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restat-referee-strategy

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Use when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before submission. Maps threats to defenses; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (that is restat-rebuttal).

When to use

• pre-empting referee objections
• deciding robustness checks placement
• writing intro/robustness sections
• stress-testing manuscript against REStat referee mindset
• ranking design-specific threats
• budgeting main text vs online appendix

When not to use

• drafting the post-decision response letter
• restat-rebuttal

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