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The question is not whether Republicans won the debt ceiling battle, but which Republicans.

12Aug2011

The effects of the Vietnam draft lottery on political attitudes

25Jun2011

Huntsman the cave man?

23Jun2011

Books development economists and aid workers seldom read but should?

21Jun2011

Signs of partisanship gone even more horribly awry

7Jun2011

Response from Banerjee and Duflo

13May2011

Worrying trends in Rwanda

18Aug2010

Where have all the African revolutionaries gone?

18Aug2010

Authoritarian roulette

16Aug2010

A rather obvious but increasingly necessary Sunday morality lesson for the foreign policy community

15Aug2010

Zuma: full of surprises

23Jul2010

What weathercasters believe

18Apr2010

The politics of personal rule (reconceived by Stephen King)

8Nov2009

Human rights as idolatry

2Nov2009

Penguin partisans

1Oct2009

Canada’s Obama. Only white. And more boring.

8Sep2009

Kofi Annan smack down

29Aug2009

News flash: there are no angels and demons in politics

3Jul2009

Newsflash: White journalist does not despise Jacob Zuma

4Jun2009

A novel approach to political union

1May2009

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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. Economic Shocks and Conflict
  • 2011: The logic of child soldiering and coercion
  • 2012: Children and War (Review)
  • 2013: Promoting order and property rights under weak rule of law
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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
  • 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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