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Senior Researcher

Ph.D. Researcher

Senior Researcher

Ph.D. Researcher

Professor

Liesbeth Colen

Professor

Additional roles:
Speaker of SIA Master (Sustainable International Agriculture)

Teaching:
Socioeconomic of Rural Development and Food Security; Food Systems and Healthy Diets; Topics in Rural Development Economics; Introduction to Choice Experiments in Food Economics; Agriculture, Nutrition and Sustainable Food Systems

Publications:

Englberger, L., Colen, L. & Rommel, J. (2025) Farmers' attitudes towards economic experimentation, Q Open (forthcoming)

Di Marcantonio, F., Havari, E., Colen, L., & Ciaian, P. (2022). Do producer organizations improve trading practices and negotiation power for dairy farms? Evidence from selected EU countries. Agricultural Economics, 53(S1), 121-137.

Adewopo, J. B., Solano-Hermosilla, G., Colen, L., & Micale, F. (2021). Using crowd-sourced data for real-time monitoring of food prices during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from a pilot project in northern Nigeria. Global Food Security, 29, 100523.

Mary, S, Shaw, K, Colen, L, Gomez Y Paloma, S (2020). Does agricultural aid reduce child stunting? World Development 130: 104951

Cockx, L, Colen, L, de Weerdt, J (2018) From Corn to Popcorn? Urbanization and food consumption in Sub-Sahara Africa: evidence from rural-urban migrants in Tanzania, World Development 110: 140-159

Colen, L, Melo P, Abdul-Salam Y, Roberts D, Mary S, Gomez Y Paloma S (2018) Income elasticities for food, calories and nutrients across Africa: A meta-analysis, Food Policy 77, 116-132.

Colen, L, Persyn, D, Guariso, A (2016). Bilateral Investment Treaties and FDI: Does the Sector Matter? World Development 83: 193-206.

Colen, L, Maertens, M, Swinnen, J (2012). Private standards, trade and poverty: GlobalGAP and horticultural employment in Senegal. The World Economy 35 (8): 1073-1088.

Maertens, M, Colen, L, Swinnen, J (2011). Globalization and poverty in Senegal: A Worst Case Scenario? European Review of Agricultural Economics 38 (1): 31-54.

Colen, L, Maertens, M, Swinnen, J (2009). Foreign direct investment as an engine for economic growth and human development: A review of the arguments and empirical evidence. Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 3 (2): 177-227.

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Research Area Agriculture and Rural Development, Gender and Female Empowerment, Micro Development

Job Market Candidate no

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, RTG Sustainable Food Systems

Affiliation status Currently affiliated

Regional Focus South Asia/India, Sub-Saharan Africa

Chair Nutrition and Agriculture

Professor

Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel

Professor

Teaching:
Agricultural Policy Analysis and Market Integration and Price Transmission

Additional Affiliations:
Member of the Göttingen University Senate; Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Agricultural Economists

Publications:
1) von Cramon-Taubadel, S. (2022) Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – Implications for Grain Markets and Food Security. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, doi:10.30430/71.2022.5.Apol
2) Purushotham, A., Mittal, N., Ashwini, B.C., Umesh, K.B. and Vollmer, S. (2022). .A Quantile regression analysis of dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes among children and women in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore, India. Food Policy, 107 (2022), doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102216.
3) Steinhübel, L. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. (2021). Somewhere in between Towns, Markets and Jobs – Agricultural Intensification in the Rural-Urban Interface. The Journal of Development Studies 57(4): 669-694.
4) von Cramon-Taubadel, S. and Goodwin, B. (2021). Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets. Annual Review of Resource Economics 13(1): 65-84.
5) Cumming, G.S. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. (2018). Linking economic growth pathways and environmental sustainability by understanding development as alternate social–ecological regimes. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807026115.
6) Kouyaté, C. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. (2016). Distance and Border Effects on Price Transmission: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Agricultural Economics 67: 255-271.
7) Cumming, G.S., Buerkert, A., Hoffmann, E.M., Schlecht, E., von Cramon-Taubadel, S. and Tscharntke, T. (2014). Agricultural transitions and urbanization: implications for ecosystem services. Nature 515(7525): 50-57.
8) Greb, F., von Cramon-Taubadel, S., Krivobokova, T. and Munk, A. (2013). The Estimation of Threshold Models in Price Transmission Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(4):900-916.
9) Stephens, E., Mabaya, E., von Cramon-Taubadel, S. and Barrett, C.B. (2012). Spatial price adjustment with and without trade. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 74(3): 453-469.
10) Meyer, J. and von Cramon-Taubadel, S. (2004). Asymmetric Price Transmission: A Survey. Journal of Agricultural Economics 55-3: 581-611.

