## Economics Overlay

### Activation
Apply this overlay when `manuscript-architect` is used for an economics subject package across empirical, theory, methods, or reproducibility-oriented manuscripts.

### Required Context
- Require the paper type, target economics venue family, research question, central claim, estimand or theoretical object, data source, and method family.
- Require the identification strategy before drafting the introduction, not only in the methods appendix.
- Require the current evidence status for robustness, inference, and replication materials.

### Subject-Specific Procedure
1. Architect the introduction around the economics contribution, the estimand or theoretical object, and the source of credibility.
2. Connect each central empirical claim to identifying variation, comparison group, standard errors, and robustness evidence.
3. For empirical papers, separate descriptive facts, identification claims, mechanism claims, and policy implications across the introduction, results, and discussion.
4. For theory papers, separate assumptions, propositions, comparative statics, welfare or equilibrium logic, and empirically testable implications.
5. Place data/code availability, sample construction, and replication package expectations in the manuscript plan for AEA-style review norms.

### Reviewer-Risk Checks
- Check whether the paper sells a causal contribution before the identification design is credible.
- Check whether the introduction hides the estimand, comparison group, or robustness evidence until late sections.
- Check whether theory claims lack assumptions or empirical implications, or empirical claims lack design-based credibility.

### Output Requirements
- The manuscript architecture must include a claim-to-evidence map with `Claim`, `Estimand`, `Identification`, `Diagnostics`, and `Manuscript Section`.
- The introduction plan must name the economics literature conversation and the identification or theory contribution.
- Missing robustness, inference, or replication evidence must appear as revision tasks, not as implied support.

### Blocked Conditions
- Block final manuscript architecture when central causal claims cannot be tied to identifying variation and diagnostics.
- Block policy claims that exceed the estimand, sample, or design.
- Do not let data/code availability remain an afterthought for empirical economics manuscripts.
