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Use when targeting American Economic Journal: Economic Policy or deciding whether a policy-relevant applied economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
When to use
- targeting American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
- deciding if a policy-relevant applied economics manuscript fits the venue
- evaluating fit for public, health, education, environmental, and tax/transfer policy papers
- checking method-and-evidence bar for policy evaluations
- reviewing house style and structure for AEJ: Economic Policy
- identifying desk-reject risks
- re-routing to alternative journals like AER or Journal of Public Economics
When not to use
- replacing the journal's current official submission guidelines
- papers where methodological novelty is the primary contribution
- descriptive policy commentary with no credible causal evidence
- general-interest policy importance papers (route to AER)
- core public-economics field-leading papers (route to Journal of Public Economics)
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