| name | referee-checklist |
| description | Use for pre-submission economics paper review, referee-style reports, identification checks, and response-to-referee planning on author-owned, public, or approved material. |
Referee Checklist
Review substance before style and report blockers first.
Checklist
- Confirm the material is author-owned, public, or approved for AI review.
- Summarize the paper or section in 5-7 sentences using only the provided text.
- Check whether research question, contribution, data, sample, and estimand are
explicit.
- Check identification: treatment, comparison group, timing, identifying
assumption, threats, pre-trends, spillovers, and external validity.
- Check econometrics: clustering, functional form, weighting, multiple testing,
missing data, and robustness logic.
- Check tables and figures against text claims.
- Flag citations or literature claims that need human verification.
- Separate major issues, minor issues, and optional polish.
Output
# Referee-Style Review
## Major Issues
## Minor Issues
## Robustness Or Clarification Requests
## Citation Or Evidence Checks
## Optional Prose Edits
Constraints
- Do not invent missing results or citations.
- Do not upgrade descriptive or correlational text to causal language.
- Do not edit confidential material without explicit permission.
