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15Oct2012
  1. Did medical volunteers in Haiti help or hurt?
  2. A must-read paper for those who study rebel groups, combatants, or reintegration
  3. Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied. (h/t @DanDrezner)
  4. SNL on the iPhone5 (h/t @bencasnocha)

 

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Chris Blattman

I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science & International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. I use field work and statistics to study poverty, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. [Read more]

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Recent research

  • 2013: Credit constraints, occupational choice, and the process of development
  • 2013: Economic Shocks and Conflict
  • 2013: Promoting order and property rights under weak rule of law
  • 2013: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
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Policy

  • 2011: Ex-combatant reintegration in Liberia
  • 2011: Impact Evaluation 3.0?
  • 2011: Post conflict civic education and peacebuilding in Liberia
  • 2012: Forecasting local-level conflict in Liberia
  • 2013: The effect of cash grants on poor women
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Advice: Development

  • Books development workers and academics should read
  • Development tourism
  • Getting a job in development
  • How to take advantage of an MA program
  • Research in war zones I
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  • Should you become a field RA on an RCT?
  • So you want to be an impact evaluator?
  • What to bring for field work I
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  • What to bring to the sky
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  • Working in a developing country

Advice: Academic

  • Applying to PhDs
  • Courses: 10 things I tell undergrads
  • Courses: How much economics should you study?
  • How to ask for a recommendation letter
  • How to discuss a paper
  • How to email your professors and employers
  • How to get a PhD and save the world
  • MA or PhD?
  • Moving from RA to co-author
  • On quantitative field research
  • PhD students: Choosing a topic
  • PhD students: Don't lose hope
  • PhD students: Econ PhDs & the politics market
  • PhD students: Job market advice
  • PhD students: Job market advice II
  • PhDs: Picking a dissertation (and why it should not be a field experiment)
  • Writing PhD grant applications
  • Writing: How to write an essay
  • Writing: How to write like a Mad Man

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  • Mordatar on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Aphrophile, While I do agree that the...
  • Chris Blattman on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: There’s a new paper that...
  • Peter Richens on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Sorry, I had not understood what...
  • Afrophile on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: @Mordatar “But this works, we...
  • Michael Woolcock on Yes, there is a hit sci fi/fantasy book series about development economics and politics: If readers are interested in...
  • Chris Blattman on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Peter, you make a good point. We...
  • Peter Richens on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: The percentage impacts look very...
  • kristie on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Excellent! Thank you so much for...
  • Raf Manji on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Hi Chris, Nice paper. I didn’t...
  • Mordatar on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: I think it is amazing the differences...

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