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Provides comprehensive guidelines for structuring theoretical economics manuscripts for submission to AEJ: Micro. It enforces the theory-first approach, ensuring the introduction immediately presents the economic question and states the main result in words, thus maximizing impact for a broad micro audience. It also covers specific AEA house style conventions, such as reporting standard errors and structuring the abstract.

This guide provides stringent methodological standards for establishing credible causal claims in empirical policy manuscripts. It covers advanced econometric techniques—including Difference-in-Differences (DiD), Instrumental Variables (IV), Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), and Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT)—required to move beyond mere correlation and prove that the observed effect is genuinely caused by the policy intervention.

This guide outlines how to elevate a research paper beyond merely presenting new estimates. It teaches authors to frame their contributions around actionable policy gaps, welfare improvements, and cost-benefit analyses, ensuring the 'so what' for policymakers is the primary takeaway. Essential for academic writing in economics.

A comprehensive guide for authors preparing a rebuttal and response letter after a major journal revision (e.g., R&R). It structures the response to referees and editors, emphasizing the policy contribution and addressing every comment point-by-point. The guide stresses the need for evidence-led arguments, strengthening the welfare/policy reading, and ensuring reproducibility standards are met to successfully resubmit high-stakes academic research.

A comprehensive strategy guide for authors submitting policy-evaluation papers to top economics journals. It details how expert referees evaluate manuscripts, focusing on four critical areas: policy interest, causal credibility, welfare reading, and robustness. This tool helps authors proactively anticipate and strengthen potential weaknesses before submission or during revision, significantly increasing the paper's chances of acceptance.

This package assists researchers in assembling a compliant data and code deposit for AEJ: Economic Policy manuscripts. It ensures adherence to the AEA Data and Code Availability Policy by structuring the openICPSR deposit, generating the required README, and managing restricted data access paths. It is critical for passing the mandated pre-publication reproducibility check.

This guide outlines how to structure a rigorous robustness program for economic policy manuscripts. It emphasizes defending the overall policy takeaway, rather than merely reporting coefficient significance. Users learn to address common econometric threats—such as specification changes, pre-trends, multiple testing, and selection on unobservables—using advanced techniques (e.g., Wild-cluster bootstrap, Oster bounds) to ensure the policy conclusion is stable and credible.

This guide details best practices for transforming raw econometric outputs (coefficients, significance stars) into self-contained, policy-message-carrying exhibits for top-tier economic journals (e.g., AEJ: Policy). It emphasizes replacing significance stars with standard errors (SEs) or confidence intervals (CIs), creating a 'headline exhibit' that communicates the policy effect in interpretable units, and structuring tables and figures for maximum clarity for non-academic policymakers.

A comprehensive guide for drafting and revising economic policy manuscripts, particularly the abstract and introduction. It teaches authors how to convert complex causal estimates into clear, actionable policy takeaways while adhering to rigorous academic house style, ensuring claims are calibrated and non-overstated.

This skill is a comprehensive tool designed to help authors evaluate the suitability of their economics manuscript for AER: Insights. It guides users through assessing key criteria such as the general interest of a single result, the required conciseness, methodological strength, and adherence to the journal's specific short-format house style and submission guidelines. Use it for venue selection and manuscript re-framing.

This guide provides rigorous methodological guidelines for ensuring the identification strategy in high-impact empirical economics papers (AER: Insights). It covers key areas including Difference-in-Differences (DiD), Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), Instrumental Variables (IV), and structural parameter identification. It emphasizes the need for extreme methodological clarity, transparency, and conciseness required for top-tier academic publication.

A guide for academic writers on how to succinctly position a research contribution against the single closest prior work in highly constrained formats (e.g., AER: Insights). It teaches authors to state the novelty (the 'delta') in one or two paragraphs, avoiding full literature reviews and focusing only on the marginal contribution.