Research and Publications
Papers Under Review
Bchi, K., P. Makdissi, and Yazbeck M., A recentered influence function regression modeling approach to health concentration curves, Revise and Resubmit, American Journal of Health Economics.
Acharya A, Khalaf L, Voia M, and M.Yazbeck, Wensley D. Severity of Illness and the Duration of Intensive Care. HCEO Working Paper 2021-003, January 2021.
Yazbeck M., Xu H., Azocar F. Ettner, S. Spousal Peer Effect in Specialty Behavioural Health Service Use.
Beland L.P., Malak N. and Yazbeck M., Politics in the Delivery Room: The effect of Governor's Political Parties on Infant Health.
Makdissi, P. and Yazbeck M., Measuring the contribution of stratification and social class at birth to inequality of opportunity.
Khaled, M.A., P. Makdissi, D.S.P. Rao, and Yazbeck M., A unidimensional representation of multidimensional inequality, with an application to the Arab region.
Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and Yazbeck M., Monitoring poverty in a data deprived environment: The case of Lebanon.
Dain J., Kwak D.W., Tang K.K., and Yazbeck M. Spusal Mental Health Spillover: Do you feel what I feel, or what you see?
Published Papers
Byrne D., Kwak D., Tang KK., and M.Yazbeck (forthcoming), Spillover effects of Retirement, does Vulnerability matter? Economics and Human Biology.
Jung D., Kwak D., Tang KK., and M. Yazbeck (forthcoming), How do Job Conditions Amplify the Impact of Mental Health Shocks? Labor Economics.
Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri and M. Yazbeck (forthcoming), A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions, Journal of Econometrics.
Khaled, M. Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (forthcoming), On absolute socioeconomic health Inequality. European Journal of Health Economics.
Abu-Ismail, K., V. Gantner, P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2020), Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Metron, 78, 175-191. (Special issue A century of inequality measurement).
Khaled, M. Makdissi, P. Tabri, R. and M. Yazbeck (2018), A Framework for Testing the equality Between the Health Concentration Curve and the 45-Degree Line, Health Economics, 27, 887-896.
Khaled, M. Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck, (2018), Income-Related Health Transfers Principles and Orderings of Joint Distributions of Income and Health, Journal of Health Economics, 57, 315-331.
Makdissi, P and M.Yazbeck, (2017), Robust Ranking of Socioeconomic Health Inequality using a Categorical Variable, forthcoming in Health Economics, 26, 1132-1145.
Makdissi, P and M. Yazbeck (2016), Avoiding Blindness to Health Status in Health Achievement and Health Inequality Measurement, Social Science and Medicine Volume 171, 39-47.
Fortin, B. and M. Yazbeck, (2015), Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain, Journal of Health Economics, Vol 42, 125-138.
Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2015), On the Measurement of Plutonomy, Social Choice and Welfare, 44, 703-717.
Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2014), Measuring Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Presence of Multiple Categorical Information. Journal of Health Economics, 34, 84-95.
Makdisssi, P., D. Sylla and M. Yazbeck (2013), Decomposing Socioeconomic Health Inequality in Presence of Multiple Categorical Information, Economic Modelling, 35, 964-968.
Berenger, V., F. Bresson, P. Makdissi et M. Yazbeck (2013), Regional and Sectoral Distribution of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004, in Berenger, V. and F. Bresson (eds.), Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea, Series: Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, Springer; 109-141.
Bibi, S, P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2012), Equivalence Scales and Housing Deprivation Orderings: An Example Using Lebanese data, Applied Economics, Vol. 44, No. 7, 853-866.
Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2011), Assessing the Redistributive Impact of Higher Education Tuition Fees Reforms: The Case of Québec, Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 18, 143-147.
Kabbani, N. and M. Yazbeck (2005), The Role of Food Assistance in Helping Food Insecure Households Escape Hunger, Review of Agricultural Economics, 27 (3), 439-445.
Research Grants
SSHRC-Insight Development Grant: An economic evaluation of the health consequences of using assisted reproductive technologies using Australian and US databases (2023-2025).
IDRC-Grant Women RISE: Improving the pandemic responses to reduce adverse health effects on women workers in the export sector of Sri Lanka: A participatory study on the effectiveness of policies and regulations (2022-2024).
SSHRC-Insight Grant: Determinants of Health (2022-2025).
SHASTRI Covid-19 Pandemic Response Grant: Health, Wellbeing and household dynamics among women and Vulnerable Population in the time of COVID-19 (2020-2021).
SSHRC- Insight Development Grant :Contributions to the measurement of socioeconomic inequalities (2018-2022).
World Health Organisation Grant: Antimicrobial resistance interventions what works what doesn't (2016).
UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund: Investigating innovative health service redesign instigated by local Hospital and Health Service Boards and its impact on rural and remote communities (2015–2016).