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My first and probably last appearance in a comic book?

12Mar2013

Vote for best international studies blog

7Jan2013

The fundamental problem with US diplomacy?

15Nov2012

The blind spots in the UN development agenda

1Nov2012

Political violence, the blog

13Jun2012

My thoughts on KONY 2012 (and a defense of Invisible Children?)

10Mar2012

What you should be reading if you want to understand the US and the Lord’s Resistance Army

21Nov2011

Is Somalia better off without a government?

25Aug2011

Unexpected sentences

17May2011

What should South Sudan do? Banerjee and Duflo weigh in (and I dissent)

12May2011

Missteps by the international community in Cote d’Ivoire

14Apr2011

From the Mzee to the Mad Dog: Museveni on Qaddafi

26Mar2011

“Why the Libyan rebels will (probably) win”

25Mar2011

Bad moon rising in southern Libya?

25Mar2011

The best introduction to the conflict in the Congo…

21Mar2011

Military interventions: Try, try again?

19Mar2011

From the battlefield to the cubicle

26Feb2011

Just in case you were feeling optimistic about North Africa and the Middle East…

21Feb2011

A US diplomat’s view on Cote d’Ivoire

14Jan2011

Is aggression any less risky than nonaggression in West Africa?

14Jan2011

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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

  • 2010: Civil war
  • 2010: War, gender and reintegration: Evidence from Uganda
  • 2011. Economic Shocks and Conflict
  • 2011: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
  • 2012: Children and War (Review)
  • 2013: Promoting order and property rights under weak rule of law
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Policy

  • 2011: Cash transfers, employment, and social stability (Mid-term results)
  • 2011: Conflict trends in Liberia
  • 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
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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
  • Research in war zones II
  • Should you become a field RA on an RCT?
  • So you want to be an impact evaluator?
  • What to bring for field work I
  • What to bring for field work II
  • What to bring to the sky
  • Why you should work in aid
  • 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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