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).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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.
# 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. | Spatial threat to the result | The check that answers it | |------------------------------|---------------------------| | Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) | re-estimate at multiple sp
- When to trigger
- The JUE robustness bar
- Robustness craft
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee pushback mapped to the robustness fix
- Robustness for a structural / QSM paper
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Spatial placebo and falsification
- Output format
What does the jue-robustness skill do?
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).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jue-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 984 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.