The CHAT Dataset

Diego A. Comin; Bart Hobijn

doi:10.3386/w15319

The CHAT Dataset

Diego A. Comin & Bart Hobijn

Working Paper 15319

DOI 10.3386/w15319

Issue Date September 2009

This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries since 1800. The data is available for download at: http://www.nber.org/data/chat We discuss the main aim of CHAT, its scope and limitations, as well as several ways in which we have used the data so far and ways to potentially use the data for other research.

We thank our numerous research assistants, who over the years have helped us with this project (most of whom ended up going to law school after helping with this project ). We thank Colin Gardiner and Ankit Singh for excellent research assistance in preparing this note. The collection of this data would not have been possible without the generous support from the NSF (Grants # SES-0517910 and SBE-738101) and the support from the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics in the early stages of this project. The views expressed in this paper solely reflect those of the authors' and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, or the Federal Reserve System as a whole.
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