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Christopher Blattman

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First Name:Christopher
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Last Name:Blattman
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RePEc Short-ID:pbl37
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Twitter: @cblatts
Terminal Degree:2007 Department of Economics; University of California-Berkeley (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois (United States)
http://harris.uchicago.edu/
RePEc:edi:spuchus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Monica P. Bhatt & Sara B. Heller & Max Kapustin & Marianne Bertrand & Christopher Blattman, 2023. "Predicting and Preventing Gun Violence: An Experimental Evaluation of READI Chicago," NBER Working Papers 30852, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Christopher Blattman & Gustavo Duncan & Benjamin Lessing & Santiago Tobon, 2022. "Civilian alternatives to policing: Evidence from Medellín’s community problem-solving intervention Operación Convivencia," NBER Working Papers 29692, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Christopher Blattman & Sebastian Chaskel & Julian C. Jamison & Margaret Sheridan, 2022. "Cognitive Behavior Therapy Reduces Crime and Violence over 10 Years: Experimental Evidence," NBER Working Papers 30049, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Christopher Blattman & Gustavo Duncan & Benjamin Lessing & Santiago Tobón, 2021. "Gang rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance," NBER Working Papers 28458, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Christopher Blattman & Stefan Dercon & Simon Franklin, 2019. "Impacts of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Jobs on Youth: 5-year Experimental Evidence on Factory Job Offers and Cash Grants in Ethiopia," NBER Working Papers 25788, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Samuel Bazzi & Robert A. Blair & Christopher Blattman & Oeindrila Dube & Matthew Gudgeon & Richard Merton Peck, 2019. "The Promise and Pitfalls of Conflict Prediction: Evidence from Colombia and Indonesia," NBER Working Papers 25980, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Christopher Blattman & Horacio Larreguy & Benjamin Marx & Otis R. Reid, 2019. "Eat Widely, Vote Wisely? Lessons from a Campaign Against Vote Buying in Uganda," NBER Working Papers 26293, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Alexandra C. Hartman & Robert A. Blair & Christopher Blattman, 2018. "Engineering Informal Institutions: Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia," NBER Working Papers 24482, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Christopher Blattman & Nathan Fiala & Sebastian Martinez, 2018. "The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-year Evidence From Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program," NBER Working Papers 24999, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Christopher Blattman & Donald Green & Daniel Ortega & Santiago Tobón, 2017. "Place-Based Interventions at Scale: The Direct and Spillover Effects of Policing and City Services on Crime," NBER Working Papers 23941, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Christopher Blattman & Mathilde Emeriau & Nathan Fiala, 2017. "Do Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda," NBER Working Papers 23035, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Blattman,Christopher & Jamison,Julian C & Sheridan,Margaret, 2016. "Reducing crime and violence : experimental evidence on adult noncognitive investments in Liberia," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7648, The World Bank.
  13. Christopher Blattman & Julian Jamison & Margaret Sheridan, 2016. "Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia," Artefactual Field Experiments 00544, The Field Experiments Website.
  14. Blattman, Christopher & Dercon, Stefan, 2016. "Occupational choice in early industrializing societies: Experimental evidence on the income and health effects of industrial an," CEPR Discussion Papers 11556, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  15. Christopher Blattman & Julian Jamison & Margaret Sheridan, 2016. "Reducing crime and violence: Experimental evidence from cognitive behavioral therapy in Liberia [Appendix]," Artefactual Field Experiments 00545, The Field Experiments Website.
  16. Chytilová, Julie & Blattman, Christopher & Bauer, Michal & Henrich, Joseph & Miguel, Edward & Mitts, Tamar, 2016. "Can War Foster Cooperation?," CEPR Discussion Papers 11327, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  17. Blattman, Christopher J. & Dercon, Stefan, 2016. "Occupational Choice in Early Industrializing Societies: Experimental Evidence on the Income and Health Effects of Industrial and Entrepreneurial Work," IZA Discussion Papers 10255, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
  18. Christopher Blattman & Julian C. Jamison & Tricia Koroknay-Palicz & Katherine Rodrigues & Margaret Sheridan, 2015. "Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Survey Data," NBER Working Papers 21447, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  19. Christopher Blattman & Eric P. Green & Julian C. Jamison & M. Christian Lehmann & Jeannie Annan, 2015. "The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda," NBER Working Papers 21310, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  20. Christopher Blattman & Jeannie Annan, 2015. "Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State," NBER Working Papers 21289, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Christopher Blattman & Alexandra Hartman & Robert Blair, 2012. "Building institutions at the micro-level: Results from a field experiment in property dispute and conflict resolution," HiCN Working Papers 128, Households in Conflict Network.
  22. Christopher Blattman & Nathan Fiala & Sebastian Martinez, 2012. "Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1201, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.
  23. Samuel Bazzi, Christopher Blattman, 2011. "Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Price- Working Paper 274," Working Papers 274, Center for Global Development.
  24. Bernd Beber & Christopher Blattman, 2010. "The Industrial Organization of Rebellion: The Logic of Forced Labor and Child Soldiering," HiCN Working Papers 72, Households in Conflict Network.
  25. Blattman, Christopher & Miguel, Edward, 2009. "Civil War," Center for International and Development Economics Research, Working Paper Series qt90n356hs, Center for International and Development Economics Research, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley.
  26. Christopher Blattman, 2009. "Civil War: A Review of Fifty Years of Research," Working Papers id:2231, eSocialSciences.
  27. Jeannie Annan & Christopher Blattman & Dyan Mazurana & Khristopher Carlson, 2009. "Women and Girls at War: Wives , Mothers, and Fighters in the Lord s Resistance Army," HiCN Working Papers 63, Households in Conflict Network.
  28. Christopher Blattman & Edward Miguel, 2009. "Civil War: A Review of 50 Years of Research," Working Papers 166, Center for Global Development.
  29. Christopher Blattman, 2008. "From Violence to Voting: War and political participation in Uganda," Working Papers 138, Center for Global Development.
  30. Christopher Blattman, 2006. "The Consequences of Child Soldiering," HiCN Working Papers 22, Households in Conflict Network.
  31. Williamson, Jeffrey G. & Blattman, Christopher & ,, 2005. "The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change," CEPR Discussion Papers 5073, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  32. Christopher Blattman & Jason Hwang & Jeffrey G. Williamson, 2003. "The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938," NBER Working Papers 9940, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  33. Christopher Blattman & Michael A. Clemens & Jeffrey G. Williamson, 2003. "Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938," Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers 2010, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research.

