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Use when a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) decision letter has arrived (R&R or reject-with-encouragement) and you need the response-letter strategy — triaging editor vs. referee asks, sequencing new analysis, and writing point-by-point replies for the identification and policy referee archetypes. Plans the revision; it does not run the new analysis.

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# Rebuttal Strategy (wber-rebuttal)

## When to trigger

- A WBER decision letter arrived (R&R, major/minor revision, or reject-with-encouragement)
- You need to triage which referee asks are deal-breakers vs. optional
- The two referees disagree, or one is identification-focused and the other policy-focused
- You are deciding what new analysis is worth running before resubmitting
- You need to draft the point-by-point response letter

## Read the letter through the WBER lens

WBER revisions almost always hit the journal's two-part bar: the **identification referee** wants the design hardened; the **policy referee** wants relevance, external validity, and cost. The editor's letter is the binding document — **the editor's synthesis outranks any single referee**, and the editor will signal which concerns are essential. Read the editor's framing first, then map each referee point to a referee archetype so your tone and evidence fit the reader. Single-anonymized review means the referees know who you are; engage them as informed colleagues, not adversaries.
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