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aeja-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether an applied-micro project belongs at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) rather than AER, AEJ: Economic Policy, or a field journal, and what its central question should be. Sets venue fit and question scope; it does not design the identification (see aeja-identification).
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# Topic Selection & Venue Fit (aeja-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- A project is empirically promising but you are unsure it is "AEJ: Applied-shaped"
- The question reads like a policy evaluation, a field-specialist note, or a top-general-interest swing — and you need to place it
- Several possible framings of the same dataset exist and you must pick the one that lands here
- Reviewers (or a co-author) say "this is fine but why this journal?"
## The AEJ: Applied fit test
AEJ: Applied wants **empirical applied microeconomics** where a **credible causal research design** answers a **substantive economic question** of **broad applied-micro interest** — above a pure field journal but more specialized than AER. Use this decision table to place the project.
| Signal in your project | Likely fit |