Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy.

He is an economist and political scientist who studies poverty, violence and crime in developing countries. He has designed and evaluated strategies for tackling poverty, including cash transfers to the poorest. Much of his work is with the victims and perpetrators of crime and violence, testing the link between poverty and violence. His recent work looks at other sources of and solutions to violence. These solutions range from behavioral therapy to social norm change and local-level state building.

He has worked mainly in Colombia, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Chicago’s South Side. He chairs the Peace & Recovery sector at Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) and the Crime, Violence and Conflict initiative at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab (JPAL).

Chris BLATTMAN will present a paper at the next Departmental Seminar on the theme:

Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance (read Abstract, PDF 25,24 KB)

More about Chris BLATTMAN and his research

Date : Mon, 2020-03-02 14:45
Location : Department of Economics, 28 rue des Saints Pères - Room H 405

The next Departmental Seminar will host TBA on March 9th.