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Does foreign aid improve or reduce human rights and governance?

21Jan2013

Is Somalia better off without a government?

25Aug2011

A rather obvious but increasingly necessary Sunday morality lesson for the foreign policy community

15Aug2010

The Africa of the night

4Feb2010

China in Africa: A China-bashing backlash

30Jan2010

Because TPS just ain’t enough

24Jan2010

Some advice for military humanitarians

24Jan2010

“The UN of today is not the UN I entered”

22Jan2010

The number one sign you might be about to lose a war

11Jan2010

The other Clinton, on development strategies

7Jan2010

Bill Clinton picks his world leaders to watch

7Jan2010

Do sanctions kill babies?

4Jan2010

Dani Rodrik: Give China a break

3Jan2010

Copenhagen post-mortem

19Dec2009

Development as firefighting

16Dec2009

Word of the day: Nonindifference

19Nov2009

This thing called Kroll

21Oct2009

Markets in everything: foreign aid edition

20Oct2009

Charter Cities debate, round 2

14Oct2009

Your aid dollars at work… suppressing voters

27Sep2009

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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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