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jeea-robustness

Use when the headline result of a Journal of the European Economic Association (JEEA) manuscript needs to be shown stable to specification, sample, inference, and (for theory) assumption perturbations. Organizes robustness around the actual threats a general-interest referee will raise; it does not design the main result.

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# Robustness (jeea-robustness)

## When to trigger

- The main estimate moves when a referee imagines a different specification
- Inference rests on assumptions (homoskedasticity, few clusters) you have not stressed
- A theory result might hinge on one functional form or parameter range
- You have a pile of "robustness tables" but no organizing logic

## The JEEA robustness bar

A general-interest referee does not want a wall of extra columns — they want to know the **headline result survives the threats that matter**. Organize robustness by **threat to the claim**, not by "more specifications." Each robustness exhibit should answer a specific objection a JEEA referee would raise, and the headline magnitude should be **stable in sign and roughly in size** across the credible perturbations. Report everything as **standard errors / confidence sets, never significance asterisks**, and ensure every robustness check is reproducible for the **JEEA Data Editor** check.

## Robustness organized by threat
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