I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

Xavier X. Sala-i-Martin

NBER Working Paper No. 6252
Issued in November 1997
NBER Program(s):   EFG

In this paper I try to move away from the Extreme Bounds method of identifying" Instead of analyzing the" extreme bounds of the estimates of the coefficient of a particular variable distribution. My claim in this paper is that, if we do this, the picture emerging from the" empirical growth literature is not the pessimistic Robust" that we get with the" extreme bound analysis. Instead, we find that a substantial number of variables can be found" to be strongly related to growth.

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Published: American Economic Review, Vol. 87, no. 2 (May 1997): 178-183.

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