This is the router. It tells you **which aeja-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at the *American Economic Journal: Applied Economics* (AEJ: Applied) — the **American Economic Association's** quarterly journal for **empirical applied microeconomics with credible causal identification**: labor, development, health, education, public, urban, environmental, and household finance. AEJ: Applied is **empirical-first**: a clean research design carrying a substantive economic question, with theory used to *interpret and structure* rather than to lead.
