TY - JOUR AU - Sala-i-Martin,Xavier X. TI - I Just Ran Four Million Regressions JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 6252 PY - 1997 Y2 - November 1997 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6252 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6252.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Xavier Sala-i-Martin Department of Economics Columbia University 420 West 118th Street, 1005 New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212/854-7055 Fax: 212/854-8059 E-Mail: xs23@columbia.edu AB - 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. ER -