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restat-topic-selection

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Use when deciding whether an applied-economics project fits The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) rather than AER / AEJ:Applied / J. Econometrics / a field journal, and sharpening the question to REStat's empirical-and-measurement bar. Decides venue fit and frames the question; it does not run the analysis.

When to use

• deciding venue fit for applied-economics projects
• sharpening questions to REStat's empirical-and-measurement bar
• framing measurement or identification contributions
• distinguishing REStat from AER, AEJ:Applied, J. Econometrics, and field journals
• deciding between Article and Short Paper formats

When not to use

• running the analysis
• developing new estimators with proofs
• field-internal contributions
• agenda-setting or general-interest papers
• method-first contributions

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