jpam-tables-figures
Use when building tables and figures for a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — self-contained, decision-legible exhibits that show the policy effect, its uncertainty, the design's validity, and cost-benefit / distributional results. Designs exhibits; it does not run the estimation.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-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 (jpam-tables-figures) JPAM exhibits serve a mixed audience — economists, political scientists, public-management scholars, and practitioners — so they must be **self-contained and decision-legible**: a policymaker should grasp the main result, its uncertainty, and who it affects without reading the methods section. Lead with the exhibit that shows the policy effect and its credibility, not a wall of coefficients. ## When to trigger - Designing the main results table/figure and the design-validity exhibits - A reviewer found tables unreadable, or the key result hard to locate - Presenting cost-benefit or distributional results visually - Preparing exhibits for the (double-blind) submission ## What the exhibit set should contain 1. **The headline effect, clearly.** A main results table or a coefficient/effect figure in policy- relevant units, with confidence intervals — not just significance stars. 2. **Design-validity exhibits.** The evidence that the identification holds: an **event-study / pre-trends** plot for DiD, an **RD plot** with binned means and the fitted discontinuity, a balance table for an RCT, a synthetic-control fit plot. These often persuade review
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- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
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What does the jpam-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building tables and figures for a Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM) manuscript — self-contained, decision-legible exhibits that show the policy effect, its uncertainty, the design's validity, and cost-benefit / distributional results. Designs exhibits; it does not run the estimation.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill jpam-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.