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aejpol-referee-strategy
Use when anticipating how AEJ: Economic Policy referees and editors will read a manuscript, before submission or before an R&R, to pre-empt the objections that sink policy-evaluation papers. Maps likely pushback to fixes and calibrates expectations; it does not write the response letter (see aejpol-rebuttal) or fix the identification.
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# Referee Strategy — Reading the Manuscript as an AEJ: Policy Referee (aejpol-referee-strategy)
## When to trigger
- Before submitting: you want to find the objections a referee will raise first
- Deciding whether the paper is ready or needs another round of work
- Calibrating expectations about the AEA single-blind process and timeline
- Triaging which weaknesses to fix vs. disclose before submission
## How AEJ: Policy referees read
AEJ: Policy reviews are **single-blind** through the AEA system (referees see the authors; authors do not see referees), refereed by economists who expect both **credible causal evidence** and a **policy-relevant welfare reading**. A referee typically tests four things in order; a paper dies at the first one it fails:
1. **Is it a policy paper of broad interest?** (the `aejpol-topic-selection` test) — a clean estimate with no policy lever or welfare reading invites a "better suited to a field journal / AEJ: Applied" rejection.