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A rigorous checklist and guide for conducting causal inference in development economics, specifically tailored to the high standards of top-tier journals like The World Bank Economic Review (WBER). It covers advanced econometric designs (RCT, DiD, RD, IV), focusing not just on estimation but on defining the estimand, addressing external validity, general equilibrium effects, and translating local findings into actionable policy recommendations.

A comprehensive guide for researchers handling academic revisions after receiving a journal decision letter (R&R). It teaches how to triage critical feedback from multiple referees, prioritize the editor's synthesis, structure detailed point-by-point responses using quantitative evidence, and sequence the revision work to maximize the chances of publication.

A comprehensive guide for assembling a reproducible data and code package for publishing economic manuscripts, specialized for World Bank Economic Review (WBER) standards. It details best practices for data availability statements, handling restricted microdata, pinning software versions, and ensuring full transparency throughout the analysis pipeline.

Provides comprehensive guidelines for designing and auditing academic tables and figures, specifically for development economics journals. It teaches how to translate statistical coefficients into actionable policy magnitudes, validate research design (e.g., balance checks, pre-trends), and adhere to strict page limits while maintaining clarity for both economists and policymakers.

Provides comprehensive guidelines for packaging and submitting research artifacts (datasets, models, code) for major conferences. It details the difference between mere 'existence' (badge verification) and true academic 'reproducibility,' covering archival strategies, web data licensing, takedown resilience, and minimal viable package structure for long-term scholarly impact.

A comprehensive guide for authors submitting papers to web conferences. It details how to structure empirical claims, ensuring evidence matches the claim's scope (scale, freshness, generalizability). The guide covers avoiding methodological flaws like temporal or popularity leakage, selecting datasets with proper provenance, and performing rigorous ablations and statistical analysis for maximum academic rigor.

A comprehensive guide for ensuring the scientific reproducibility of research papers that rely on dynamic web data, such as web crawls, platform APIs, or live system traffic. It defines three reproducibility regimes (Frozen, Decaying, Unreplayable) and provides detailed instructions on documenting data decay, temporal splits, environment configurations, and computational seeds to maintain the rigor of published findings.

This skill is a specialized guide used by authors to evaluate the fit and required rigor for submitting development economics manuscripts to the World Bank Economic Review (WBER). It assesses the manuscript's alignment with the journal's focus on policy-relevant empirical micro and macro research, covering methodological standards (RCTs, IV, DiD), required policy framing, and structural formatting.

This guide assists researchers in assessing the suitability of their manuscripts for the World Economic Papers. It covers the journal's focus on international economics, open macro, and global value chains. It provides detailed checks on formatting requirements (abstract, references), assesses methodological suitability (e.g., GVC decomposition), and identifies potential submission pitfalls, ensuring academic rigor before targeting a high-level academic journal.

This skill provides a comprehensive framework for targeting and revising academic manuscripts for the journal World Economic Studies. It analyzes the journal's scope, focusing on globalization, open strategy, international trade, and regional economics. It guides users on required advanced methodologies (e.g., GVC decomposition, panel data), structural mandates, and common submission pitfalls to ensure manuscripts meet high academic standards.

This guide outlines the rigorous standards for establishing causal claims in development economics and social sciences. It covers robust quantitative methods (like DID, IV, RDD, RCT) and structured qualitative/mixed-methods approaches. The core principle is that the logical route from evidence to claim must be explicitly defensible and matched to the strength of the assertion, avoiding over-claiming.

A comprehensive guide for preparing replication and transparency packages for World Development manuscripts. It provides checklists and best practices for both quantitative (code reproducibility, data provenance, de-identification) and qualitative (evidence-to-claim trail, methods appendix) research. It addresses ethical constraints and the unique challenges of double-anonymized review.