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jegeo-identification
Use when the inference argument is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript — spatial causal designs, quantitative-spatial model identification, or case-based geographic inference. Stress-tests the strategy to JEG's two-community bar before exhibits are finalized.
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# Identification Strategy (jegeo-identification)
## When to trigger
- A spatial regression rests on OLS + region fixed effects, or TWFE on staggered place-based policy
- A quantitative-spatial / NEG model is estimated but it is unclear *what in the spatial data* identifies the key elasticities
- Treatment in one region plausibly spills over to "control" regions (SUTVA across space is violated)
- A qualitative/comparative-case paper makes a causal-sounding claim with no explicit logic of inference
- You are unsure the strategy reads as credible to BOTH an economist and a geographer
## The JEG identification bar
Because JEG bridges geographical economics and human geography, "identification" means different things by branch — but in all of them the **spatial structure of the data is part of the identification problem, not a nuisance**. Two threats are nearly universal at JEG and referees expect them confronted head-on: **spatial autocorrelation** in errors (inference) and **spatial spillovers / general-equilibrium leakage** across units (SUTVA). Pick the branch and make the data-to-claim mapping explicit.
