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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 End of Seasonality? New Insights from Sub-Saharan Africa
TL;DR: In this paper, the extent of seasonality in African livelihoods was revisited through econometric analysis of monthly food price series across 100 locations in three countries during 2000-12, and it was shown that seasonal movements in maize wholesale prices explain 20 to 40 percent of their monthly volatility.
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Migrants, markets and mayors: rising above the employment challenge in africa’s secondary cities a brief
TL;DR: Christiaensen et al. as mentioned in this paper found that migrants, being younger, better educated and/or complementary to the resident labor force, usually strengthen the urban labor force in secondary cities, and that labor market outcomes for migrants are at least as good as those for residents.
Journal Article
The World Bank economic review 17 (1)
Abena D. Oduro,Catherine L. Mann,Ishac Diwan,Stefan Dercon,Nancy Birdsall,Lionel Demery,Tsunehiro Otsuki,Marcel Fafchamps,Jam Willem Gunning,Albert Zeufack,Andres Gomez-Lobo,L. Alan Winters,Stefano Paternostro,Francis Teal,Luc Christiaensen,Arne Bigsten,Cathy Pattillo,Måns Söderbom,Dante Contreras,Paul Collier,Bernard Gauthier,Remco Oostendorp,John Wilson,Stijn Claessens +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, Bertrand et al. investigated the relationship between the old age pension and intra-household allocation in South Africa, and found that the distribution of benefits on the margin of the marginal benefit incidence varied with the age of the population.
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La pauvreté dans une Afrique en essor
TL;DR: The first part of a two-part volume on poverty in Africa as mentioned in this paper examines progress over the past two decades along both monetary and non-monetary dimensions of poverty, assessing progress in education and health, the extent to which people are free from violence, and the joint occurrence of various types of deprivation.