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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.
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# 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.