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restat-literature-positioning
Use when the marginal contribution of a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) manuscript against the closest prior work is fuzzy, generic, or oversold. Stakes the contribution precisely; it does not run analysis or write the full literature review.
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# Literature Positioning (restat-literature-positioning)
## When to trigger
- The intro's "we contribute to several literatures" reads as a citation dump
- A referee could ask "how is this different from [obvious prior paper]?" and you lack a one-line answer
- The contribution is stated as a topic ("we study X") rather than a delta against named work
- You are unsure whether your measurement / identification advance is genuinely new
## The REStat positioning bar
REStat referees are applied economists who **know the closest five papers cold**. Positioning must be a **precise delta against named work**, not a tour of a literature. Because REStat prizes **measurement and credible identification**, the most persuasive deltas are of two kinds: (1) **identification delta** — your design credibly estimates a parameter prior work could only correlate or estimate under weaker assumptions; (2) **measurement delta** — you measure the object better (new data, less error, a validated index) and that *changes an applied conclusion*. "First to study" is rarely the contribution; "first to credibly identify / cleanly measure, and it overturns/sharpens [conclusion]" is.
## How to stake the contribution