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Use when anticipating the objections a The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) referee will raise for a given design, and pre-empting them in the manuscript before submission. Maps threats to defenses; it does not draft the post-decision response letter (that is restat-rebuttal).

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# Referee Strategy (restat-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The design is settled and you want to pre-empt the obvious referee objections
- You need to decide which robustness checks belong in the paper vs the online appendix
- You want to write the intro/robustness so a referee's first question is already answered
- Before submission, to stress-test the manuscript against a REStat referee's mindset

## The REStat referee mindset

REStat referees are **applied economists who attack identification and measurement first**. They ask: *Is the design actually clean? Is everything measured well enough to support the claim? Would the result survive the specification I would run? Does the conclusion exceed the evidence?* Because REStat publishes across many applied fields, expect a referee who knows your subfield's data quirks intimately. The winning manuscript **answers the top objection inside the paper** — one paragraph plus one exhibit — before the referee can raise it.

## Threat → pre-emption map by design
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