jde-tables-figures
Use when designing the main exhibits for a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) manuscript — figure-forward presentation of treatment effects, heterogeneity, and event studies for development settings, with self-contained notes. Shapes exhibits; it does not run the estimation.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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 (jde-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The main result is a nine-column table no reader can parse - A treatment effect or pre-trend would land harder as a figure - Heterogeneity across subgroups is buried in interaction rows - Notes under exhibits are too thin to stand alone for a referee ## The JDE exhibit bar Development economics has moved toward **figure-forward** presentation, and JDE exhibits should make the headline result legible at a glance to a development economist skimming the paper. Principles: - **Lead with a figure where the design allows it.** Event-study plots (DID), discontinuity plots (RDD), and treatment-effect-by-subgroup plots communicate a field result faster than a coefficient table. RCT main effects often read best as a clean coefficient plot with confidence intervals. - **One main table, deep appendix.** Keep the main coefficient table tight (headline outcomes, the preferred specification, clustered SEs noted); push alternative specifications, balance, attrition, and robustness to the extensive online appendix. - **Self-contained notes.** Each exhibit must state the sample, unit of observation, the level at which standard errors are c
- When to trigger
- The JDE exhibit bar
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Exhibit-design decision grid (by JDE design type)
- Worked micro-example (illustrative numbers)
- Referee pushback the right exhibit pre-empts
- Anti-patterns
- Output format
What does the jde-tables-figures skill do?
Use when designing the main exhibits for a Journal of Development Economics (JDE) manuscript — figure-forward presentation of treatment effects, heterogeneity, and event studies for development settings, with self-contained notes. Shapes exhibits; it does not run the estimation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jde-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.