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Africans are richer (and getting richer) than you think

30Oct2012

Risk is bad

24Oct2012

What are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations Around the Developing World?

28Sep2012

Poverty does not breed support for extremism?

1Aug2012

Why is Africa poor and politically volatile and what, if anything, can and should the West do about it?

13Jan2012

“The problem with NGOs and the rights based approach in development”

20Jul2011

The ethics of poverty tourism

18Jul2011

What should South Sudan do? Banerjee and Duflo weigh in (and I dissent)

12May2011

Good sentences

24Apr2011

Does poverty lead to violence? (The other view)

4Apr2011

The poverty enlightenment, part deux

11Feb2011

Small answers to the big questions

3Feb2011

To give conditionally or unconditionally?

22Dec2010

Just give the poor cash?

15Nov2010

Does investing in women really help children?

21Sep2010

Poverty and terrorism

30Aug2010

Stop nudging and start pushing

17Jul2010

Things your average development researcher doesn’t do…

23Jun2010

Maps that changed the world

26May2010

Poverty professionals and poverty

12May2010

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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
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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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