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Positions a Journal of Applied Econometrics manuscript against prior work, focusing on method lineage, applied precedent, and JAE's replicable Data Archive. Frames the contribution as an application/replication advance.
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- Drafting or revising the related-work framing for a JAE paper
JAE values an application on real data that advances or rigorously tests a technique. Position simultaneously on:
Because JAE runs a Replication Article track and a Data Archive of ~1,487 datasets, its culture rewards engagement with prior replicable evidence. If your result revisits a published finding, position relative to that paper's archived data/code and state whether you confirm, qualify, or overturn it.
JAE accepts references "in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript" and allows Free Format first submission. Positioning is about substance and consistency, not house style — pick one style, keep it uniform, and do not stall on a template.
When a prior JAE or applied-econometrics paper has public data/code, do not cite it only as background. Use the archive trail to sharpen the contribution:
This turns literature positioning into an empirical audit trail, which is closer to JAE's culture than a generic related-work survey.
Audit the reference list against these strata; a JAE submission that is thin in any one reads as mis-positioned:
| Stratum | What it contains | Failure mode if absent |
|---|---|---|
| Estimator/inference canon | The original method papers plus the inference refinements you actually use (HAC, wild bootstrap, weak-IV) | Referees assume you applied the method naively |
| Applied precedent | Prior empirical answers to the same question, with their designs and magnitudes | "What does this add?" is unanswerable |
| JAE-corpus neighbors | Related JAE papers, ideally with archived data/code you can point to | Editor cannot see why this venue |
| Replication target (if any) | The specific published paper revisited, with its archive entry | The Replication Article framing collapses |
Suppose a 2015 JAE paper found money-demand elasticity −0.45 using quarterly G7 data through 2012, with data and programs in the archive. A strong positioning paragraph states: which archived series and code paths you reuse unchanged (their sample construction), what you change (extend to 2024; replace HAC with wild bootstrap for the short country panel), and the outcome (elasticity −0.41 on their sample — a confirmation — but −0.22 post-2015, a qualification). That single paragraph does the work of three survey pages — the positioning shape JAE's archive culture exists to enable.
When a referee writes that the paper is X-applied-to-new-data, do not pile on citations. Sharpen the audit trail: name the precedent paper whose conclusion your application tests, show where its archived evidence stops (sample end, inference choice, omitted heterogeneity), and state which of confirm / qualify / overturn your result delivers. At JAE, position against reproducible evidence, not abstract literatures — a gap defined by what an existing archive package cannot show is the most defensible gap claim here.
Method canon: [refs] — adopted unchanged: [...] / adapted: [...]
Applied precedent: [refs] — their finding: [...] — your delta: [...]
JAE neighbors: [refs] — archive entries consulted: [Y/N]
Replication target: [ref or N/A] — verdict: confirm / qualify / overturn
【Method lineage】key technique refs cited? [Y/N]
【Applied lineage】prior empirics engaged? [Y/N]
【Replication tie】revisits a published result? archive acknowledged? [Y/N/NA]
【Strata】all four citation strata covered? [Y/N]
【Gap】application/replication advance in one sentence
【Refs】single consistent style? [Y/N]
../../resources/official-source-map.md — Free Format and Data Archive sourcesnpx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jape-skillsPositions Journal of Econometrics manuscripts precisely against nearest estimators, tests, and asymptotic results to clarify methodological novelty for referees.
Frames the headline contribution of a JAE manuscript as an empirical application on real data with replicable results, calibrating claims to what the design and data support and compressing into a 100-word summary.
Helps authors assess manuscript fit for the Journal of Applied Econometrics, including framing, method/evidence bar, house style, and desk-reject heuristics.