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Use when translating technical results, models, and methods into plain language for a Journal of Economic Perspectives (JEP) article — minimizing jargon and notation without dumbing down. Handles language and translation of ideas; defer evidence/number presentation to jep-evidence-without-equations and exhibits to jep-exhibits-for-general-readers.

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# Accessibility & Translation (jep-accessibility-and-translation)

## When to trigger

- The draft reads like a working paper with the proofs deleted
- A labor or macro economist who doesn't work on the topic gets lost
- Sentences carry notation, estimator names, or subfield jargon a generalist won't know
- You worry that simplifying will make the piece sound shallow

## The JEP accessibility bar

JEP articles should be readable by **90 percent or more of the AEA membership** and useful to economists **not conversant with the author's subspecialty**; the journal is "scholarly without relying too heavily on mathematical notation," explaining ideas through **economic intuition** rather than derivations (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Translation is **not** simplification of the *ideas* — it is removing the *barriers* (notation, jargon, insider shorthand) that hide the ideas from a smart non-specialist.

## Translation moves (technical → JEP)
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