All Stories

  1. Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices †

    Article • American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, October 2014, American Economic Association

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  2. How to Promote Order and Property Rights under Weak Rule of Law? An Experiment in Changing Dispute Resolution Behavior through Community Education

    Article • American Political Science Review, February 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  3. The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion

    Article • International Organization, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  4. Children and War: How “Soft” Research Can Answer the Hard Questions in Political Science

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, May 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  5. The Consequences of Child Soldiering

    Article • The Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2010, The MIT Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  6. Civil War

    Article • Journal of Economic Literature, March 2010, American Economic Association

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  7. From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda

    Article • American Political Science Review, May 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  8. From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda

    Article • American Political Science Review, May 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  9. Civil War

    Article • March 2009, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  10. Child combatants in northern Uganda

    Article • December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  11. Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870–1939

    Article • Journal of Development Economics, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  12. The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change

    Article • July 2004, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  13. Assessing the Need and Potential of Community Networking for Development in Rural India Special Issue: ICTs and Community Networking

    Article • The Information Society, November 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  14. The Terms of Trade and Economic Growth in the Periphery 1870-1938

    Article • September 2003, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  15. Predicting Local Violence

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  16. Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  17. Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Youth in a Fragile State

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  18. Building Institutions at the Micro-Level: Results from a Field Experiment in Property Dispute and Conflict Resolution

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  19. Credit Constraints, Occupational Choice, and the Process of Development: Long Run Evidence from Cash Transfers in Uganda

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  20. Who Protected and Why? Tariffs the World Around 1870-1938

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  21. Measuring the Measurement Error: A Method to Qualitatively Validate Sensitive Survey Data

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  22. The Returns to Cash and Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  23. How to Promote Order and Property Rights Under Weak Rule of Law? An Experiment in Changing Dispute Resolution Behavior Through Community Education

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  24. Civil War

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  25. From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  26. Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  27. Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman

  28. The Impact of the Terms of Trade on Economic Development in the Periphery, 1870-1939: Volatility and Secular Change

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Christopher Blattman