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qje-theory-model

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Use when a Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) manuscript has a credible empirical result but no conceptual frame — to add the model or framework that turns a coefficient into a lesson with broad implications. Frames the result conceptually; it does not redesign the identification.

When to use

• Adding a model to a QJE manuscript
• Framing empirical results conceptually
• Defining the economic object of an estimate
• Making mechanisms into propositions
• Connecting estimates to welfare or policy
• Stating the broad lesson rigorously

When not to use

• Redesigning identification
• Creating standalone theory disconnected from data
• Using heavy structural models for JPE/ECMA fit
• Asserting mechanisms without testable predictions

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