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er-theory-hypotheses

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Use when writing the theoretical analysis and hypothesis-development section of an Economic-Research manuscript — deriving testable, directional, falsifiable hypotheses that map one-to-one onto the empirical design.

When to use

• Writing theoretical analysis section
• Developing directional hypotheses
• Deriving falsifiable propositions
• Mapping hypotheses to empirical design
• Constructing mathematical models
• Logical deduction of mechanisms
• Addressing competing hypotheses

When not to use

• Writing literature review
• Presenting regression results in theory section
• Post-hoc explanation of results
• Running Y on M regressions for mechanism proof

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