QJE Manuscript Writing Style
Polishes economics research manuscripts to meet the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) narrative-driven, empirical house style.
The QJE Writing Style skill guides researchers in crafting, refining, and polishing empirical economics manuscripts according to the house style of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. It restructures manuscript introductions around the canonical QJE arc (question, identification hurdle, setting, headline result, and broad lesson), enforces concise ~150-word abstracts with explicit quantitative findings, and strips out technical throat-clearing in favor of high-impact narrative exposition. It ensures that technical complexities are appropriately moved to online appendices while making the core contribution immediately clear to general-interest economists.