Papers submitted for publication

Bchi, K., P. Makdissi, and M. Yazbeck, A modeling approach to decomposing changes in health concentration curves.

Khaled, M.A., P. Makdissi, D.S.P. Rao, and M. Yazbeck,  A Unidimensional Representation of Multidimensional Inequality: An Analysis of Inequalities in the Arab Region.

Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck, Measuring the contribution of stratification and social class at birth to inequality of opportunity.

Papers in refereed journals in the last eight years

There is no research assessment exercise in Canada. Journal rankings are from the 2022 ABDC Journal Quality List used in the context of Australia Research Council (ARC) evaluations and grant making. 

Last eight years:  4 Category A* publications and 3 Category A publications.

Abi Younes, O., L. Dagher,  I. Jamali, and P. Makdissi (2024), Quantifying turbulence: Introducing a multi-crises impact index for Lebanon, forthcoming in Social Indicators Research. (ABDC journal ranking A)

Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2024), Monitoring poverty in a data-deprived environment: The case of Lebanon, forthcoming in Review of Income and Wealth. (ABDC journal ranking A)

Khaled, M., P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2023), On absolute socioeconomic health inequality,  European Journal of Health Economics, 24, 5-25. (ABDC journal ranking A)

Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri and M. Yazbeck (2022), A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions, Journal of Econometrics, 228, 342-358.  (ABDC journal ranking A*)

Makdissi, P. and M. Seif Edine (2020), Is the elimination of food subsidies the right policy to address Lebanon’s public finance crisis?, Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 16(2), 20200016. (ABDC journal ranking C)

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) (ABDC journal ranking C)

Khaled, M., P. Makdissi, R. Tabri 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. (ABDC journal ranking A*)

Khaled, M., P. Makdissi 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. (ABDC journal ranking A*)

Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2017), Robust Rankings of Socioeconomic Health Inequality Using a Categorical Variable, Health Economics, 26, 1132-1145. (ABDC journal ranking A*)

Edited book in the last eight years

Greene, W.H., L. Khalaf, P. Makdissi, R.C. Sickles, M. Veall and M. Voia (Eds.) (2018), Productivity and Inequality, Springer.

Refereed book chapters in the last eight years

Khaled, M., P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2023), Child malnutrition, in J. Silber (Ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar, 273-282.

Makdissi, P. and Q. Wodon (2018), Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations, in W.H. Greene, L. Khalaf, P. Makdissi, R.C. Sickles, M. Veall and M.C. Voia (eds.), Productivity and Inequality, Springer, 157-167.

Reports in the last eight years

Makdissi, P. (2021), Nowcasting multidimensional poverty in the occupied Palestinian territory, Information Material, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, E/ESCWA/CL3.SEP/2021/TP.7

Makdissi, P. (2021), A flexible modeling approach to nowcasting and forecasting Arab multidimensional poverty, Information Material, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, E/ESCWA/CL3.SEP/2021/TP.1

ESCWA and ERF (2019), Rethinking Inequality in Arab Countries, Report E/ESCWA/EDID/2019/2. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (Lead authors of the report: Khalid Abu-Ismail, Paul Makdissi, and Oussama Safa).

Makdissi, P. and D. Sopchokchai (2019), Socio-Economic Inequalities in Housing Issues: Measurement and Beyond, Housing Reseach Report 69573, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

Policy Commentary and Analysis on the Arab Region in the last eight years

Makdissi, P. (2024), Shifting public trust in governments across the Arab world,  The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Makdissi, P. (2024), Freedom: the missing piece in analysis of multidimensional wellbeing, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Makdissi, P. (2024), Child stunting in Tunisia: an alarming rise, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Makdissi, P. (2024), Happiness in the Arab world: should we be concerned?, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2023), Measuring poverty in Lebanon in the time of economic collapse, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri, and M. Yazbeck (2022), Élections au Liban : est-ce la fin pour les dirigeants kleptocrates qui ont mis le pays en faillite ?, La Conversation.  

Makdissi, P. and M. Seif Edine (2020), Tackling Lebanon’s fiscal crisis: should food subsidies be eliminated?, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Abu-Ismail, K., P. Makdissi, and O. Safa (2019), Arab countries are caught in an inequality trap, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.

Makdissi, P. (2018), Subsidy reforms and social justice: lessons from Egypt, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.