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21Aug2009

Theory of international politics, updated for ultra-violent zombie mayhem

18Aug2009

Update on China vs India

12Aug2009

China, India and Africa: the big picture

11Aug2009

Papers I liked

21Jul2009

Why your economics and politics professors seem to have so little time for you

17Jul2009

Should economics be even harder to enter?

15May2009

Experimental politics

24Apr2009

The decline of (academic) public intellectuals

13Apr2009

Disaster politics

4Mar2009

International nefariousness on the decline. Take that, cynics!

28Jan2009

My bleg: seminal papers with fatal flaws

4Jan2009

Academic job market advice

9Nov2008

No to Mo money

21Oct2008

The end of the ANC?

8Oct2008

Trouble ahead in Nigeria?

21Aug2008

The origin of African checks and balances?

28Jul2008

What do American political scientists, Voltaire, and gay couples have in common?

1May2008

Will Russia’s new President play second fiddle for long?

3Mar2008

Africa reading list

29Jan2008

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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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