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aejmic-identification

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Use when the question is what makes the result tight or what the data identify for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript — covering both (a) structural/empirical-IO and experimental identification and (b) for pure theory, which assumptions drive the result and how robust the mechanism is. Stress-tests credibility; it does not build the model (see aejmic-theory-model).

When to use

• identifying load-bearing assumptions in pure theory
• determining what data identify parameters in structural models
• pinning down estimands in experimental work
• stress-testing credibility of results
• decomposing assumptions for tightness
• auditing identification claims

When not to use

• building the model

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