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Use when deciding whether a behavioral, experimental, or organizational question fits the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) rather than a sibling outlet, and how to frame it. Sharpens scope and the behavioral hook; it does not invent evidence, editors, or citations.

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# Topic Selection (jebo-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have a clean result but are unsure whether JEBO or a sibling (Experimental Economics, GEB, J. Economic Psychology, J. Public Economics) is the right home
- The paper is a good causal study but the **behavioral** angle is thin or bolted on
- A coauthor asks "is this behavioral enough for JEBO?"
- The question is interesting but the audience that would cite it is unclear

## What JEBO actually rewards

JEBO's organizing idea is **economic behavior outside the frictionless, fully-rational benchmark**: bounded rationality, social and other-regarding preferences, heuristics and biases, learning and adaptation, institutions and organizations as responses to behavioral constraints. A JEBO paper leads with a **behavioral mechanism** and uses whatever method (experiment, empirics, theory, simulation) best identifies it. The test is not "is the design clean?" but "does this teach us something about how real economic agents actually decide and organize?"

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