aer-workflow

# AER Workflow ## Overview This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill. It tells you which one to use next, and in what order. Default assumption: unless the user names a different venue, the manuscript targets **AER**, **AER: Insights**, or an **AEJ** journal — not a finance journal, not a generic economics field journal, and not a working-paper repository. ## When to Use - The user asks "what should I work on next?" - The user dumps a draft and you must decide where the bottleneck is - The user asks for a full paper to be drafted end-to-end and you need the gate sequence - The user is rotating between writing, empirics, and revision and loses track of which stage they are in - A new reviewer report has arrived and the work mode must switch from drafting to rebuttal ## Routing Map Use: - `aer-topic-selection` when the project is new, when the user is undecided between AER / Insights / an AEJ, or when the contribution sentence cannot be written in one line - `aer-literature` when the closest papers must be mapped (novelty scan, antecedents paragraph) or when any citation needs verifying — for AI-drafted manuscripts, every citation - `aer-identification` when the empirical design is the bottleneck — DiD, IV, RDD, SCM, shift-share, event study, RCT analysis - `aer-preregistration` when the study runs a field/lab/survey experiment or collects primary data — write the pre-analysis plan, size the sample from a power/MDE calculation, and register with the ...