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Monthly Archives: February 2011

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Poor economics…

28Feb2011

Exactly what are African growth statistics based on?

28Feb2011

Links I liked

27Feb2011

Under pressure

26Feb2011

How to buy fine olive oil

26Feb2011

From the battlefield to the cubicle

26Feb2011

How to pass your US citizenship test: Give the wrong answers

25Feb2011

11 things you may not have known about economics

25Feb2011

The honeymoon is over?

23Feb2011

Every time someone takes a job in finance, somewhere in the world a puppy dies

22Feb2011

Just in case you were feeling optimistic about North Africa and the Middle East…

21Feb2011

Links I liked

20Feb2011

Some upcoming talks

19Feb2011

Politics is child’s play

18Feb2011

Fickle attentions (Ivory Coast edition)

18Feb2011

Revolution in 93 pages

17Feb2011

Will someone please send to South Sudan the collected works of Jane Jacobs?

16Feb2011

Old versus young lions of Africa

14Feb2011

Normally the first thing I do with the business section of the Times is toss it in recycling, but today…

13Feb2011

Uganda goes to the polls in 5 days

13Feb2011

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Chris Blattman

I'm a Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. I use field work and statistics to study poverty, political engagement, the causes and consequences of violence, and policy in developing countries. [Read more]

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  • Do anti-poverty programs sway voters?
  • Does policing simply push crime around the corner?
  • Impacts of factory jobs on health and wealth
  • Reducing crime and violence via behavioral therapy

Policy

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  • Bill Gates wants to give the poor chickens, but what they need is cash
  • Everything we knew about sweatshops was wrong
  • Strategies for reducing crime and violence in developing countries

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: Professional

  • Advice for new Asst Profs
  • Applying to PhDs
  • Choosing an MA, MPA or MIA
  • 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
  • Just say no
  • Moving from RA to co-author
  • Negotiating your academic job offer
  • 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
  • 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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