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Phone: +1 (510) 207.6352
E-mail: blattman (at) gmail (dot) com
Skype: chrisblattman
Where I work:
Yale
University, Assistant
Professor of Political Science and Economics, beginning 2008
Center for Global
Development, Visiting Fellow, 2007–08
What I research:
My research agenda focuses on using field
work, original data, and field experiments to tackle the following lines of
inquiry:
The causes and consequences of political
violence and instability;
The determinants of political development and
participation in poor countries;
Post-conflict economic reconstruction,
political redevelopment, and reintegration of ex-combatants; and
The evaluation of what development policies
work, for whom, and why.
Working Papers:
From Violence to Voting: War
and Political Participation in Uganda
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
Works in
Progress:
The Causes of Child Soldiering: Theory and
Evidence from Uganda
Commodities and Conflict or Trade Shocks don’t Cause Civil Wars
The Economics of Civil War (forthcoming in JEL, with Ted Miguel)
Post-Combat: The Determinants of Reintegration
Published Research Papers:
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.
Replication dataset and STATA
8 do file
Policy and Other
Publications:
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.
Enhancing the Competitiveness of Kenya’s
Manufacturing Sector: The Role of the Investment Climate, with
Vijaya Ramachandran et. al., The World Bank, 2005.
Assessing the Need and Potential of Community
Networking for Development in Rural India, joint with R. Roman and
R.T. Jensen, The Information Society
19(5), 2003.
Evaluation of Research Methodology and Survey
Design Strategies in Rural Information & Communication Technology
Projects, with R. Roman, Journal of
Development Communications, 2002.
What else I do:
Co-Principal Investigator, Survey for War Affected Youth in Northern Uganda
Consultant, The World Bank,
Europe and Central Asia Region, Kosovo Youth
Social Development Programs
Consultant, The World Bank,
Human Development Network, Uganda
Post-Conflict Development Programs
Survey
of War Affected Youth (SWAY):
Northern Uganda
represents one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters, with tens of
thousands of youth forcibly recruited into armed forces and hundreds of
thousands more economically and socially dislocated.
Visit our Project Page for
information on:
The recently completed survey of boys and men;
The ongoing study of women and girls; and
Randomized evaluations of post-conflict
programs being planned.
Read the Phase 1 Final Report
prepared for UNICEF Uganda
Donate to our Educational & Employment
Trust to help us raise funds for school fees for incredible war
affected youth in Uganda’s
north.
My data:
Survey for War Affected
Youth
Household survey
Phase 1 (Males) Individual survey
Phase 2 (Females) Individual survey (available
soon)
Contact me for data access
Primary commodity prices, country commodity
price indices, and country commodity export weights by product, Africa &
Latin America, 1957-2003
Contact me for data access
Country-level primary commodity price indices
(terms of trade) and commodity weights, 35 countries, 1865-1950
The BHW04 Commodity Price Index
(CSV file)
The BHW04 Commodity Price Index Source Data
(zipped Excel file)
A full data appendix can be found in NBER Working Paper 10600. If you use this data, please
reference: Christopher Blattman,
Jason Hwang and Jeffrey G. Williamson, “The Impact of the Terms of Trade on
Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular
Change,” NBER WP10600, National Bureau
of Economic Research, 2004.
Additional data from Blattman, Hwang and
Williamson (2004) can be obtained from Jeff Williamson.
Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI)
Project baseline survey and data for Blattman, Roman and Jensen (2003),
“Assessing the Need and Potential of Community Networking for Development in
Rural India”
Household Survey and Dataset (zipped excel files)
Community Survey and Dataset (zipped excel files)
STATA do file for Blattman,
Roman and Jensen (2003)
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