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jue-writing-style

Use when the prose of a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript buries the spatial mechanism, or the intro/abstract do not land for an urban-economics audience. Sharpens the writing to JUE house voice; it does not run analysis or build exhibits. Late-stage — invoke after identification and the mechanism settle.

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# Writing Style (jue-writing-style)

## When to trigger

- The introduction explains the data and method before it says what is *spatially* new
- The abstract reads like a generic applied-micro paper — space could be deleted and it would still parse
- A reader cannot state the urban mechanism in one sentence after the intro
- The policy or theory implication is asserted at the end rather than threaded through
- The draft uses spatial-econometrics jargon where a plain mechanism sentence would land harder

## The JUE intro arc

JUE referees read the first page to decide whether the paper is a real urban-economics contribution. A JUE introduction should, in order:
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