jle-tables-figures
Use when building or revising the exhibits of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript so the effect of the legal rule is legible in one table or figure and respects University of Chicago Press presentation norms. Formats exhibits; it does not establish the result (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or write the surrounding prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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 (jle-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - The main effect of the legal rule is settled and must be made readable at a glance - Tables are dense, over-decimaled, or bury the headline coefficient under controls - An event-study around a law change, an RD at a regulatory cutoff, or a judge-leniency first stage needs to carry the identification visually - You are preparing exhibits for submission and want them in University of Chicago Press house style ## The JLE exhibit bar At JLE the **effect of the legal rule should be findable in seconds**, and every exhibit should earn its place. The signature visual is **the picture of the legal identification** — the event-study around the statute's effective date, the RD scatter at the regulatory threshold, the price path in treated vs. control markets after an enforcement action. Lead with it: at this journal, the figure that shows the rule "switching on" is half the persuasion. Report standard errors and the clustering level; describe the legal variation precisely in notes so an economist who does not know the statute can still read the table. | Exhibit | What it must show | Common failure | |---------|-------------------|-
- When to trigger
- The JLE exhibit bar
- Exhibit craft
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- The institutional/descriptive exhibit JLE expects
- Referee pushback mapped to the exhibit fix
- Precision and reporting conventions
- Output format
What does the jle-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building or revising the exhibits of a The Journal of Law and Economics (JLE) manuscript so the effect of the legal rule is legible in one table or figure and respects University of Chicago Press presentation norms. Formats exhibits; it does not establish the result (jle-identification / jle-robustness) or write the surrounding prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jle-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.