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journal-of-development-economics
Use when targeting Journal of Development Economics (JDE) or deciding whether a development-economics manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Journal of Development Economics (journal-of-development-economics)
## Journal positioning
The Journal of Development Economics (JDE) is the field flagship for development economics, publishing the most consequential micro-development work and the growth-and-institutions questions of low- and middle-income economies. The paper that wins here pairs a first-order development question with credible identification — an RCT, a natural experiment, or a structural model — in a low/middle-income setting, and draws a lesson that travels beyond the one context. The readership is development economists who care about poverty, growth, and policy in the developing world.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the publisher's own site or submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names JDE (or a top development outlet) as the target venue.
- A paper studies a development question in a low/middle-income setting and the author is choosing among development and applied-micro venues.
- An applied-micro or field-experiment paper needs re-framing so the development mechanism and external lesson, not the single-site result, is the contribution.
- The author needs JDE's desk-reject risks and a credible development / applied-micro alternative list before submitting.