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Use when anticipating the objections a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) referee will raise before submission, so the manuscript pre-empts them. Maps the recurring JUE spatial pushbacks to where each is answered in the paper; it does not run the analysis or draft the response letter (jue-rebuttal).

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# Referee Strategy (jue-referee-strategy)

## When to trigger

- The paper is close to submission and you want to pre-empt the predictable JUE objections
- You suspect a referee will say "this is sorting, not the treatment" and the paper does not answer it
- The control geography or spatial scale could be attacked and no pre-emptive check exists
- You need to decide which referee concerns to answer in the paper vs. flag for the editor
- A coauthor is over-confident that the design is bulletproof against spatial critiques

## The JUE referee reads for spatial credibility first

A JUE referee is an urban economist who has seen every spatial confound. Before submission, walk the paper through the objections they reliably raise and confirm each is *already answered in the text*, not deferred to a hoped-for revision.
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