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Use when an Economic Policy (EP) manuscript's exhibits are too technical for a policy reader or do not carry the policy message. Redesigns tables and figures for the EP dual audience; it does not invent evidence or citations.

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# Tables and Figures (ecopol-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- A minister or central-bank reader could not extract the policy takeaway from your main exhibit
- Tables are dense regression dumps with every coefficient and three sets of stars
- The key magnitude is buried in a coefficient cell rather than shown as a headline effect
- Figures lack the context (units, baseline, policy threshold) a non-economist needs
- You are choosing which exhibits go in the accessible main text vs. the technical appendix

## EP exhibits serve two readers — design for the harder one

EP is read by economists **and** policymakers, and presented to two discussants. The main-text exhibits must be legible to the policy reader; the regression machinery belongs in the appendix. The governing principle: **lead with figures that show the policy effect, demote dense tables to the appendix.** A good EP figure answers the policy question by itself — an event-study plot of the reform's effect over time, a map of treated regions, a bar of the welfare/cost decomposition — with a caption a non-specialist can read standalone.
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