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Research Area Agriculture and Rural Development, Trade and Investment

Job Market Candidate no

Affiliation Campus Centre of Biodiversity and Sustainable Land Use (CBL)

Affiliation status Currently affiliated

Regional Focus Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Chair Agricultural Policy

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Julie Perng

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Publications:

Sato, R.; Jamison, J.; McGee, K.; Oseni, G.; Perng, J.; Tanaka, T., 2022. The relationships between adverse life events, depression, economic activities, and human capital investment in Nigeria. Medicine, Conflict and Survival, DOI: 1080/13623699.2022.2095963

Relevant Papers and Reports

Lebedinski, L,; Carneiro, P.; Arnold Urzua, T.; Perng, J.; Munoz Boudet, A.M.; Herrera Sosa, K. 2024. Experimental Impacts of a Virtual Parenting Program with Mothers and Fathers. IZA Discussion Papers. Link.

Arnold Urzua, T.; Carneiro, P.; Herrera Sosa, K.; Lebedinski, L.; Munoz Boudet, A.M.; Perng, J. 2022. Can a (virtual) parenting program in Serbia support early childhood education and care? Link.

The World Bank (I was a contributor), 2022. Sri Lanka Development Update: Protecting the Poor and Vulnerable in a Time of Crisis. Accessible here.

Lain, J., Perng, J., Vishwanath, T., Azad, M.A., Siwatu, G.O., Palacios-Lopez, A.; McGee, K., Amankwah, A., Contreras Gonzalez, I. 2020. COVID-19 from the ground up: What the crisis means for Nigerians. Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Nigeria. Report.

Boudet, A.M.M.; Moscoe, E.; Perng, J. 2020. Behavioral sciences to protect human capital investments during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Brief.

Cho, Y.; Perng, J.; Rahman, T., Shimul, S., 2019. Social Workers for Local Service Delivery for Social Protection. World Bank Report. Link.

Farfan, G.; McGee, Kevin; Perng, J.; Vakis, R. 2019. Poverty Measurement in the Era of Food Away from Home: Testing Alternative Approaches in Vietnam. World Bank Policy: No. 8692.

Hernandez, M.; Karver, J.; Negre, M., Perng, J. 2019. Promoting Tax Compliance in Kosovowith Behavioral Insights. World Bank Group brief.

Dizon, F.; Ahmed, M.; Nayar, D.; Hoque, N.; Joshi, V.; Mustafiz, M.; Naher, F.; Perng, J.; Rahman, A; Waid, J.; Wang, Z., 2019. Food for improved nutrition in Bangladesh. (Link.)

Jamison, J.; McGee, K.; Oseni, G.; Perng, J.; Sato, R.; Tanaka, T.; Vakis, R. 2018. The Relationship between Conflicts, Economic Shocks, and Death with Depression, Economic Activities, and Human Capital Investment in Nigeria. World Bank Policy: No. 8685.

Rankin, K.; Jarvis-Thiebault, J.; Pfeifer, N.; Engelbert, M.; Perng, J.; Yoon S.; Heard, A. (2016). Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: An Evidence Gap Map. Link.

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Research Area Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Health and Population, Labor - Employment - Migration, Micro Development, Policy Evaluation, Poverty and Inequality, Trade and Investment

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