ier-tables-figures
Use when exhibits in an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript are dense, do not carry the argument, or do not present structural/theory results well. Makes each exhibit answer one question; it does not generate the data.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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 and Figures (ier-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - A reader cannot tell from a table alone what claim it supports - A structural paper's parameter table lists estimates but not what identifies them or their precision - A theory paper has no figure making the mechanism or comparative static visible - Regression tables are wall-to-wall coefficients with significance stars and no economic magnitudes - Exhibits must fit the ≤50-page IER ceiling and are crowding out the argument ## What IER exhibits must do IER exhibits serve a **rigor-leaning, broad audience**, so each one must answer a single question and make the *economics* — not just the statistics — legible. For a theory/structural-tilted journal, the most valuable exhibits are often the ones that make a mechanism or a comparative static visible, and the parameter table that shows the model is disciplined by data. Sort your exhibits by their job: | Exhibit type | Its one job | The IER craft | |--------------|-------------|----------------| | Structural parameter table | Show estimates ARE pinned, not just reported | Pair each parameter with its identifying moment and a standard error / sensitivity entry | | Model-fit t
- When to trigger
- What IER exhibits must do
- House-style discipline
- The structural paper's signature exhibit
- Worked example (illustrative)
- Why no asterisks at a rigor journal
- Figures earn their place by showing what a table cannot
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Referee pushback mapped to the exhibit fix
- Output format
What does the ier-tables-figures skill do?
Use when exhibits in an International Economic Review (IER) manuscript are dense, do not carry the argument, or do not present structural/theory results well. Makes each exhibit answer one question; it does not generate the data.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill ier-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.