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I now know what my first book cover is going to be…

14May2014

Do European settlers account for 40% of all development ever outside Europe?

14Nov2013

“Is the @NewYorker publishing puff profiles of mercenaries Executive Outcomes now? (It’s Joseph Kony-related)”

30Oct2013

Can mobile phones map income distributions in Africa?

1Oct2013

China in Africa: A multiplier effect? Interview with Mark Mobius

25Jun2013

How to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic — Lessons from general equilibrium

30Apr2013

Our new husbands are here

19Apr2013

Graph of the day: “African economists care about jobs, non-Africans care about institutions?”

23Mar2013

Does poverty drive civil war? New developments in research

14Mar2013

New lessons in state building (or, Was Mamdani wrong?)

26Feb2013

Babar: tool of colonialist oppression?

24Feb2013

What Andrew Jackson teaches us about modern day development

1Feb2013

The politics behind business performance in Africa

14Jan2013

More on geography and institutions: The long term effects of the TseTse fly

13Dec2012

Colonialism and economic development in Africa

5Dec2012

The anarchist’s cookbook, updated, without the explosives, and for international audiences

13Nov2012

Africans are richer (and getting richer) than you think

30Oct2012

The White Correspondent’s Burden

14Aug2012

States are persistent

16Jul2012

Evidence my research fundraising strategies are not taking full advantage of the Internets

30Jun2012

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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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Recent research

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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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