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Use when results for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript may be sensitive to spatial scale, the weight matrix, spatial autocorrelation, sample, or specification. Organizes robustness by spatial threat; it does not invent results.

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# Robustness Strategy (jegeo-robustness)

## When to trigger

- The headline result might flip at a different spatial scale (region vs. commuting zone vs. grid cell)
- A spatial-econometric model's results depend on the chosen spatial weight matrix W
- Standard errors ignore spatial correlation across units, so inference is overstated
- Reviewers may suspect the effect is driven by a few large regions, a boundary artifact, or one definition of the spatial unit
- You have a long appendix of checks with no story about which threat each one answers

## The spatial robustness threats unique to JEG

Most JEG robustness work is not generic — it answers threats that arise *because the data are spatial*. Organize by threat, not by a mechanical list, and lead with the spatial ones because that is where both communities probe hardest.
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