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Formats QJE manuscript exhibits — figures, tables, and self-contained notes — following the journal's figure-forward, single-PDF, author-date style.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/qje-skills:qje-tables-figuresThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- The main result is a dense table with too many columns
QJE has moved firmly toward figure-forward presentation — the Opportunity Insights / Chetty-style QJE paper makes its central result legible in one well-designed graph (e.g., the binned mobility maps and exposure-effect plots of the QJE 2014/2018 neighborhoods papers). Identification designs are inherently visual: event-study plots, RDD discontinuity plots, and binned scatters communicate credibility better than a coefficient buried in a regression column. Tables remain essential for estimates and robustness, but the headline should often be a figure a reader grasps in five seconds. Practical QJE constraints: at initial submission everything is one PDF with figures embedded (no separate figure files), exhibits are numbered and called out in order, and in-text references are author-date (Chicago).
| Design | Headline figure |
|---|---|
| DID / event std | Event-study plot: leads ≈ 0, clean post-treatment dynamics |
| RDD | Discontinuity plot: binned means + local polynomial fit |
| IV | First-stage and reduced-form scatter / binscatter |
| RCT | Treatment-vs-control outcome distributions or effect-by-arm |
| Descriptive | The new fact, plotted with the data doing the talking |
【Headline exhibit】figure type chosen + why
【Main table】column count + what moved to appendix
【Notes audit】sample / units / FE / clustering / significance present? [Y/N each]
【Magnitude legibility】units stated? [Y/N]
【Figures plotted】[event study / RDD / first stage / ...]
【Next step】qje-writing-style
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