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jpe-tables-figures

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Use when finalizing the main exhibits (tables and figures) of a Journal of Political Economy (JPE) manuscript so each one carries economic content and is self-contained. Sets exhibit design and notes standards; it does not decide which results to report (see jpe-robustness).

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# Tables & Figures (jpe-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- Tables are overloaded with columns; the reader cannot find the economic point
- Figures are decorative rather than carrying the argument
- Notes are thin — a reader cannot reconstruct units, sample, or specification from the exhibit alone
- You are deciding what belongs in the main text vs. the online appendix

## The JPE exhibit philosophy

A JPE table or figure should be **self-contained and economically legible**: a referee skimming exhibits should grasp the result, the magnitude, and what it means. As a **University of Chicago Press** journal, JPE typesets accepted exhibits to Chicago Press production standards — no chartjunk, no gratuitous color, units and economic magnitudes front and center. Every exhibit must also be regenerated by the master script in the **JPE Dataverse** replication deposit, so the numbers in the paper and the numbers the code produces must match exactly when the **JPE Data Editor** verifies them at conditional accept (see `jpe-replication-package`). The headline result usually deserves a *figure* (an event-study plot, a fit-of-model plot, a counterfactual) because magnitudes and dynamics read faster than a coefficient.

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