TY  - JOUR
AU  - Comin,Diego A.
AU  - Hobijn,Bart
TI  - The CHAT Dataset
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 15319
PY  - 2009
Y2  - September 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15319
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w15319.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Diego A. Comin
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Tel: 617/495-5011
E-Mail: dcomin@hbs.edu

Bart Hobijn
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Economic Research Department, Mailstop 1130
101 Market Street, 11th floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel: 415 974 2314
Fax: 415 974 2168
E-Mail: bart.hobijn@sf.frb.org
AB  - 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.
ER  -