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Use when a 《经济学(季刊)》 (China Economic Quarterly, CEQ) manuscript has a credible main effect but the channel/mechanism is asserted rather than evidenced — to design tests that distinguish competing channels and provide falsifiable mechanism evidence. Use after identification is settled.

When to use

• Designing tests to distinguish competing channels
• Providing falsifiable mechanism evidence
• Upgrading mediation regression to falsifiable mechanisms
• Excluding competing channels
• Using heterogeneity to support mechanisms
• Checking temporal structure of mechanisms

When not to use

• Tasks where identification is not settled
• Using mediation regression significance alone as proof
• Listing multiple mechanisms without distinguishing them

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