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How to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic — Lessons from general equilibrium

30Apr2013

Our new husbands are here

19Apr2013

Graph of the day: “African economists care about jobs, non-Africans care about institutions?”

23Mar2013

Does poverty drive civil war? New developments in research

14Mar2013

New lessons in state building (or, Was Mamdani wrong?)

26Feb2013

Babar: tool of colonialist oppression?

24Feb2013

What Andrew Jackson teaches us about modern day development

1Feb2013

The politics behind business performance in Africa

14Jan2013

More on geography and institutions: The long term effects of the TseTse fly

13Dec2012

Colonialism and economic development in Africa

5Dec2012

The anarchist’s cookbook, updated, without the explosives, and for international audiences

13Nov2012

Africans are richer (and getting richer) than you think

30Oct2012

The White Correspondent’s Burden

14Aug2012

States are persistent

16Jul2012

Evidence my research fundraising strategies are not taking full advantage of the Internets

30Jun2012

Four African men school you on Hollywood stereotypes

30Apr2012

Mr. Malthus goes to Nigeria

16Apr2012

And we say America has a wealth in politics problem

17Feb2012

And the Exploitative Oscar goes to…

26Jan2012

Are high transport costs holding back development in Africa?

20Jan2012

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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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