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Bad moon rising in southern Libya?

25Mar2011

The price of peace in Sudan? $30 billion

14Dec2010

Misadventures in urban planning

23Aug2010

Things that probably won’t make it onto a Save Darfur poster

29Jan2010

Probably the best economics blog in southern Sudan

26Aug2009

The appropriation of African activism?

7Jul2009

A Thinkavist Manifesto

19Jun2009

It’s raining Sudan

24Apr2009

More good things to say about the ICC…

27Mar2009

Save Darfur: the new colonialism?

22Mar2009

Hakuna Matata, Bashir

20Mar2009

Megalomania in the ICC

10Mar2009

On Bashir

7Mar2009

Is the International Criminal Court contravening international law?

1Sep2008

Genocide: debauching the currency?

25Jul2008

Are the ICC indictments backfiring?

17Jul2008

Where can you find the best debates on Sudan?

16Jul2008

Seven reasons to pause

15Jul2008

The ICC: Fast, cheap and out of control

14Jul2008

War between Sudan and Chad imminent?

16May2008

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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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