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11Aug2017

Does foreign aid buy votes for bad governments? This study from Uganda shows the opposite.

4Jan2017

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18Nov2016

Phantom poll changes

4Nov2016

“How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind”

27Oct2016

At least a little good news this election season

26Oct2016

There aren’t many times I can say “I haven’t seen this point made in all the Trump coverage” but for me this is one of them

18Oct2016

A lesson in survey weights (and data transparency)

12Oct2016

One more reason to be wistful of politics north of the border

14Sep2016

The one website that satisfies my election prediction obsession

12Jul2016

The wrong story about Trump

7Jul2016

Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining the Trump campaign to advise on development and humanitarian assistance…

1Apr2016

An open letter to Senator Chuck Grassley from an Iowan high school student

31Mar2016

This blogger might be the only thing that makes sense of this election season (and help you keep your sanity)

28Mar2016

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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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