latex-empirical-tables

# LaTeX Empirical Tables Empirical economics and finance papers export regression and estimation output as estout/esttab "body fragments" — rows of `\multicolumn` headers, coefficients with `\sym` stars, and parenthesised p-values or SEs, with no `\toprule`/`\bottomrule` — pulled into the manuscript through a wrapper macro (`\estauto`/`\estwide`/`\estautoLT`). Done well this reads like a top-journal table. Done naively it looks broken: wide tables spill past the right margin, the note legend is jammed inside the tabular as a boxed cell, columns sit at uneven widths, and `\input`-ed fragments throw "Misplaced \omit". This skill sets a results `.tex` up from scratch, converts ugly estout tables to the gold-standard pattern, and diagnoses the `\omit` error. The reasoning behind each choice is given so you can adapt rather than copy blindly. ## Routing | You want to... | Go to | |----------------|-------| | Set up `results.tex`/`main.tex` and its preamble from scratch | Section A | | Fix or reformat existing estout tables (overflow, cramped notes, stars, alignment) | Section B | | Diagnose a "Misplaced `\omit`" error from an `\input`-ed fragment | Section C | | Merge several self-compiling block `results.tex` files into one master document | Section D | | Fix skipped table numbers (Table 1, Table 3, ...) when `\captionof` + `longtable` are combined | Section D | --- # Section A — Build a results document from scratch When producing regression or estimation tables, follow th...