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aeja-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating the objections a sophisticated American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) referee will raise, so a manuscript pre-empts them before submission or addresses them in revision. Plans the defense; it does not draft the response letter (aeja-rebuttal) or run the submission preflight (aeja-submission).
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# Referee Strategy (aeja-referee-strategy)
## When to trigger
- The paper is near submission and you want to stress-test it against the referees it will draw
- You need to decide which robustness checks to run *before* submitting vs. hold in reserve
- An R&R arrived and you must map referee concerns to concrete responses
- You want to understand how AEJ: Applied's single-blind peer-review process shapes strategy
## How AEJ: Applied review works (plan around it)
AEJ: Applied uses **single-blind review** through the AEA ScholarOne system: author identities are visible to referees, while referee identities remain anonymous to authors. An editor assigns the paper to a coeditor or handles it directly, and before a first R&R the handling coeditor consults a second coeditor. Referees here are **identification-literate applied microeconomists**; the modal report attacks the *credibility of the design* first, then magnitude/mechanism, then external validity. The editor weighs whether the contribution is novel *and* the design clears the bar. Plan to **pre-empt the predictable objections in the paper itself**, leaving the response letter for genuinely new asks.
## The objection map (pre-empt in the paper)