. At the same time, there is discussion regarding the robustness of the results of empirical growth studies. In a seminal … paper, Knack and Keefer (1997) assess the effect of trust on growth. This paper analyses the robustness of their results … along several dimensions, acknowledging the complexity of therobustness concept. Our findings show that the robustness of …

The empirical economic growth literature is criticized for its lack of robustness. For different definitions of … robustness, conclusions vary from 'almost every correlation is fragile' to 'a substantial number of explanatory variables are … robustness using quasi-experiments. The analysis pertains to sign, size and significance of the effects, and we relax the quasi …

distribution. The robustness of the concomitant test statistic is assessed, and four different methods are discussed for applying …