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jue-robustness
Use when a Journal of Urban Economics (JUE) manuscript's headline spatial estimate must be shown to survive specification, spatial-scale, sorting, spillover, and inference choices before submission or in an R&R. Builds the spatially-aware robustness suite a JUE referee expects; it does not establish the identification (jue-identification) or format the maps (jue-tables-figures).
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# Spatial Robustness Suite (jue-robustness)
## When to trigger
- The main spatial estimate is in hand and must be shown not to be an artifact of one specification
- A referee asks "is this robust to the spatial scale / the buffer / the geography you chose?"
- The result depends on a bandwidth, a ring radius, a fixed-effects geography, or a clustering choice
- You need to rule out that **spatial sorting** or **MAUP** (modifiable areal unit problem) drives the result
- The estimate could move under a spatial-spillover or boundary-definition change
## The JUE robustness bar
JUE referees probe whether the spatial estimate is **stable across the spatial choices the researcher made** — the scale of the units, the boundaries, the buffer/ring radii, the fixed-effects geography — and whether inference accounts for spatial dependence. Robustness here is not a wall of regressions; it is a **targeted set of checks, each tied to a spatial threat**, reported so the reader sees the point estimate barely moves.
