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Luc Christiaensen
Researcher at World Bank
Publications - 173
Citations - 9141
Luc Christiaensen is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 163 publications receiving 8055 citations. Previous affiliations of Luc Christiaensen include World Bank Group & Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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The World Bank economic review 21 (2)
David Roodman,Xiaobo Zhang,Kong-Yam Tan,Patrick M. Emerson,André Portela Souza,David Stifel,Luc Christiaensen,Jaime de Melo,Riccardo Faini,Frédéric Docquier,Olivier Lohest,Abdeslam Marfouk,Dean Yang,HwaJung Choi,Michel Reine,Hillel Rapoport +15 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss migration, remittances, and the brain drain: a symposium in memory of Riccardo Faini -an introduction; by Jaime de Melo.
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Consumption Subaggregates Should Not Be Used to Measure Poverty
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Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed bounds on the cost, affordability, and seasonal variation of least-cost diets for whole households, illustrated with the example of Malawi, and showed that when meals are shared, ignoring demographic diversity within households greatly underestimates the affordability of adequate diets.
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Price Seasonality in Africa: Measurement and Extent
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically measured seasonal price gaps at 193 markets for 13 food commodities in seven African countries and found that seasonality varies substantially across market places, but maize is the only crop in which there are important systematic country effects.
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Family Planning and Fertility: Estimating Program Effects Using Cross-Sectional Data
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the effects of family planning in Ethiopia using a novel set of instruments to control for potential non-random program placement, based on ordinal rankings of area characteristics, motivated by competition between areas for resources.