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Brett Carter is a third year graduate student in the Department of Government at Harvard University and an associate of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science. He received an A.M. in political economy from the University of Chicago and B.A.'s in political science and French from the Virginia Military Institute. Outside of the American academy, he was a Fulbright scholar in Senegal, taught at the University of Malawi, worked for a humanitarian NGO in northern Ethiopia, and consulted for USAID in Washington, Mali, and Congo (Kinshasa). His primary research interests concern the application of formal and quantitative methods to political violence, economic growth, and demographic change. During the 2008/2009 academic year Brett coordinated the IQSS Graduate Methods and Models Class, and during the 2009/2010 academic year he is the Government concentration advisor for Kirkland House and TF for "Why is Africa Poor?", taught by Robert Bates and James Robinson.