wber-tables-figures
Use when building the exhibits for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript so they read cleanly for a mixed economist + policymaker audience, fit the 40-page cap, and carry the policy magnitude. Designs and audits tables/figures; it does not run the analysis or write the prose.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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 (wber-tables-figures) ## When to trigger - Tables are dense regression dumps a policymaker cannot read - Significance is shown with asterisks instead of standard errors / confidence intervals - Effect sizes are reported only in coefficient units, not policy-meaningful magnitudes - Exhibits are pushing the paper over the 40-page total cap - An event-study or treatment effect is buried in a table when a figure would carry it ## The WBER exhibit standard WBER exhibits serve **two readers at once**: the applied economist who checks the design and the practitioner who wants the magnitude and its policy meaning. The best WBER tables and figures make the headline effect legible in *policy units* — percentage-point change in enrollment, dollars of consumption, cost per outcome — not just a coefficient. And remember the **40-page total cap includes tables, figures, references, and appendices**: every exhibit competes for scarce space, so each must earn its place. Lead with the design (balance, first stage, pre-trends) and then the effect; do not bury the main result in column 6 of a kitchen-sink table. ## Building exhibits that work - **One question per exhibit.** A tab
- When to trigger
- The WBER exhibit standard
- Building exhibits that work
- Exhibit-by-purpose map
- Referee pushback mapped to the exhibit fix
- Execution bridge (StatsPAI / Stata MCP)
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Worked vignette (illustrative)
- Reading exhibits for two audiences
- Output format
What does the wber-tables-figures skill do?
Use when building the exhibits for a The World Bank Economic Review (WBER) manuscript so they read cleanly for a mixed economist + policymaker audience, fit the 40-page cap, and carry the policy magnitude. Designs and audits tables/figures; it does not run the analysis or write the prose.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill wber-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.