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Use when checking whether a research question fits the Journal of Human Resources (JHR) — empirical microeconomics with a policy-relevant, causal emphasis — and to filter out off-scope "HR management" framings before paying the nonrefundable fee. A fit gate, not an idea generator.

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# Topic Selection & Scope Fit (jhr-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You are choosing a target journal and JHR is a candidate
- The paper's title or framing uses "human resources / HR" language
- You want to confirm a policy-relevant micro question is in scope before submitting
- Deciding whether a descriptive paper is JHR-worthy

## The single most important gate: scope

JHR's **name is misleading.** It is a **leading empirical-microeconomics journal**, founded 1965 at the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, and it **does NOT consider management or personnel ("HR management") research.** The nonrefundable **$175 fee is not refunded** for out-of-scope papers — so this check has real money attached. If your paper is about firm HR practices, recruitment systems, or organizational behavior, JHR is the wrong venue.

## What JHR actually wants
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