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About 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 papers

Civil War
From Violence to Voting
Industrial Organization of Rebellion
The Consequences of Child Soldiering
Women @ War

Policy reports

Impact Evaluation 2.0
Reintegrating Youth in northern Uganda
The State of Female Youth in Northern Uganda

Do some good

Help war-affected women attend school
Rebuild an HIV community center in Uganda

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Center for Global Development
Financial Access Initiative
Households in Conflict Network
Innovations for Poverty Action
International Growth Center
Journal of Globalization and Development
Yale Economic Growth Center
Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies

Blogs I read

Africa Can
Africa Works
Aid Watch
Andy Rasmussen
Blood and Milk
CGD
Dan Drezner
Dani Rodrik
David Roodman
Economic Principals
Eric Green
Financial Access Initiative
Foreign Policy
From Poverty to Power
I Dance the Internet
IPA blog
Marginal Revolution
Meaningfulness of Little Things
Owen Barder
Scarlett Lion
Social Science Statistics
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Strange Maps
Sudan Commentary
Texas in Africa
The .Plan
The Esteyonage
The Second Pass
Wronging Rights
XKCD

Podcasts I prefer

BBC's Africa Today
CGD's Global Prosperity Wonkcast
Development Drums
Meet the Press (NBC)
New Yorker Fiction
New Yorker Out Loud
New Yorker Political Scene
The Moth
This American Life

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Advice: Development

Development tourism
Getting a job in development
What to bring for field work
Working in a developing country

Advice: Academic

10 things I tell undergraduates
Grad students: Don't lose hope
How to discuss a paper
How to get a PhD and save the world
MA or PhD?
Moving from RA to co-author
Quantitative field research
Recommendation letters
Research in war zones
The academic job market

Reading Lists

Africa (Part I)
Africa (part II)
Civil war and terror
My African Poverty and Western Aid class
Northern Uganda

Impact evaluation

Debate on development experiments
Holy evaluation!
Impact Evaluation 2.0
So you want to be an evaluator?

My shared items feed

Academic wage stickiness Tyler Cowen
Misplaced reality priorities James Choi
Happy Weekend Glenna
Fifty years of African decolonisation Emeka Okafor
More good news about Africa Tyler Cowen

My Twitter feed

cblatts: RT @akhilak: They're here, they're queer, and governments from Africa to Asia don't quite know what to do about it. http://bit.ly/aIKhRd
cblatts: Is Uganda a good place to be gay? http://goo.gl/fb/yOG4
cblatts: suggestions? RT @texasinafrica: I get to change a course title from "Third World Politics" to something less 1984. What would you choose?
cblatts: @texasinafrica "Why are some countries poor, unequal and unstable?"
cblatts: what's going on in rwanda? http://bit.ly/bP5UxK

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