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aejpol-writing-style
Use when drafting or revising the prose of an AEJ: Economic Policy manuscript — especially the abstract and introduction — to translate causal estimates into a clear policy takeaway without overclaiming. Shapes the policy-first narrative and house style; it does not design identification or build the welfare model.
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# Writing Style — From Estimate to Policy Takeaway (aejpol-writing-style)
## When to trigger
- The intro buries the policy question under data or method
- The abstract reports a coefficient but no policy lesson
- The paper has a clean estimate but no sentence a policymaker could act on — or it overclaims
- You are polishing for submission and need AEA house tone
> Late-stage polish: do not rewrite the intro until identification (`aejpol-identification`), the welfare bridge (`aejpol-theory-model`), and robustness (`aejpol-robustness`) have settled.
## The AEJ: Policy introduction arc
**Policy question → why credible identification is hard → the design that delivers it → headline causal estimate (with SE/CI) → welfare / cost-benefit / distributional reading → concrete, calibrated policy lesson → brief roadmap.**