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I Just Ran Four Million Regressions

Working Paper 6252
DOI 10.3386/w6252
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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.


  • Xavier X. Sala-i-Martin, "I Just Ran Four Million Regressions," NBER Working Paper 6252 (1997), https://doi.org/10.3386/w6252.

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

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