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What to bring to the field

24Jul2010

Field work in the tropics

21Apr2009

So you want to be an impact evaluator? A chance.

12Jan2009

What’s he doing in Liberia anyways?

8Aug2008

RA versus co-author

1Jul2008

Advice for working in a developing country

2Jun2008

How to get your field work fix

18Apr2008

A lesson in U.N. accountability

28Mar2008

The academic poseur, in Liberia

23Mar2008

Confessions of a hustler

22Mar2008

So you want to go to a (post) war zone?

10Mar2008

Displacement and return in northern Uganda

17Feb2008

Notes from the field: Vanity projects versus development

7Dec2007

A good time to be heading back to the US?

6Dec2007

Field notes: Do grasslands cause civil war?

6Dec2007

Field notes: Inside the sausage factory

5Dec2007

You know it’s no longer a war zone…

4Dec2007

Field notes: Dinner party conversations I don’t have in Washington or New York

3Dec2007

Field notes: Why we didn’t make it to Mucwini camp yesterday

2Dec2007

Are Kidega and Ocaya more employable than Amara and Okec?

30Nov2007

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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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