I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

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Xavier Sala-i-Martin

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

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Date Written: November 1997

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

Sala-i-Martin, Francesc Xavier, I Just Ran Four Million Regressions (November 1997). NBER Working Paper No. w6252, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=226010

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