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This guide helps researchers determine if their applied microeconomics work meets the rigorous standards of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It serves as a pre-submission checklist, detailing the required depth of causal identification (e.g., RCTs, DiD, IV), methodological robustness, expected manuscript structure, and avoiding common desk-reject pitfalls. Essential for high-quality academic writing.

This skill guides authors through the rigorous requirements of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. It helps evaluate whether an applied economics manuscript meets the journal's high bar, focusing specifically on the joint criteria of sound causal identification (DiD, IV, RDD) and clear, impactful policy relevance. Use it to re-frame arguments and check against best practices for policy evaluation.

This guide provides a rigorous framework for defending causal identification claims in empirical microeconomics, tailored for top-tier journals like AEJ: Applied. It covers modern techniques and anti-patterns for RCTs, Difference-in-Differences (DiD), Regression Discontinuity (RDD), and Instrumental Variables (IV), ensuring the mapping from variation to the causal estimand is explicit, defensible, and falsifiable.

This guide provides a comprehensive, advanced strategy for academic researchers writing microeconometric papers for top-tier journals (e.g., AEJ: Applied). It teaches authors how to anticipate sophisticated, technical objections from expert referees (such as issues with causal inference design, selection bias, or parallel trends). The focus is on pre-empting these objections by integrating solutions directly into the manuscript text, rather than waiting for a formal revision letter.

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 helps researchers strategically assess whether their empirical microeconomics project is best suited for the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). It provides a structured framework to test the project's causal design, scope, and cross-field appeal, ensuring the question is 'AEJ: Applied-shaped' rather than being too general (AER) or too specialized (Field Journal).

A comprehensive workflow router designed for authors submitting manuscripts to the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied). This skill guides the user through every stage of the academic writing process—from initial topic selection and literature positioning to causal identification, robustness checks, polishing, data replication package preparation, and final submission/rebuttal. It acts as a navigational guide, ensuring all critical steps required by top-tier economics journals are addressed in the correct sequence.

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).

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.

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.

A comprehensive framework for translating reduced-form causal estimates (e.g., elasticity, treatment effects) into explicit policy statements. It guides researchers on building clear welfare, cost-benefit, or optimal-policy models, defining sufficient statistics, and articulating distributional effects, ensuring policy claims are rigorously grounded in empirical data.

This skill acts as a central workflow router for manuscripts targeting the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (AEJ: Policy). It diagnoses the current stage of a paper—whether it's topic selection, design, modeling, writing, or rebuttal—and recommends the next specialized skill. It ensures the research maintains a strong focus on credible causal evidence and actionable policy implications.