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Use when exhibits — especially maps — for a Journal of Economic Geography (JEG) manuscript are dense, decorative, or do not answer the spatial question. Makes maps and tables argue; it does not invent results.

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# Tables and Figures (jegeo-tables-figures)

## When to trigger

- The paper has maps that are pretty but make no argument (a choropleth that just shows where the data are)
- A key spatial pattern lives in a table of coefficients when a map or gradient plot would carry it
- Regression tables are dense, use significance asterisks, or hide the spatial-inference choices (W, cutoff, scale)
- A geographer reviewer cannot see the geography and an economist reviewer cannot see the magnitudes

## Maps must argue, not decorate

JEG is one of the few economics outlets where **the map is often the central exhibit**, and referees from the geography side judge cartographic craft. A map earns its place only if it makes a point a table cannot:

- **Show the variation the paper exploits**, not just where observations sit — e.g., the spatial discontinuity at a border, the treated vs. control regions, the gradient that motivates the mechanism.
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