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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 outlines the rigorous methodological standards for empirical identification in macroeconomics, crucial for submitting to top-tier journals. It covers advanced techniques such as Structural VAR (SVAR), Local Projections (LP), and handling high-frequency/micro-data shocks. It ensures authors explicitly defend the mapping from raw data to dynamic causal objects, addressing critical issues like endogeneity, anticipation, and structural breaks, and providing execution checklists for modern econometric tools (DiD, IV, RDD).

A comprehensive guide for assembling a fully reproducible research package for macroeconomics papers targeting the American Economic Journal (AEJ: Macro). It ensures compliance with the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy by documenting raw data, simulation/calibration code, estimation routines, and visualization steps, guaranteeing that results can be independently verified by reviewers.

A comprehensive framework designed to rigorously test the stability of key macroeconomic findings. This program addresses potential biases arising from specification choices, sample periods (e.g., Great Moderation, ZLB, COVID breaks), and methodological variations (SVAR vs. LP). It ensures that the reported headline quantity remains robust even when challenged by a skeptical academic referee, providing a targeted defense rather than simply listing extra tables. Ideal for high-stakes empirical macro papers.

A comprehensive guide for formatting research exhibits, including Impulse Response Functions (IRFs), fan charts, and econometric tables, specifically for submissions to the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (AEJ: Macro). This ensures all figures are self-contained, meet rigorous standards for clarity, and adhere to the latest macro conventions, allowing reviewers to quickly assess the quantitative evidence.

A comprehensive guide for authors aiming to rigorously prove the validity and robustness of their economic findings for top-tier journals. It covers three major pillars: pure theory (identifying load-bearing assumptions), structural econometrics (mapping parameters to data features), and experimental design (defining the estimand). Learn how to move beyond 'convergence' and establish true identification.

A comprehensive guide for submitting high-quality replication packages for academic journals like the American Economic Journal (AEJ: Micro). This package covers two essential components: self-contained, verifiable proofs for theoretical claims (the Proof Appendix), and a fully reproducible code and data deposit (the Code/Data Repository). It ensures that all numerical results, simulations, and empirical findings can be regenerated by the journal's editor, maintaining the highest standards of scientific transparency.

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 best practices for authors presenting theoretical and empirical results for top-tier journals like the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro). It covers structuring propositions, building transparent numerical examples, creating schematic figures, and formatting tables (including mandated use of standard errors over significance asterisks) to ensure maximum clarity and adherence to academic publishing standards.