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IPA’s weekly links

5Oct2018

IPA’s weekly links

19May2017

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

4Jan2017

The Warren Buffet approach to foreign aid

19Feb2016

Is the future of foreign aid in Europe the broken U.S. system?

15Dec2015

IPA’s weekly links

5Nov2015

This is what happens when Reddit notices something on your website

2Nov2015

In case you thought most foreign aid went to poor people, let me depress you with one great map

30Oct2015

Dear governments and aid agencies: Please stop hurting poor people with your skills training programs

25Jun2015

Just when I despair that decades of intellectual work on development have fallen on deaf ears, comes stuff like this

23Jun2015

Humanitarian aid organizations are bloated, unaccountable beasts that must be hunted down for their voluminous and valuable fat

16Jun2015

These weak states of America (aid and corruption edition)

20May2015

Grading Bill and Melinda Gates’ annual letter

23Jan2015

How on earth did I find myself the defender of the IMF?

7Jan2015

Video of the decade: SNL on giving 39 cents a day

21Oct2014

Essential reading on foreign aid

26Aug2014

Win $20,000 to be part of the problem?

22Aug2014

“The dream is the truth”

8Jul2014

Social engineering in the Congo

19Jun2014

Bleg: Where can I find data on full program costs for aid projects?

7Jan2014

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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?
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  • Impacts of factory jobs on health and wealth
  • Reducing crime and violence via behavioral therapy

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Advice: Development

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  • How to take advantage of an MA program
  • Research in war zones I
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  • Should you become a field RA on an RCT?
  • So you want to be an impact evaluator?
  • What to bring for field work I
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Advice: Professional

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  • How to ask for a recommendation letter
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  • 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
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