JDE Literature Positioning
Positions development economics manuscripts precisely against frontier literature to meet Journal of Development Economics (JDE) submission standards.
JDE Literature Positioning is a specialized academic workflow skill for Claude Code that helps researchers articulate their paper's exact marginal contribution for the Journal of Development Economics. Rather than drafting broad, generic literature surveys or relying on weak 'first to study X in country Y' claims, this tool conducts an executable positioning pass. It maps the incumbent conversation, pinpoints the binding open tension in frontier literature, and stakes a distinct causal, theoretical, or empirical increment to satisfy rigorous JDE peer-review standards.
Key Features
01Performs sibling-venue checks against journals like World Development, JPubE, and AEJ Applied
02Pinpoints binding literature gaps beyond generic 'little is known' statements
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04Articulates specific causal, empirical, or theoretical increments against competing studies
05Identifies precise development economics subliteratures and frontier benchmark papers
06Generates structured claim-evidence-risk ledgers to guide actionable manuscript edits
Use Cases
01Overcoming reviewer critiques demanding clarification on marginal contribution vs. existing RCTs/DID studies
02Assessing fit and re-routing papers between JDE and adjacent field journals based on policy and welfare scope
03Refining working paper introductions to clearly stake novelty before submitting to JDE