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qe-contribution-framing

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Use to sharpen the one-sentence contribution of a Quantitative Economics (QE) manuscript so a general-interest Econometric Society reader sees the quantitative payoff immediately. Frames the claim and its scope; it does not redo estimation or write full prose.

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# Contribution Framing (qe-contribution-framing)

## When to trigger

- The "so what?" of the paper is not crisp in one sentence
- Reviewers (or co-authors) disagree about what the paper's main point actually is
- The contribution is described as a method or a dataset rather than as an answer
- The claim's scope (what it does and does not establish) is blurry

## Framing the QE contribution

QE publishes papers that **apply quantitative methods to substantive economic questions**, so the contribution should be framed as a **quantitative answer**, not as machinery. A QE-fit contribution sentence names three things: the **question**, the **quantity** you deliver (an estimate, a counterfactual, a welfare number, a measured fact), and the **lesson** that travels beyond the setting. Frame against the Econometric Society lens: if the only honest framing is "we propose a new estimator," the paper belongs at Econometrica; QE wants "using [method], we answer [question] and find [quantity], which implies [lesson]."

Match the framing to the paper type:
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