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jeea-identification
Use when the identification argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) manuscript — credible causal identification in an empirical design, parameter identification in a structural/quantitative model, or the source of identification in a theory paper. Stress-tests the strategy to JEEA's general-interest bar before exhibits are finalized.
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# Identification Strategy (jeea-identification)
## When to trigger
- An empirical causal claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered timing
- A structural model's parameters are estimated but it is unclear *what in the data* identifies them
- A theory paper's result depends on assumptions whose role is not transparent
- You are unsure the identification clears JEEA's general-interest theory-and-empirics bar
## The JEEA identification bar
JEEA spans **theory and empirics**, so "identification" means different things by branch — but in every case the **mapping from assumptions/data to the object of interest must be explicit and defended**, and credible enough for a general-interest readership and a co-editor who is not a subfield specialist. JEEA's house norms reinforce this: report **standard errors and confidence sets** (no significance asterisks/boldface for significance) and make the empirical strategy reproducible for the **JEEA Data Editor's pre-acceptance replication check** (DCAS). Pick the branch and make the argument legible.
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