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International development, politics, economics, and policy

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The times they are a changin’

9Jul2010

Our Liberia research hits PRI and BBC…

7Jul2010

Diversity visa bleg

4Jul2010

How is that for a national slogan?

24May2010

T-shirts I will buy

14Apr2010

I am unworthy

1Feb2010

Buffoonian filmmakers and HuffPo deviously manipulate me into a blog post

29Jan2010

The Gospel of thrift

26Dec2009

Manimal update

19Dec2009

Underpants games

18Dec2009

Manimals, continued

17Dec2009

The trouble with rule of law

15Dec2009

My brain is shedding neurons (tell me something I don’t know edition)

11Sep2009

What do surveys, whales, and manimals have in common…?

21Aug2009

Rules of the road

9Jul2009

Development blog clusters

5Jul2009

Development blog clusters

5Jul2009

News flash: there are no angels and demons in politics

3Jul2009

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

2Jul2009

Random field notes

26Jun2009

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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: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
  • 2012: Children and War (Review)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2013: The effect of cash grants on poor women
  • All

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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