Chris Blattman

Non-Resident Fellow
Fragile states, governance/democracy, poverty
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Education: PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley (2007), MPA/ID from Harvard Kennedy School (2002), BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo (1998)
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Chris Blattman is a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development and an assistant professor of political science and economics at Yale University. In addition to being a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development, Blattman is a Research Affiliate with Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a board member of the Journal of Globalization and Development (JGD), and a member of the International Growth Center (IGC). He also acts as a consultant and adviser to the World Bank, UNICEF, the UN Peacebuilding Fund, Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister, and Liberia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Blattman’ research focuses on poverty alleviation, political participation, the causes and consequences of violence and war, with a particular focus on East and West Africa. He uses surveys, impact evaluations, and behavioral experiments to study the dynamics of poverty and participation, and to study what development programs work and why. A number of impact evaluations are presently underway in Uganda and Liberia, studying the impacts of training and job creation on poverty and social and political life of war-affected youth.

His development research site and blog is http://chrisblattman.com. He has also published articles in the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Development Economics, the Journal of Economic Literature, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Blattman obtained a BA with high honors from University of Waterloo, and an MPA/ID from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

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Non-CGD Publications

The Consequences of Child Soldiering (with Jeannie Annan)

On the nature and causes of LRA abduction: What the abductees say (with Jeannie Annan), Draft chapter for an volume on the Lord’s Resistance Army, edited by T. Allen and K. Vlassenroot

Winners and Losers in the Commodity Lottery: The Impact of Terms of Trade Growth and Volatility in the Periphery, 1870-1939, joint with J. Hwang and J.G. Williamson, forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics.

The State of Youth and Youth Protection in Northern Uganda: Findings from the Survey for War-Affected Youth, A Report for UNICEF Uganda, with J. Annan and R. Horton, 2006.

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