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Christopher Blattman
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 91
Citations - 6537
Christopher Blattman is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Earnings & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 87 publications receiving 5571 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher Blattman include University of California, Berkeley & Columbia University.
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From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence for a link between war, violence and increased individual political participation and leadership among former combatants and victims of violence, and use this link to understand the deeper determinants of individual political behavior.
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From Violence to Voting: War and Political Participation in Uganda
TL;DR: This article found evidence for a link from past violence to increased political engagement among ex-combatants in northern Uganda, where rebel recruitment generated quasiexperimental variation in who was conscripted by abduction.
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The Consequences of Child Soldiering
TL;DR: This article examined the case of Uganda, where rebel recruitment methods provided exogenous variation in conscription and found that schooling falls by nearly a year, skilled employment halves, and earnings drop by a third.
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Can War Foster Cooperation
Michal Bauer,Michal Bauer,Christopher Blattman,Christopher Blattman,Julie Chytilová,Joseph Henrich,Edward Miguel,Edward Miguel,Tamar Mitts +8 more
TL;DR: In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior as discussed by the authors.
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Winners and losers in the commodity lottery: The impact of terms of trade growth and volatility in the Periphery 1870–1939
TL;DR: This paper found that volatility was much more important for growth than was secular change and accounts for a substantial degree of the divergence in incomes within the sample of small, commodity-dependent 'Periphery' nations as well as underperformance of the Periphery as a whole relative to such nations as the US and Western Europe, or 'Core'.