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journal-of-human-resources
Use when targeting Journal of Human Resources (JHR) or deciding whether an applied-microeconomics manuscript on labor, education, health, or welfare fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Journal of Human Resources (journal-of-human-resources)
## Journal positioning
JHR is a leading field journal for applied microeconomics on human capital and well-being — labor, education, health, and welfare/poverty — with a strong taste for microdata and credible, policy-relevant identification. It rewards careful empirical work that answers a question people care about with a research design the reader can trust. The readership is applied micro and labor/education/health economists, so the paper must combine a substantive question with state-of-the-art causal inference.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the journal/University of Wisconsin Press site and the editorial submission system.
## When to trigger
- The author names JHR as the target venue, or wants a strong applied-micro home for a labor/education/health/welfare paper.
- A microdata empirical paper has credible identification but is narrower than a top-5 general-interest result.
- A policy-evaluation paper needs re-framing so the contribution reads as a credible causal estimate with mechanism and policy relevance.
- The author needs JHR's desk-reject risks and a credible applied-micro alternative list.