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The origins of church-state separation February 13, 2010
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About Chris Blattman

I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale. 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 papers

Civil War
From Violence to Voting
Industrial Organization of Rebellion
The Consequences of Child Soldiering
Women @ War

Policy reports

Impact Evaluation 2.0
Reintegrating Youth in northern Uganda
The State of Female Youth in Northern Uganda

Do some good

Help war-affected women attend school
Rebuild an HIV community center in Uganda

Affiliations

Center for Global Development
Financial Access Initiative
Households in Conflict Network
Innovations for Poverty Action
International Growth Center
Journal of Globalization and Development
Yale Economic Growth Center
Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Blogs I read

Africa Can
Africa Works
Aid Watch
Andy Rasmussen
Blood and Milk
CGD
Dan Drezner
Dani Rodrik
David Roodman
Economic Principals
Eric Green
Financial Access Initiative
Foreign Policy
From Poverty to Power
I Dance the Internet
IPA blog
Marginal Revolution
Meaningfulness of Little Things
Owen Barder
Scarlett Lion
Social Science Statistics
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Strange Maps
Sudan Commentary
Texas in Africa
The .Plan
The Esteyonage
The Second Pass
Wronging Rights
XKCD

Podcasts I prefer

BBC's Africa Today
CGD's Global Prosperity Wonkcast
Development Drums
Meet the Press (NBC)
New Yorker Fiction
New Yorker Out Loud
New Yorker Political Scene
The Moth
This American Life

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Africa Barack Obama blogging books Center for Global Development Child soldiers China conflict Darfur development DRC drivel economic growth economics education election Ethiopia field notes field work foreign aid foreign policy health history humanitarian aid India journalism Kenya Liberia news Nigeria political science poverty program evaluation research science statistics Sudan teaching travel Uganda Uganda United Nations United States violence Zimbabwe

Archives

Advice: Development

Development tourism
Getting a job in development
What to bring for field work
Working in a developing country

Advice: Academic

10 things I tell undergraduates
Grad students: Don't lose hope
How to discuss a paper
How to get a PhD and save the world
MA or PhD?
Moving from RA to co-author
Quantitative field research
Recommendation letters
Research in war zones
The academic job market

Reading Lists

Africa (Part I)
Africa (part II)
Civil war and terror
My African Poverty and Western Aid class
Northern Uganda

Impact evaluation

Debate on development experiments
Holy evaluation!
Impact Evaluation 2.0
So you want to be an evaluator?

My shared items feed

Christians Urged to Boycott Glenn Beck By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Markets in everything, eight unconventional ways to be buried Tyler Cowen
Liberia: Confusion about the cause of violence in Lofa County Ndesanjo Macha
Chile quake moved a city by three metres (author unknown)
Academic wage stickiness Tyler Cowen

My Twitter feed

cblatts: RT @scarlettlion: Kenya Airways is the matatu of the sky. My route: Yaounde, Douala, Liberville, Mombassa, Nairobi, Accra, Monrovia.
cblatts: US grants asylum to new oppressed group: German home-schoolers http://bit.ly/b2BKKt
cblatts: Graph of the day: Where the foreign aid goes http://goo.gl/fb/tD2w
cblatts: Links I liked http://goo.gl/fb/qmIq
cblatts: Choosing a PhD http://goo.gl/fb/0e3N

Recent Comments

Jupiter Jones on Choosing a PhD: Should anyone take advice from the likes of Greg Mankiw? Me thinks not.
Nick on Aid workers: when will we ever learn?: Hi Chris – Mercy Corps initiative is called If You Only Read One Thing This Week,...
Quiet Griot on Choosing a PhD: Talking about econ here, I disagree with most of Mankiw’s advice. I think the problem might be that...
Sebastian on Choosing a PhD: I agree with Ryan – just finishing my PhD – I chose an excellent school with very solid funding...
Ryan on Choosing a PhD: Why isn’t the amount of money they offer on either list?
Dan H on Choosing a PhD: #9 on finding where graduates go is one of the most important points, but good luck getting that information....
Stephi on Getting a job in international development: Any tips for people with a child?
Maurice on Chile’s earthquake has shifted the rotation of the earth: The net effect of a migration would be zero, for the same...
paul canning on Is Uganda a good place to be gay?: I would echo Michael Yarborough’s point. Xtra! from Canada is practically the...
edawg on Mosquitoes wear beer goggles too: Isn’t 43 a pretty small N for this kind of experiment?

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