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The misallocation of U.S. foreign aid

2Nov2008

Podcast of the month: Kofi Annan on the failure of African leadership

26Oct2008

No to Mo money

21Oct2008

What will an Obama Presidency look like to Africa?

18Oct2008

Did China force Mugabe’s hand?

21Sep2008

America and the world (Sarah Palin edition?)

21Sep2008

What the future holds for Zimbabwe

16Sep2008

A neo-con on neo-cons

8Sep2008

Qaddafi: From mad dog to love hound

7Sep2008

The One (of Rwanda)

24Aug2008

Easterly on Obama

18Jul2008

Obama’s Marshall Plan

15Jul2008

Nuanced African political analysis in the New York Times?!

26Jun2008

Should Mugabe be denounced?

18Jun2008

What if a unicorn were on the U.S. National Security Council?

10Jun2008

Unity governments: good enough for Africa, but not us?

19May2008

Is the U.S. Peace Corps a failure?

30Apr2008

The world’s top 100 public intellectuals

25Apr2008

A new approach to Darfur: Shake hands with the devil

24Apr2008

Thank you for calling the Embassy of Zimbabwe

17Apr2008

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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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