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Luc Christiaensen

Luc Christiaensen

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
53
Citations
16300
World Ranking
1168
National Ranking
706

Overview

Luc Christiaensen is affiliated with the World Bank in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Social Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Sociology and Political Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Economics and Econometrics, Nutrition and Dietetics, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics focus on Child Nutrition and Water Access, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Agriculture and Rural Development Research, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations.

Among the recent papers authored by Luc Christiaensen are:

  • "Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food," 2020, Food Policy
  • "Rural Employment in Africa: Trends and Challenges," 2022, Annual Review of Resource Economics

Notably, Christiaensen has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Patrick Webb, Kate Schneider, William A. Masters, Joachim De Weerdt, and Ravi Kanbur.

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in certain venues, including Food Policy, Annual Review of Resource Economics, SSRN Electronic Journal, AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA), and World Development.

Luc Christiaensen has contributed extensively to book publications primarily with the World Bank. Major titles include:

  • "The Future of Work in Agriculture: Some Reflections," 2020
  • "Agriculture, Jobs, and Value Chains in Africa," 2020
  • "Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy," 2021
  • "When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development," 2021
  • "Just Coal Transition in Western Macedonia, Greece," 2020
  • "Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People's Perspectives from Silesia," 2022
  • "Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets," 2021
  • "Does Agricultural Intensification Pay?", 2023
  • "Rural Employment in Africa," 2022
  • "Towards a Just Coal Transition Labor Market Challenges and People's Perspectives from Wielkopolska," 2022
  • "How Do Migrants Fare in Africa's Urban Labor Markets?", 2025
  • "Jobs, Food and Greening: Exploring Implications of the Green Transition for Jobs in the Agri-food System," 2023

The body of work by Luc Christiaensen encompasses numerous aspects of agricultural development, labor market dynamics, and policy implications within agri-food systems. Their research also touches on nutrition, sustainability, and the social dimensions of rural and urban development.

Best Publications

  • Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Luc Christiaensen

  • Consumption risk, technology adoption, and poverty traps : evidence from Ethiopia

    Stefan Dercon;Luc Christiaensen;Luc Christiaensen

  • Natural disasters and growth - going beyond the averages

    Norman Loayza;Eduardo Olaberria;Jamele Rigolini;Luc Christiaensen

  • Natural Disasters and Growth Going beyond the Averages

    Norman V. Loayza;Eduardo Olaberría;Jamele Rigolini;Luc Christiaensen

  • The (Evolving) Role of Agriculture in Poverty Reduction: An Empirical Perspective

    Luc Christiaensen;Lionel Demery;Jesper Kuhl

  • Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation: the role of the missing middle

    Luc J.M. Christiaensen;Yasuyuki Todo

  • Poverty Measurement and Analysis

    Luc Christiaensen;Christopher Scott;Quentin Wodon

  • Poverty in a Rising Africa

    Kathleen G. Beegle;Luc Christiaensen;Andrew L. Dabalen;Isis Gaddis

  • Toward an understanding of household vulnerability in rural Kenya

    Luc J. Christiaensen;Kalanidhi Subbarao

  • Validity of rapid estimates of household wealth and income for health surveys in rural Africa

    Saul Sutkover Morris;Calogero Carletto;John Hoddinott;Luc J.M. Christiaensen

  • Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia: Can Maternal Knowledge Augment the Role of Income?*

    Luc Christiaensen;Harold Alderman

  • Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia

    Takashi Yamano;Harold Alderman;Luc J.M. Christiaensen

  • Down to Earth: Agriculture and Poverty Reduction in Africa

    Luc J. Christiaensen;Lionel Demery

  • Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and … urban push?

    Remi Camille Jedwab;Luc Christiaensen;Marina Gindelsky

  • Urbanization and Poverty Reduction – The Role of Rural Diversification and Secondary Towns

    Luc Christiaensen;Joachim De Weerdt;Yasuyuki Todo

  • How much of the labor in African agriculture is provided by women

    Amparo Palacios-Lopez;Luc Christiaensen;Talip Kilic

  • Urbanization and poverty reduction - the role of rural diversification and secondary towns

    Luc Christiaensen;Joachim De Weerdt;Yasuyuki Todo

  • Poverty reduction during the rural-urban transformation - The role of the missing middle

    Luc J.M. Christiaensen;Yasuyuki Todo

  • Who is vouching for the input voucher ? decentralized targeting and elite capture in Tanzania

    Lei Pan;Luc Christiaensen

  • Who is vouching for the input voucher ? decentralized targeting and elite capture in Tanzania

    Lei Pan;Luc J.M. Christiaensen

  • Tracking poverty over time in the absence of comparable consumption data

    David Stifel;Luc Christiaensen

  • Post-harvest loss in Sub-Saharan Africa -- what do farmers say ?

    Jonathan Kaminski;Luc Christiaensen

  • On Measuring Household Food Vulnerability: Case Evidence from Northern Mali

    Luc J.M. Christiaensen;Richard N. Boisvert

  • On the Structural Transformation of Rural Africa

    Christopher B. Barrett;Luc Christiaensen;Megan Britney Sheahan;Abebe Shimeles

  • Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper.

    Takashi Yamano;Harold Alderman;Luc Christiaensen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University
Christopher L. Gilbert
Christopher L. Gilbert Johns Hopkins University
Christopher A. Scott
Christopher A. Scott University of Arizona
Quentin Wodon
Quentin Wodon World Bank
John Hoddinott
John Hoddinott Cornell University
William A. Masters
William A. Masters Tufts University
Patrick Webb
Patrick Webb Tufts University
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
Peter Lanjouw
Peter Lanjouw Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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