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Use when the question is what makes the result tight or what the data identify for an American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (AEJ: Micro) manuscript — covering both (a) structural/empirical-IO and experimental identification and (b) for pure theory, which assumptions drive the result and how robust the mechanism is. Stress-tests credibility; it does not build the model (see aejmic-theory-model).

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# Identification & What Makes the Result Tight (aejmic-identification)

AEJ: Micro is theory-first, so "identification" here is **two things**. For pure theory it means: **which assumptions are doing the work**, and how tight/robust the mechanism is. For structural and experimental work it means the standard **data-to-object mapping**. Pick the branch.

## When to trigger

- (Theory) A referee asks whether the result is a knife-edge artifact of one assumption
- (Theory) You cannot say cleanly which primitive drives the comparative static
- (Structural) Parameters are estimated but it is unclear *what in the data* identifies them
- (Experimental) The estimand or the assumptions behind the treatment effect are not pinned down

## Branch A: Pure theory — what makes the result tight

The AEJ: Micro bar is that the reader sees **exactly which assumption is load-bearing** and how far the mechanism extends.
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