brycewang-stanford JEEA Workflow Router (jeea-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It tells you which jeea- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) — the general-interest journal of the European Economic Association (EEA), published by Oxford University Press (OUP). JEEA publishes high-quality economics across all fields — micro and macro theory, applied econometrics, applied micro, finance, development, public — and judges every paper at a general-interest theory-and-empirics bar, not a field-specialist one. A JEEA paper can be a clean empirical design or a disciplined theory/structural contribution; both must matter to a broad economics readership.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as JEEA. Operational tells that you are at JEEA and not a sibling (The Economic Journal, the European Economic Review) or a top-5: EEA membership is required for the submitting author to submit and resubmit; there is a submission fee (€100, effective Feb 1, 2026; waived if the submitting author and all coauthors are based in low- and middle-income countries); review is single-blind, managed by a co-editor with a fast-decision target (≈8 weeks where possible); and the JEEA Data Editor runs a mandatory replication check before formal acceptance under the DCAS standard (endorsed since Feb 1, 2024), with replication packages posted to the JEEA Zenodo community. Source-map process facts were refreshed on 2026-06-20; live-check volatile specifics on the official EEA / OUP pages before a real upload.
When to trigger
- The user asks "what should I do next?"
- A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
- Work is ping-ponging between identification/theory, framing, writing, and the response letter
- A JEEA decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode
Routing table
| Current symptom | Next skill |
|---|---|
| Question feels narrow / field-specialist, not clearly general-interest | jeea-topic-selection |
| Contribution vs. the frontier is fuzzy or undersold | jeea-literature-positioning |
| Empirical causal design or theory/structural identification is shaky | jeea-identification |
| A theory model needs sharper assumptions, results, or discipline | jeea-theory-model |
| Results may not survive specification / sample / inference perturbations | jeea-robustness |
| Exhibits are dense; significance asterisks still present | jeea-tables-figures |
| Prose buries the idea; abstract/intro do not land | jeea-writing-style |
| Data/code deposit, README, or JEEA Data Editor prep | jeea-replication-package |
| Want to anticipate referee objections / desk-reject odds / timeline | jeea-referee-strategy |
| Ready to submit via the EEA member-area flow; need a preflight | jeea-submission |
| Received an R&R; need a response-letter strategy | jeea-rebuttal |
Default order
jeea-topic-selection— lock the general-interest question and confirm JEEA fitjeea-literature-positioning— stake the contribution vs. the frontierjeea-identification— credible empirical design or theory/structural identificationjeea-theory-model— make any model disciplined and its results legiblejeea-robustness— show the headline result is not fragilejeea-tables-figures— exhibits without significance asterisksjeea-writing-style— make the idea land (abstract + intro last)jeea-replication-package— assemble the DCAS package for the JEEA Data Editorjeea-referee-strategy— pre-empt objections; calibrate expectationsjeea-submission— EEA member-area submission preflightjeea-rebuttal— after the R&R
jeea-writing-styleis a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification/theory/robustness settle.
Anti-patterns
- Skipping
jeea-replication-packageuntil acceptance — the JEEA Data Editor checks before formal acceptance, and empirical papers cannot be accepted until replication is verified - Letting
jeea-tables-figurespolish exhibits while estimation or the model is still moving - Treating JEEA like a field journal (selling depth in one subfield) instead of a general-interest outlet (selling a lesson that travels)
Routing by paper archetype
JEEA spans theory and empirics, and the bottleneck differs by archetype. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.
| Archetype | Likely first bottleneck | Enter at |
|---|---|---|
| applied micro / development causal design | staggered-DID or weak-IV credibility | jeea-identification |
| micro / macro theory | assumptions, generality, and a sharp result | jeea-theory-model → jeea-identification (Branch C) |
| structural / quantitative | parameter identification + counterfactual validity | jeea-identification (Branch A) → jeea-robustness |
| finance / asset pricing | identification + factor-zoo / inference discipline | jeea-identification → jeea-robustness |
Worked routing example (illustrative)
A user says: "My theory paper has a clean model, but a referee says the main proposition needs a more general environment and the empirical illustration uses naive TWFE." That is two distinct JEEA pushbacks — the model is not as general as the claim (owned by jeea-theory-model) and the empirical design is biased under staggered timing (owned by jeea-identification Branch B). Route to jeea-theory-model first to generalize the proposition, then to jeea-identification to re-estimate with a heterogeneity-robust estimator; only once both settle (say the headline elasticity stabilizes at 0.18, s.e. 0.04, illustrative) do you return to jeea-tables-figures and jeea-rebuttal.
Minimal decision snippet
if decision_letter_arrived: -> jeea-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit: -> jeea-submission
elif exhibits_or_significance: -> jeea-tables-figures
elif results_look_fragile: -> jeea-robustness
elif model_not_disciplined: -> jeea-theory-model
elif identification_shaky: -> jeea-identification
elif claim_or_positioning_fuzzy: -> jeea-literature-positioning
else: -> jeea-topic-selection