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Laurens Cherchye

Laurens Cherchye

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
6446
World Ranking
5381
National Ranking
66

Laurens Cherchye publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurens Cherchye sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 250 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Laurens Cherchye D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Laurens Cherchye sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Laurens Cherchye is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Business, Management and Accounting. Their research spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Marketing, Management Science and Operations Research, and General Decision Sciences.

The main topics covered in Cherchye's work include Economic and Environmental Valuation, Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics, Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets, Efficiency Analysis Using DEA, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing, and Family Dynamics and Relationships.

Recent papers by Laurens Cherchye include:

  • A new year, a new you? Within-individual variation in food purchases (2020, European Economic Review)
  • Where did it go wrong? Marriage and divorce in Malawi (2021, Quantitative Economics)
  • A DEA-based approach to customer value analysis (2023, European Journal of Operational Research)

The frequent co-authors in Cherchye's research are:

  • Bram De Rock
  • Frédéric Vermeulen
  • Bart Capéau
  • Koen Decancq
  • André Decoster

The main publication venues where Cherchye's work has appeared include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Journal of Productivity Analysis
  • European Economic Review
  • Econometrica

Laurens Cherchye's research involves the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) techniques among other methodological approaches, particularly applied to efficiency analysis and customer value assessment. Their contributions extend to studies related to family dynamics and the intersection of gender and labor economics.

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to ‘Benefit of the Doubt’ Composite Indicators

    Laurens Cherchye;Willem Moesen;Nicky Rogge;Nicky Rogge;Tom Van Puyenbroeck;Tom Van Puyenbroeck

  • Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index

    L Cherchye;W Moesen;N Rogge;T Van Puyenbroeck

  • Married with children: A collective labor supply model with detailed time use and intrahousehold expenditure information

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Frederic Vermeulen

  • Legitimately Diverse, yet Comparable: On Synthesizing Social Inclusion Performance in the EU*

    Laurens Cherchye;Willem Moesen;Tom Van Puyenbroeck

  • Benchmarking Sustainable Development: A Synthetic Meta-index Approach

    Laurens Cherchye;Timo Kuosmanen

  • One market, one number? A composite indicator assessment of EU internal market dynamics☆

    Laurens Cherchye;C.A. Knox Lovell;Wim Moesen;Tom Van Puyenbroeck;Tom Van Puyenbroeck

  • The collective model of household consumption: a nonparametric characterization

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Frederic Vermeulen

  • On research efficiency: A micro-analysis of Dutch university research in Economics and Business Management

    L. Cherchye;P. Vanden Abeele

  • Opening the black box of intra-household decision-making: Theory and non-parametric empirical tests of general collective consumption models

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Frederic Vermeulen

  • Using data envelopment analysis to assess macroeconomic policy performance

    Laurens Cherchye

  • The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behaviour: Testing and sharing rule recovery

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Frederic Vermeulen

  • The law of one price in data envelopment analysis : Restricting weight flexibility across firms

    Timo Kuosmanen;Laurens Cherchye;Timo Sipiläinen

  • Efficiency and equity in private and public education: a nonparametric comparison

    Laurens Cherchye;Kristof De Witte;Kristof De Witte;Erwin Ooghe;Ides Nicaise

  • Sharing rule identification for general collective consumption models

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Arthur Lewbel;Frederic Vermeulen

  • Robust human development rankings

    Laurens Cherchye;Erwin Ooghe;Tom Van Puyenbroeck

  • Opening the "Black Box" of Efficiency Measurement: Input Allocation in Multioutput Settings

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Bart Dierynck;Filip Roodhooft

  • What Is the Economic Meaning of FDH? A Reply to Thrall

    Laurens Cherchye;Timo Kuosmanen;Thierry Post

  • Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index

    Laurens Cherchye;Wim Moesen;Nicky Rogge;Tom Van Puyenbroeck

  • Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Frederic Vermeulen

  • FDH Directional distance functions with an application to European Commercial banks

    Laurens Cherchye;Timo Kuosmanen;Thierry Post

  • Multi-output efficiency with good and bad outputs

    Laurens Cherchye;Bram De Rock;Barnabé Walheer

Frequent Co-Authors

Timo Kuosmanen
Timo Kuosmanen Aalto University
Frits C. R. Spieksma
Frits C. R. Spieksma Eindhoven University of Technology
Thierry Post
Thierry Post Nazarbayev University
Richard Blundell
Richard Blundell University College London
Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith University of Manchester
Martin Browning
Martin Browning University of Copenhagen
Yves Crama
Yves Crama University of Liège

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