Chris Blattman

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Chris Blattman is affiliated with the following schools: University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, University of Waterloo, University of Chicago, Columbia University

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PhD Political Science Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Christopher Blattman is a Canadian-American economist and political scientist working on conflict, crime, and international development. He is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies and The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts. He is active on Twitter as well as an early blogger on international economics and politics. He is the author of Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, published by Viking Press in 2022.

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Chris Blattman's Published Works

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Published Works

From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda (2009) (722)
The Consequences of Child Soldiering (2010) (514)
Can War Foster Cooperation? (2016) (447)
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda* (2014) (415)
Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices (2013) (401)
Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870–1939 (2007) (343)
Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda (2011) (234)
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia (2015) (222)
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015) (186)
The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion (2013) (163)
The state of female youth in northern Uganda: Findings from the Survey of War-Affected Youth (SWAY) Phase II. (2008) (158)
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2015) (147)
The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda (2015) (147)
How to Promote Order and Property Rights under Weak Rule of Law? An Experiment in Changing Dispute Resolution Behavior through Community Education (2013) (119)
The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change (2004) (98)
The Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (2017) (91)
Child combatants in northern Uganda: Reintegration myths and realities (2008) (86)
Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda (SSM-D-14-01580R1). (2015) (84)
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia (2016) (82)
The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program (2018) (79)
Place Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime (2017) (77)
Building women’s economic and social empowerment through enterprise: an experimental assessment of the Women’s Income Generating Support (WINGS) Program in Uganda. (2013) (77)
Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work (2016) (70)
Assessing the Need and Potential of Community Networking for Development in Rural India Special Issue: ICTs and Community Networking (2003) (65)
Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data (2015) (65)
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda (2013) (64)
Women and Girls at War: Wives, Mothers, and Fighters in the Lord s Resistance Army (2009) (61)
The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938 (2003) (55)
Civil War. NBER Working Paper No. 14801. (2009) (54)
Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda (2011) (54)
On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: What the abductees say (2008) (54)
The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Labor and Child Soldiering (2010) (51)
Predicting local violence (2015) (49)
Do Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda (2016) (38)
Credit constraints, occupational choice and the process of development : long run evidence from cash transfers in Uganda (2013) (34)
Pushing crime around the corner ? Estimating experimental impacts of large-scale security interventions ∗ (2017) (33)
The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia (2019) (32)
Hotspot interventions at scale: the effects of policing and city services on crime in Bogotá, Colombia (2018) (32)
Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938 (2003) (30)
Reintegrating and Employing High Risk Youth in Liberia: Lessons from a randomized evaluation of a Landmine Action an agricultural training program for ex-combatants (2013) (30)
Enhancing the competitiveness of Kenya's manufacturing sector: the role of the investment climate (2004) (28)
Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance (2021) (26)
Does poverty alleviation decrease depression symptoms in post-conflict settings? A cluster-randomized trial of microenterprise assistance in Northern Uganda (2016) (24)
Show them the money (2014) (21)
Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-Year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia (2019) (19)
Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Price- Working Paper 274 (2011) (18)
Can employment programs reduce poverty and social instability? Experimental evidence from a Ugandan aid program (2012) (17)
Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda (2019) (16)
The returns to cash and microenterprise support among the ultra-poor: A field experiment∗ (2014) (15)
Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-Run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia (2018) (15)
Building institutions at the micro-level: Results from a field experiment in property dispute and conflict resolution (2012) (14)
ASSESSING THE NEED AND POTENTIAL OF COMMUNITY NETWORKING FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES : A CASE STUDY FROM INDIA (2002) (13)
Post-conflict Recovery in Africa : The Micro Level (2010) (12)
American Economic Review: Insights (2019) (10)
A Market Equilibrium Approach to Reduce the Incidence of Vote-Buying : Evidence from Uganda ∗ (2017) (9)
Reducing Crime and Violence (2016) (9)
Employing and empowering marginalized women: A randomized trial of microenterprise assistance (2014) (7)
Reintegrating and Employing High Risk Youth in Liberia: Lessons from a randomized evaluation of a Landmine Action agricultural training program for ex-combatants Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of Peacebuilding in Liberia: Policy Report 2011.1 (2012) (6)
The Political Consequences of Crime Victimization in Latin America (2009) (6)
Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research (2009) (5)
Young people and the experience of war in Uganda. (2007) (4)
Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science (2012) (4)
Measuring the measurement error: A method to qualitatively validate sensitive survey data ⇤ (2014) (4)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years: Experimental Evidence (2022) (3)
Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research (2009) (3)
Employment Generation in Rural Africa (2011) (3)
Building Women ’ s Economic and Social Empowerment Through Enterprise in Uganda Project Overview RESEARCHERS : (2013) (3)
Pilot Results from an Experimental Study of Industrial Labor in Ethiopia (2016) (2)
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RETURNS TO CASH TRANSFERS : EVIDENCE FROM A UGANDAN AID PROGRAM 1 (2013) (2)
Corrigendum to “Women's entrepreneurship and intimate partner violence: A cluster randomized trial of microenterprise assistance and partner participation in post-conflict Uganda” [Soc. Sci. Med. 133 (2015) 177–188] (2016) (2)
State building in the city: The effects of public security and services on crime, violence and state legitimacy in Bogotá (2018) (2)
Affective Neuroscience meets Labor Economics : Assessing Non-Cognitive skills on Late Stage Investment on at-Risk Youth ∗ (2016) (2)
If you give the poor cash, does it help? (2013) (1)
The Consequences of Child Soldiering * March 2009 Forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics (2009) (1)
Liberia : can employment opportunities help build peace? (2014) (1)
More Sweatshops for Africa? Pilot Results from an Experimental Study of Industrial Labor in Ethiopia (Policy Brief) (2012) (1)
Supplementary Appendix : Can War Foster Cooperation ? (2016) (0)
The Impact of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Cash Transfers on High-Risk Young Men in Liberia (2020) (0)
Improving Security through Concentrated Policing in Bogotá, Colombia (2021) (0)
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES GANG RULE: UNDERSTANDING AND COUNTERING CRIMINAL GOVERNANCE (2021) (0)
The Impacts of Intensive Municipal Governance and Community Organization on Gang Governance in Medellín (2019) (0)
Nber Working Paper Series Can War Foster Cooperation? Can War Foster Cooperation? Case Evidence on the Effects of Exposure to Wartime Violence Disentangling Correlation and Causation Meta-analysis (2016) (0)
The Effects of Industrial Work on Income and Health: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (2016) (0)
Sustainable Transformation for Youth in Liberia (2016) (0)
Many people inside and outside the World Bank gave comments to the team. Valuable com (2011) (0)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as a Cost-Effective Tool for Sustained Violence Reduction (2022) (0)
Generating Skilled Youth Self-Employment (2015) (0)
Working Paper Number 166 March 2009 Civil War (2009) (0)
The Sustainable Transformation of Youth in Liberia (STYL) Program (2015) (0)
More Sweatshops for Africa? Pilot Results from an Experimental Study of Industrial Labor in Ethiopia (IGC Working Paper) (2012) (0)
Online Appendix The long term impacts of gra.nts on poverty: 9-year evidence from Uganda’s Youth Opportunities Program (0)
Worth Every Cent (2015) (0)
State-building on the Margin: An Urban Experiment in Medellín (2018) (0)
APSR EXTERNAL REVIEWERS, 2008–2009 (2009) (0)
Flat-footed Giants : Zaibatsu and Industrialization in (2006) (0)
Civil War March 2009 (2009) (0)
Civil War (2009) (0)
Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of Readi Chicago (2023) (0)
NUSAF Youth Opportunities Program: Impact Evaluation Results (2011) (0)
What works to Prevent Violence Amongst Youth (2020) (0)

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