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IPA’s weekly links

30Mar2018

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23Feb2018

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19Jan2018

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18Aug2016

Are female politicians less warlike than men? Some evidence from European queens

18Jan2016

The answer to life, the universe and everything, including gun violence and world peace, is (once again) 42

10Dec2015

The best 400 words you can possibly read on how ISIS gets people to fight

9Oct2015

Fear, and what a century-old theologian can teach the modern social scientist

29Sep2015

Prevent crime with… therapy

22Sep2015

One of the most poignant voices on race and inequality in the the US… runs the Baltimore Orioles?

27Apr2015

Gangs as prison governments (or the economics of prisons)

8Apr2015

The civilizing process, evidence from 150 years of British court transcripts

10Jul2014

How aid agencies can find their path in fragile states

2Jul2014

What do we know about poverty and violence?

27Jun2014

Violence doesn’t pay? Evidence from French protests

2Oct2013

This is not how I pictured the monopoly of violence would arise in North Africa…

24Sep2012

Poverty does not breed support for extremism?

1Aug2012

Political violence: The research frontier

14Jun2012

Political violence, the blog

13Jun2012

The publication bias problem (and the redemption of Blattman?)

28Nov2011

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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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