aeja-tables-figures
Use when building or revising the exhibits of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the main causal result is legible in one table or figure and respects AEA house presentation norms. Formats exhibits; it does not establish the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or write the surrounding prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-tables-figures --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.
# Tables & Figures (aeja-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The main result is settled and must be made readable at a glance - Tables are dense, over-decimaled, or bury the headline coefficient - An event-study / RD / first-stage plot needs to carry the identification visually - You are preparing exhibits for submission and want them AEA-house-style compliant ## The AEJ: Applied exhibit bar At AEJ: Applied the **main causal estimate should be findable in seconds** and every exhibit should earn its place. AEA house style permits **significance stars but expects standard errors** in parentheses, clear notes that make each exhibit self-contained, and clean figures over chartjunk. Lead with the design's signature visual — the event-study plot, the RD scatter, or the balance table — because at this journal the *picture of the identification* is half the persuasion. | Exhibit | What it must show | Common failure | |---------|-------------------|----------------| | Main results table | headline coefficient, SE in parentheses, N, controls indicated, dependent-var mean | too many columns; no SEs; over-precision | | Balance table (RCT) | baseline means by arm, differences, joint test | mis
- When to trigger
- The AEJ: Applied exhibit bar
- Exhibit craft
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Referee pushback mapped to the exhibit fix
- Output format
What does the aeja-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building or revising the exhibits of an American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (AEJ: Applied) manuscript so the main causal result is legible in one table or figure and respects AEA house presentation norms. Formats exhibits; it does not establish the result (aeja-identification / aeja-robustness) or write the surrounding prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill aeja-tables-figures --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.