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Use when deciding which robustness checks belong in the few in-text words of an American Economic Review: Insights (AER: Insights) short-format manuscript versus the online Supplemental Appendix. Triages checks against the length cap; it does not design the identification (see aeri-identification).

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# Robustness — Triage Against the Cap (aeri-robustness)

## When to trigger

- The robustness section is sprawling and competing with the result for word budget
- You have ten checks and at most one or two can appear in-text
- A referee will ask for a check the short paper has no room to add in full
- Unsure what is load-bearing robustness vs. reassurance that can go online

## The short-format robustness problem

A standard paper answers every threat in-text; AER: Insights **cannot**. With **≤7,000 words (minus 200 per exhibit, ≤5 exhibits)**, robustness must be **triaged**: keep in-text only the **one or two checks that, if they failed, would kill the headline result**, and move everything else to the Supplemental Appendix (which has no length cap but is read only by skeptics and the data editor). The skill is deciding the *minimum credible set* of in-text checks and signposting the rest in a single sentence.

## The triage rule
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