lesson clear this venue's bar?>
[Top risk] <the single most likely reason for rejection>
[Official items to re-check] <submission system / JEL / pre-analysis plan / ethics / replication>
[Re-route suggestion] <if not a fit, a better-matched venue>
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