Manuscript Review — Referee Report

Produce a thorough, constructive review of an academic manuscript. Think like a demanding but fair referee at AER, QJE, APSR, or AJPS.

Input: Path to paper (.tex, .pdf, .qmd), or paper title in context.

Steps

1. Locate and Read

Read the full paper end-to-end. For long papers, read in chunks:

• Abstract + Introduction (always first)
• Theory/hypotheses
• Data + identification strategy
• Results + robustness
• Conclusion