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IPA’s weekly links

18Oct2019

IPA’s weekly links

23Feb2018

Come work with me to build two huge new research initiatives on violence reduction and recovery

25Jan2017

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

19Jul2016

Will Paul Romer get the World Bank out of the randomista business and into Charter Cities?

18Jul2016

Is there a methodological war in development economics?

17Jun2016

Preregistration of clinical trials causes medicines to stop working!

1Mar2016

Has the randomized trial movement has put the auditors in charge of the R&D department?

25Feb2016

A lot of people think field experiments make scholars ask small questions, but I think they’ll push us to answer the big ones

8Jan2016

I am going to have this comic blown up and framed on my door

3Jan2016

Clusterjerk, the much anticipated sequel

11Dec2015

Clusterjerk

8Dec2015

Why I worry experimental social science is headed in the wrong direction

7Dec2015

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

12Oct2015

This tool will help you engineer the results you want from randomized trials!

29Jul2015

The latest in faith-based development: Randomized control trials?

11Mar2014

Randomized evaluations: The handbook(s)

22Nov2013

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

18Oct2013

How to create skilled jobs in poor countries? Cash transfers and self-employment in Africa

23Sep2013

Is it nuts to give money to the poor?

19Aug2013

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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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  • 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 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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