Chris Blattman

Christopher "Chris" Blattman is an economist and political scientist working on international development and policy, as well as a blogger on international economics and politics.[1] He is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University,[2][3] a non-resident fellow with the Center for Global Development,[4] and leads the Crime and Violence Section of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab [5]

Education

Blattman received a BA in Economics from the University of Waterloo. He completed a Master's in Public Administration and International Development (MPA/ID) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Blattman was a resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in 2007-2008 and a faculty member at Yale University from 2008 to 2012 before moving to Columbia University in 2012, where he is an associate professor of international affairs and political science as of July 2014.[1] He blogs on his personal website[6] and for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.[7]

Research & Writing

Blattman has used field experiments to argue that poor and unemployed young people in low-income countries tend to invest cash in small enterprises and thus raise their incomes. He advocated for cash transfers to the poor in a 2014 New York Times op-ed[8] as well as a 2014 Foreign Affairs magazine article.[9]This work has also been covered by National Public Radio,[10] the New York Times,[11] Slate,[12] and the Financial Times,[13] among others.

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