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jebo-identification
Use when the design that isolates a behavioral mechanism is the bottleneck for a Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (JEBO) manuscript — lab/field experiment, observational causal design, or simulation. Stress-tests experimental and observational identification to JEBO's behavioral-credibility bar; it does not write prose or build the deposit.
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# Identification Strategy (jebo-identification)
## When to trigger
- A lab/field experiment's treatment, incentives, or comprehension are not pinned down
- An effect could be an **experimenter-demand effect** rather than the claimed behavioral mechanism
- An observational behavioral claim rests on OLS + controls, or TWFE on staggered timing
- A study uses deception, or runs many treatments, and the inference/ethics implications are unaddressed
- You are unsure the design isolates the *behavioral* mechanism, not a confound
## The JEBO identification bar
JEBO judges identification through a **behavioral-mechanism** lens: the design must isolate the *psychological or institutional channel* the paper claims, not merely produce a significant difference. Because JEBO treats **experimental design as a first-class identification branch** alongside observational causal designs, "identification" means different things by branch — pick the branch and make the channel transparent. Inference must match the design (clustering at the level of randomization or assignment; few-cluster corrections).
