jegeo-robustness
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.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-robustness --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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. | Threat | What a referee fears | The check that answers it | |--------|----------------------|---------------------------| | **Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)** | the result is an artifact of how space was carved into units | re-estimate at ≥2 spatial scales / aggregations; show the effect survives | | **Spatial weight matrix sensitivity** | W was reverse-eng
- When to trigger
- The spatial robustness threats unique to JEG
- Sequencing the robustness section
- The two robustness checks JEG referees ask for most
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the robustness fix
- A note on what NOT to over-do
- Output format
What does the jegeo-robustness skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jegeo-robustness --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.