jape-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for a Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) manuscript under the hard 35-page article limit — keeping core exhibits in the main text while pushing extended results into the unlimited online appendix, and ensuring every exhibit is regeneratable for the JAE Data Archive.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jape-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 for JAE (jape-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - Deciding which exhibits belong in the main text vs. the online appendix - Fitting the paper within JAE's 35-page article limit - Making figures/tables submission- and archive-ready ## The page budget drives exhibit choices JAE imposes a **hard 35-page limit on the main article**, but **online appendices / supporting information do not count toward it and have no length restriction**. Split deliberately: - **Main text (≤ 35 pp):** only the exhibits carrying the core applied-econometric lesson — typically a compact descriptive table, the main estimates, and one or two figures that make the finding visible. Show the lesson, not every intermediate specification. - **Online appendix (unlimited):** full robustness grids, alternative specifications, every diagnostic, additional samples, large supplementary tables. A lean main text + rich appendix is the intended pattern, not a weakness. ## Use figures where they beat tables Reach for a figure when a table obscures the point: finite-sample patterns, forecast performance, impulse responses, or diagnostic behavior over a tuning parameter. ## Exhibit triage Classify every e
- When to trigger
- The page budget drives exhibit choices
- Use figures where they beat tables
- Exhibit triage
- Self-contained and reproducible
- Anatomy of a JAE estimates table
- Worked exhibit budget under 35 pages (illustrative)
- Exhibit pushback and the archive answer
- Table-note template
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Output format
- Supplementary resources
What does the jape-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for a Journal of Applied Econometrics (JAE) manuscript under the hard 35-page article limit — keeping core exhibits in the main text while pushing extended results into the unlimited online appendix, and ensuring every exhibit is regeneratable for the JAE Data Archive.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jape-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.