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Who is to blame for excessive administration costs in humanitarian aid?

10Feb2012

Adult swim with Oxfam

27Jan2012

Best satire of 2011?

30Dec2011

Could mobile money change aid distribution and emergency relief?

13Oct2011

Books development economists and aid workers seldom read but should?

21Jun2011

No, I will not succumb to the temptation of using a bad Three Cups of Tea pun in my title

21Apr2011

‘This American Life’ does development

2Jun2010

The UN failure in Haiti

2Mar2010

Some advice for military humanitarians

24Jan2010

What aid workers can learn from missionaries

6Jul2009

Humanitarian aid in real time

7May2009

Humanitarianism under fire

20Mar2009

To being out of touch

16Mar2009

Getting a job in development (MSF edition)

21Feb2009

Well worth posting in full

19Dec2008

More than just Black Hawk Down

14Oct2008

Look at me! I’m all noblesse oblige!

22Jun2008

Life is cheap over there

2Jun2008

AFRICOM hits a snag: Africans

2Jun2008

"Paradise" amidst the poverty

30May2008

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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

  • 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
  • 2013: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
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Policy

  • 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
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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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  • Peter Richens on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Sorry, I had not understood what...
  • Afrophile on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: @Mordatar “But this works, we...
  • Michael Woolcock on Yes, there is a hit sci fi/fantasy book series about development economics and politics: If readers are interested in...
  • Chris Blattman on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Peter, you make a good point. We...
  • Peter Richens on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: The percentage impacts look very...
  • kristie on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Excellent! Thank you so much for...
  • Raf Manji on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: Hi Chris, Nice paper. I didn’t...
  • Mordatar on Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.: I think it is amazing the differences...
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  • AEcon on Every academic’s dream: Pity this would never happen in economics.

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