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Use when finalizing the main exhibits (tables and figures) of a The Economic Journal (EJ) manuscript so each one carries economic content, reads to a general audience, and is self-contained. Sets exhibit design and notes standards; it does not decide which results to report (see ecj-robustness).

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# Tables & Figures (ecj-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, or working within the short-paper exhibit budget

## The EJ exhibit philosophy

An EJ table or figure should be **self-contained and legible to a generalist**: a referee or non-specialist skimming exhibits should grasp the result, the magnitude, and what it means without hunting through the text. EJ's broad-interest, exposition-first identity makes this acute — an exhibit only your subfield can parse undersells the paper. Every exhibit must also be regenerated by the master script in the **Zenodo** replication deposit, so the numbers in the paper and the numbers the code produces must match exactly when the **EJ Data Editor** verifies them before final acceptance (see `ecj-replication-package`). The headline result usually deserves a *figure* (an event-study plot, a model-fit plot, a counterfactual) because magnitudes and dynamics read faster than a coefficient.

For a **short paper** (AER:Insights-style), the exhibit budget is tight (5 exhibits; verified 2026-06-20): every exhibit must earn its place; demote the rest to the online appendix.
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