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New course blog

2Sep2008

For novelists, and bedtime, war is not the answer

22Aug2008

Gorby on Geogia

21Aug2008

Do you (or your students) want to manage randomized evaluations in Liberia?

19Aug2008

BBC radio calms the food riots?

18Aug2008

Can property rights make peace?

11Aug2008

What’s he doing in Liberia anyways?

8Aug2008

Should the U.S. send ground troops into Saskatchewan?

27Jul2008

When things fell apart

19Jul2008

Civil war: What is it good for?

11Jun2008

Where has all the terrorism (and war) gone?

21May2008

The wages of terror (versus road building)

20May2008

Child Soldier, the comic book

16May2008

War between Sudan and Chad imminent?

16May2008

Development and conflict news sources

13May2008

Women after war

29Apr2008

A new approach to Darfur: Shake hands with the devil

24Apr2008

Food prices and the New York Times

18Apr2008

The myth of economic recovery

16Apr2008

Make sport not war

30Mar2008

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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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