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The White Correspondent’s Burden

14Aug2012

Haiti’s irrelevance to the American public

1May2010

Gabriel García Márquez, investigative journalist

27Jan2010

Messaging, the media, and Haiti

19Jan2010

On the perils of the “contact me” tab

11Jan2010

Foreign correspondents, amok

1Dec2009

Where has all the investigative reporting gone? To the blogosphere.

6Oct2009

Speak American, but sparingly

2Oct2009

Poisoned Wells

27Aug2009

Democracy in dangerous places

8Jul2009

The one that got away

2Jul2009

A development blog you’re probably not reading (but should)

2Jul2009

Our turn to eat

16Jun2009

Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps (Africa edition)

19Mar2009

Kenya’s Watergate

28Feb2009

Zimbabwe’s banker: I ain’t crying over the recent credit crunch

25Jan2009

His cracks are better than mine

12Jan2009

My BBC bubble bursts

18Dec2008

From the mouths of pirates

4Dec2008

Prison notebooks of a Ugandan journalist

1Dec2008

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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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