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jde-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a research question fits the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) — a first-order question about low- and middle-income economies and the process of economic development. Tests topic fit before identification or drafting begins.
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# Topic Selection (jde-topic-selection)
## When to trigger
- You have data or a setting but are unsure it is a *development* question
- The question is interesting but the developing-country stakes are unclear
- You are weighing whether the work fits JDE versus a general-interest or a regional journal
- You are deciding whether to run the project as a prospective, pre-results-reviewed design
## The JDE fit bar
JDE is the **leading field journal in development economics**, published by Elsevier. It publishes theoretical and empirical research on the **economics of developing countries and the process of economic development** — poverty, growth, institutions, trade and development, health, education, labor, agriculture, credit and finance, and the microeconomics and macroeconomics of low- and middle-income economies. A question fits when:
- The **economic agent or economy is developing** (a household, firm, market, or government in an LMIC), and the mechanism is genuinely about development, not a generic micro result that happens to use developing-country data.