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For all you Facebook-y people

21Mar2013

The great Google Reader migration of 2013

18Mar2013

How to subscribe to this blog by email

13Mar2013

RSS and email readers of this blog: Hopefully there will be no interruption in your service

1Mar2013

Vote for best international studies blog

7Jan2013

What is the best international studies blog?

11Dec2012

Happy Blogiversary

16Oct2012

Political violence, the blog

13Jun2012

Blogging will be slow to non-existent the next 2-3 weeks

11May2012

The promise of blogging also has its perils

20Mar2012

All quiet on the electronic front

29Feb2012

RSS problems fixed, I hope

28Feb2012

After years of hoping the big development and political economists would start blogging, I get my wish

27Feb2012

“Thank you very much. That makes up for the strip-search.”

25Feb2012

More on yesterday’s cheap shot at @freakonomics and @WSJIdeasMarket

28Jan2012

Do the big newspaper blogs plagiarize?

27Jan2012

2011, the annual report

1Jan2012

Important new African politics and development blog

15Dec2011

Are bloggers journalists? The long view

14Dec2011

Quote of the day

19Oct2011

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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: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
  • 2012: Children and War (Review)
  • 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
  • All

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
  • 2013: The effect of cash grants on poor women
  • All

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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