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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...
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United Nations classification. This dataset updates the Statistics Canada World Trade Database as described in Feenstra ….nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data …, Lipsey, and Bowen (1997), which was available for years 1970-1992. In that database, Statistics Canada had revised the United …
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countries. To further understand international capital flow cycles, I construct a new database on capital flows spanning the …
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Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD). The ORBIS database provides data on firms' financial and productive activities … structure for over 130 million companies across the world. Researchers need to overcome several challenges before making the … database usable for research. First, the database is not designed for large downloads that is essential for an econometric …
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Measures in Entrepreneurship Technology and Science) database spanning all sciences, technologies, and high-tech industries …; its parent COMETSandSTARS database which adds more data at organization and individual scientist …
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The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …
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December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee … impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits …, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized …
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Although typically overlooked, many purchase datasets exhibit a high incidence of products with zero sales. We propose a new estimator for the Random-Coefficients Logit demand system for purchase datasets with zero-valued market shares. The identification of the demand parameters is based on a...
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States, which have the primary legal role in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications, have created Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) to try to reduce inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and related harm. Research assessing whether these interventions...
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Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
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