Articles

  1. Michal Bauer & Christopher Blattman & Julie Chytilová & Joseph Henrich & Edward Miguel & Tamar Mitts, 2016. "Can War Foster Cooperation?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 30(3), pages 249-274, Summer.
  2. Blattman, Christopher & Jamison, Julian & Koroknay-Palicz, Tricia & Rodrigues, Katherine & Sheridan, Margaret, 2016. "Measuring the measurement error: A method to qualitatively validate survey data," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 120(C), pages 99-112.
  3. Christopher Blattman & Eric P. Green & Julian Jamison & M. Christian Lehmann & Jeannie Annan, 2016. "The Returns to Microenterprise Support among the Ultrapoor: A Field Experiment in Postwar Uganda," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 8(2), pages 35-64, April.
  4. Green, Eric P. & Blattman, Christopher & Jamison, Julian & Annan, Jeannie, 2015. "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)," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 177-188.
  5. Samuel Bazzi & Christopher Blattman, 2014. "Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 6(4), pages 1-38, October.
  6. Christopher Blattman & Nathan Fiala & Sebastian Martinez, 2014. "Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 129(2), pages 697-752.
  7. Beber, Bernd & Blattman, Christopher, 2013. "The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 67(1), pages 65-104, January.
  8. Jeannie Annan & Christopher Blattman & Dyan Mazurana & Khristopher Carlson, 2011. "Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 55(6), pages 877-908, December.
  9. Christopher Blattman & Jeannie Annan, 2010. "The Consequences of Child Soldiering," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 92(4), pages 882-898, November.
  10. Christopher Blattman & Edward Miguel, 2010. "Civil War," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 48(1), pages 3-57, March.
  11. Blattman, Christopher & Hwang, Jason & Williamson, Jeffrey G., 2007. "Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870-1939," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 156-179, January.

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  1. NEP-EXP: Experimental Economics (18) 2013-01-07 2015-05-30 2015-06-27 2015-07-04 2015-09-05 2016-05-14 2016-06-18 2016-07-02 2016-07-09 2016-07-16 2016-10-09 2016-10-09 2017-01-29 2017-10-29 2018-10-01 2019-05-06 2022-06-27 2023-02-13. Author is listed
  2. NEP-AFR: Africa (13) 2006-12-01 2008-05-05 2012-02-20 2012-04-03 2013-01-07 2015-05-30 2015-06-27 2015-07-04 2016-05-14 2016-10-09 2016-10-23 2017-01-29 2019-10-07. Author is listed
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (8) 2003-08-31 2006-12-01 2008-05-05 2009-05-02 2010-09-11 2012-02-20 2012-04-03 2015-07-04. Author is listed
  4. NEP-LMA: Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages (8) 2015-05-30 2015-06-27 2015-07-04 2016-06-18 2016-10-02 2016-10-23 2018-10-01 2019-05-06. Author is listed
  5. NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital (6) 2009-03-22 2009-05-02 2016-06-18 2016-07-02 2016-07-09 2016-07-16. Author is listed
  6. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (5) 2004-07-04 2005-06-14 2009-03-22 2009-05-02 2009-10-17. Author is listed
  7. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (5) 2015-05-30 2016-10-09 2017-10-29 2021-02-22 2023-02-13. Author is listed
  8. NEP-NEU: Neuroeconomics (5) 2015-05-30 2016-05-14 2016-10-09 2016-10-09 2022-06-27. Author is listed
  9. NEP-ENT: Entrepreneurship (4) 2015-07-04 2016-10-02 2016-10-23 2019-05-06
  10. NEP-EVO: Evolutionary Economics (3) 2016-06-18 2016-07-09 2016-07-16
  11. NEP-HEA: Health Economics (3) 2016-10-23 2018-10-01 2023-02-13
  12. NEP-IUE: Informal and Underground Economics (3) 2016-10-02 2016-10-23 2016-10-23
  13. NEP-LAB: Labour Economics (3) 2012-02-20 2022-06-27 2023-02-13
  14. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (3) 2008-05-05 2017-01-29 2019-10-07
  15. NEP-URE: Urban and Real Estate Economics (3) 2017-10-29 2022-02-28 2022-06-27
  16. NEP-BIG: Big Data (2) 2017-10-29 2019-07-15
  17. NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics (2) 2016-10-09 2022-06-27
  18. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (2) 2008-05-05 2019-10-07
  19. NEP-MFD: Microfinance (2) 2012-04-03 2015-07-04
  20. NEP-CMP: Computational Economics (1) 2019-07-15
  21. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory and Applications (1) 2009-10-17
  22. NEP-GER: German Papers (1) 2016-07-16
  23. NEP-INT: International Trade (1) 2005-06-14
  24. NEP-LAM: Central and South America (1) 2003-08-31
  25. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2021-02-22
  26. NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics (1) 2003-08-31
  27. NEP-SEA: South East Asia (1) 2019-07-15

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