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Use when deciding whether a question is a genuinely spatial, urban-economics contribution that fits the Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) rather than a sibling venue. Locks the spatial question and outlet fit before positioning; it does not write the literature review or design the identification.

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# Topic Selection (jue-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- The question is interesting but it is unclear it is *spatial* — could it be a labor or public-finance paper that merely uses geographic data?
- The paper sits on a boundary with **RSUE, Journal of Regional Science, JEG (OUP), or JPubE** and you must decide where it belongs
- A reviewer or coauthor asks "why is this urban economics?" and the answer is thin
- You have a clean result but no urban *mechanism* — only a geographic correlation
- You are choosing between a full JUE article and the short-paper **JUE: Insights** track

## Is this a JUE paper? The spatial-mechanism test

JUE publishes work where **space is constitutive of the economics**, not a label on the data. The question should turn on at least one spatial primitive: agglomeration economies, housing supply elasticity, land use & zoning, commuting/transportation, local public finance & Tiebout sorting, neighborhood effects, or spatial sorting/equilibrium. Run the manuscript through three gates:
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