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26Jan2018

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7Oct2016

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18Aug2016

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10Jun2016

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1Apr2016

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24Mar2016

IPA’s weekly links

25Feb2016

38% of women in Monrovia report being paid for sex by United Nations personnel, and more than half the women were under 18

10Nov2015

Who runs the UN?

18Sep2014

The blind spots in the UN development agenda

1Nov2012

Who is to blame for excessive administration costs in humanitarian aid?

10Feb2012

First class missions, and everything else that’s wrong with the big development agency travel culture

11Oct2011

If a tree falls in a small and obscure UN agency, does it make a sound?

12Jul2011

Missteps by the international community in Cote d’Ivoire

14Apr2011

Military interventions: Try, try again?

19Mar2011

The U.N. home security system

15Dec2010

Reasons why Brazil, China, India, and South Africa should not get seats on the UN Security Council

23Nov2010

Video of the day: The young generation’s message to the United Nations

18Nov2010

FYI: If an alien ever asks “take me to your leader”, please direct them to the relevant UN office

27Sep2010

The UN failure in Haiti

2Mar2010

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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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