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More taxes for Africa

6Oct2014

A book that help change the way I think about politics in developing countries

29Jun2014

Yes, even the poorest of the poor can be entrepreneurs (or, further adventures in my cash transfer fetish)

21May2014

Employing and empowering marginalized women

5Feb2014

Fake decentralization

31Jan2014

Cash versus microfinance versus training: The randomized control trial

26Nov2013

“Is the @NewYorker publishing puff profiles of mercenaries Executive Outcomes now? (It’s Joseph Kony-related)”

30Oct2013

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

23Sep2013

Why all the attention to cash transfers now?

31May2013

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

My first and probably last appearance in a comic book?

12Mar2013

Beyond Kony 2012

4May2012

Making sense of Kony

20Apr2012

What you should be reading if you want to understand the US and the Lord’s Resistance Army

21Nov2011

Talk in DC this week

6Nov2011

For whom the bomb tolls

5Jul2011

Annals of irrationality: microfinance repayment edition

10May2011

From the Mzee to the Mad Dog: Museveni on Qaddafi

26Mar2011

Idiosyncratic usage

4Mar2011

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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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  • 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
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  • 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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