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jole-review-process
GitHub说明JOLE期刊的单盲审稿流程、100/175美元不可退投稿费机制及Editorial Manager提交方式。解析劳动力经济学家对选题原创性、因果识别策略及数据复现性的期望，并提供单盲稿件去匿名化检查清单。
Trigger Scenarios
确认JOLE是否为双盲审稿
预算投稿费用及理解缴费与决定发布的关系
了解审稿人对劳动力经济学论文的具体期望
管理R&R或拒稿的预期
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jole-review-process -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "jole-review-process",
"description": "Use to understand how the Journal of Labor Economics (JOLE) actually reviews a paper — single-blind refereeing, the non-refundable submission fee, Editorial Manager, the SOLE society tie, and what labor referees expect. Explains the process; it does not draft the manuscript."
}
Review Process (jole-review-process)
When to trigger
- You are unsure whether JOLE is double-blind (it is not) and how that changes the submission
- You need to budget for the submission fee and understand when the decision is released
- You want to know what labor-economics referees and editors look for before you submit
- You are calibrating expectations for an R&R versus a reject
How JOLE review works
- Single-blind (single-anonymized). Referees are anonymous, but they know the authors' identities. Because of this the manuscript is not anonymized: it begins with a title page naming all co-authors, their institutions, and emails, and references are not blinded. Do not strip identifying material — that is correct for double-blind journals but wrong here.
- Submission via Editorial Manager (
editorialmanager.com/jole), with a cover letter. JOLE is the official journal of the Society of Labor Economists (SOLE) and is published by the University of Chicago Press. - Non-refundable submission fee (since July 1, 2018): $100 for SOLE members, $175 for non-members. It is charged even if the paper is desk-rejected, and the decision is not released until the fee is paid — so the fee gates your result, not just your submission. SOLE membership is the cheaper path.
- Publication-ethics regime: UChicago Press / COPE guidelines, with explicit attention to confidential data and research on vulnerable / human subjects. Flag proprietary data or human-subjects concerns up front.
- Review clock: do not promise the author a specific turnaround time; this pack has no current official review-clock source encoded.
- Editor: the current Editor-in-Chief is Peter Kuhn, UC Santa Barbara. Confirm the live board page before naming any editor or conflict in a cover letter.
What labor referees expect
JOLE referees are labor economists judging a general-interest labor audience. They reward:
- A first-order labor question (wages/earnings, employment, human capital, labor supply/demand, family, discrimination, unions, migration, institutions/policy) that matters beyond one niche.
- Credible identification matched to labor data (DID / event study with modern estimators, IV including shift-share, RDD at eligibility thresholds, RCTs, AKM firm–worker designs).
- Disciplined data work — appropriate sample construction from CPS/ACS/registers, correct standard errors, robustness that a labor referee would otherwise demand.
- A replicable empirical core — JOLE publishes empirical/simulation/experimental papers only if data are documented and available, with deposit to the JOLE Dataverse after acceptance (see jole-replication-and-data-policy).
- Word economy — the ~20,000-word soft cap (full-page exhibit = 500 words) signals that referees value a tightly argued paper, not a sprawling one.
Checklist
- Manuscript is non-anonymized (single-blind): title page names all authors
- Submission fee budgeted; you know the decision is withheld until it is paid
- SOLE membership considered (lower fee)
- Proprietary-data / human-subjects issues flagged to the editor at submission
- Identification and robustness pre-empt the obvious labor-referee objections
- Live board checked before naming an editor or conflict
Anti-patterns
- Treating JOLE as double-blind and stripping author identity from the manuscript
- Forgetting the fee blocks the decision, then being surprised no result arrives
- Promising a specific review turnaround
- Naming an editor or conflict without checking the live board page
- Submitting an empirical paper with no plan to make the data available
Output format
【Review model】single-blind, manuscript NOT anonymized [confirmed Y/N]
【Fee】$100 SOLE / $175 non-member, non-refundable, gates the decision [budgeted Y/N]
【Society】SOLE membership considered for lower fee [Y/N]
【Ethics】proprietary data / human subjects flagged [Y/N/NA]
【Referee readiness】labor question + identification + replication ready [Y/N each]
【Next step】jole-submission preflight
Supplementary resources
../../resources/official-source-map.md— official JOLE URLs, source evidence, and live-check items../../resources/external_tools.md— labor data sources and packages
Version History
- 1839142 Current 2026-07-05 13:44
