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Invest in women? The effects of aid on female entrepreneurship

2May2013

The difficulty of generalizing RCT results (the RCT result)

30Jan2013

New evidence on microfinance

21Nov2012

Come hear another way we can fight Kony’s legacy

18Mar2012

The case for land redistribution?

22Feb2012

Unintended consequences of anti-corruption campaigns

20Feb2012

Can you turn swords into ploughshares? (Or a paper, for that matter?)

12Dec2011

The Millennium Villages, evaluated? A skeptical view

29Nov2011

Cash transfers reduce child labor

21Nov2011

Is education liberation? Evidence from Kenyan girls.

7Nov2011

Can education campaigns change respect for human rights and conflict after war?

23Sep2011

The Ravallion critique of program evaluation

25May2011

Go short on randomized control trials?

21May2011

Observational studies: not so bad as you think?

2May2011

The new impact evaluation blog to read

20Apr2011

Behavioral economics and randomized trials: trumpeted, attacked and parried

24Mar2011

Do financial incentives for teachers improve student performance? Evidence from NYC

7Mar2011

Impact evaluation: makes sense if you don’t think about it too hard?

7Mar2011

To give conditionally or unconditionally?

22Dec2010

The new must-read paper for field experimenters

20Dec2010

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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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