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Twitter saves the day: Kenyan crimefighting edition

3Feb2012

One day I will write about this place

28Aug2011

Why don’t the poor more save more?

12Aug2011

Did the UK torture Obama’s grandfather?

20Apr2011

ICC suspect misplaces bag with $10 million at Kenya’s International Airport

14Apr2011

Why do some women engage in transactional sex? Some unconventional economic research worth reading

8Mar2011

Everything you ever wanted to know about mobile money

1Feb2011

Ask not what you can do for poor African children, but what poor African children can do for you

1Apr2010

Does political violence affect your sex life?

30Jun2009

Our turn to eat

16Jun2009

A novel approach to political union

1May2009

Kenya’s Watergate

28Feb2009

The effect of back seat driving on accident rates

2Feb2009

I am VERY jealous right now

12Jan2009

Obama in Kenya

8Jan2009

We’re conspicuously zealous now

22Dec2008

Baby names for the mother who already has a Barack or Michelle

7Nov2008

Further signs that Obama expectations may be high

7Nov2008

Obama and bin Laden in Kenya

6Nov2008

Obama, the Musical

2Nov2008

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Chris Blattman

I’m an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale. 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
  • All

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

  • 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
  • Jobs: Econ PhDs and the politics market
  • Jobs: PhD job market advice
  • MA or PhD?
  • Moving from RA to co-author
  • On quantitative field research
  • PhD students: Choosing a topic
  • PhD students: Don't lose hope
  • Writing: How to write an essay
  • Writing: How to write like a Mad Man

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