Redesigns tables and figures in Economic Policy manuscripts so policy readers can extract main takeaways without decoding regression output. Translates coefficients into policy-meaningful units, annotates baselines, and splits exhibits between main text and appendix.
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- A minister or central-bank reader could not extract the policy takeaway from your main exhibit
EP is read by economists and policymakers, and presented to two discussants. The main-text exhibits must be legible to the policy reader; the regression machinery belongs in the appendix. The governing principle: lead with figures that show the policy effect, demote dense tables to the appendix. A good EP figure answers the policy question by itself — an event-study plot of the reform's effect over time, a map of treated regions, a bar of the welfare/cost decomposition — with a caption a non-specialist can read standalone.
Note on house style: EP applies its template and copyediting at the commissioning/production stage, and authors receive style guidance on commissioning (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). All figures should carry alternative text (alt text) for accessibility (检索于 2026-06;以官网为准). Confirm exact figure-format and table-style rules in the live author guidelines.
| Exhibit | Where it belongs |
|---|---|
| Headline policy effect (event study, treatment effect over time) | main-text figure |
| Magnitude in policy-meaningful units (€, jobs, % of GDP) | main-text figure/table |
| Welfare / fiscal-cost decomposition | main-text figure |
| Full regression table with all controls and specifications | appendix |
| Robustness grid across specifications | compact summary in main text; full grid in appendix |
| Balance / first-stage / density diagnostics | appendix |
【Journal】Economic Policy (EP)
【Skill】ecopol-tables-figures
【Headline figure】does it convey the policy effect standalone? Y/N
【Units】effect expressed in € / jobs / %GDP / per-capita?
【Baseline + policy object】annotated on figure? Y/N
【Precision】CI shown (not asterisk-driven)? Y/N
【Main-text vs appendix】what moved to appendix
【Accessibility】alt text / format per guidelines (待核实 exact spec)
【Next skill】ecopol-writing-style
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