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Use when anticipating referee and editor objections before submitting to The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) — pre-empting the predictable development-economics pushbacks (external validity, identification, data quality, policy relevance) and writing the cover letter. Plans defenses; it does not run new analysis.

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# Referee Strategy (wber-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The paper is near submission and you want to surface objections before a referee does
- You are writing the cover letter and choosing how to frame the contribution to the editor
- You suspect one referee will be a hard-identification economist and another a policy reader
- You want to decide which robustness checks to pre-load in the paper vs. hold for the response
- You are unsure whether the framing will survive the "is this a World Bank paper?" reflex

## Who referees WBER — and what they punish

WBER's review is **single-anonymized** (referees are anonymous; your name is on the title page), and editors (Eric Edmonds and Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth, 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准) draw on a development-economics referee pool that overlaps heavily with JDE, AEJ: Applied, and the AEA journals. Expect **two referee archetypes** and write for both:
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