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IPA’s weekly links

12Aug2016

Why “what works?” is the wrong question: Evaluating ideas not programs

19Jul2016

“Society is paying a high price in dollars and human suffering for wrong assumptions.”

12Oct2015

Is this the most effective development program in history?

24Sep2015

The effects of conditional cash transfers on education: Evidence from 42 programs in 15 countries

18Oct2013

End poverty by giving the poor cash?

20Jun2013

Learning from experiments that didn’t happen

5Jun2013

Dear governments: Want to help the poor and transform your economy? Give people cash.

23May2013

Invest in women? The effects of aid on female entrepreneurship

2May2013

The difficulty of generalizing RCT results (the RCT result)

30Jan2013

New evidence on microfinance

21Nov2012

Come hear another way we can fight Kony’s legacy

18Mar2012

The case for land redistribution?

22Feb2012

Unintended consequences of anti-corruption campaigns

20Feb2012

Can you turn swords into ploughshares? (Or a paper, for that matter?)

12Dec2011

The Millennium Villages, evaluated? A skeptical view

29Nov2011

Cash transfers reduce child labor

21Nov2011

Is education liberation? Evidence from Kenyan girls.

7Nov2011

Can education campaigns change respect for human rights and conflict after war?

23Sep2011

The Ravallion critique of program evaluation

25May2011

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

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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
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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
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  • 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
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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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