Your regression coefficients have units that
are units of response / units of predictor. Thus
if you don't like them change one unit or the other
or both until the numbers are congenial.
Nick
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Renuka Metcalfe
> I am using a panel data. I am looking at the impact of
> "x" on employment growth, runing an OLS. I ran
> something like
>
> .regress empgrowth2004 x1, x2, x3
>
> Some of my coefficients are very large. For example,
> 1307.
>
>
> I would be grateful, if anyone would let me know, how
> I could scale these coefficients so that they are a
> lot smaller.
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