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IPA’s weekly links

18Jan2019

IPA’s weekly links

23Feb2018

IPA’s weekly links

5May2017

The one website that satisfies my election prediction obsession

12Jul2016

“Politics is the field of unintended consequences”

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

The war on drugs explained by a Nixon adviser (or not)

22Mar2016

IPA’s weekly links

3Dec2015

IPA’s weekly links

23Oct2015

Eating pizza makes America more Republican

3Mar2015

Do Republican Presidents kill babies?

15Nov2013

Today’s politicians are made of weaker stuff?

14Oct2013

Shutdown comments: The loony right is not so loony as you think?

2Oct2013

Political science increases my opinion of humanity one tiny bit today

4Jun2013

The little secret of policymaking

4Apr2013

The Democratic-Republican role reversal in technology

17Feb2013

As though I didn’t think humans were ridiculous enough already

11Feb2013

Social scientists run amok

7Nov2012

Political violence, the blog

13Jun2012

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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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