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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.

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# 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 |
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