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 racial stratification and social class at birth to inequality of opportunity.
Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2025), Monitoring poverty in a data-deprived environment: The case of Lebanon, Review of Income and Wealth, 71 (1), e12708. (ABDC journal ranking A)
Abi Younes, O., L. Dagher, I. Jamali, and P. Makdissi (2024), Quantifying turbulence: Introducing a multi-crises impact index for Lebanon, Social Indicators Research, 175, 1-24. (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*)
Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2016), Avoiding Blindness to Health Status in Health Achievement and Health Inequality Measurement, Social Science & Medicine, 171, 39-47.
Makdissi, P. and M. Yazbeck (2015), On the Measurement of Plutonomy, Social Choice and Welfare, 44, 703-717. (ABDC journal ranking A)
Greene, W.H., L. Khalaf, P. Makdissi, R.C. Sickles, M. Veall and M. Voia (Eds.) (2018), Productivity and Inequality, Springer.
Bchi, K., M. Khaled, P. Makdissi, and M. Yazbeck (2026), The dynamics of socioeconomic inequality of malnutrition in Egypt, in M. Mohieldin, M.M. Giuagale, and R. Ramadan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Egyptian Economy, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
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.
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.
Makdissi, P. (2025), AI, Digitalization, and Social Protection in the Arab Region: A Human Development Conversation, Arab Reform Initiative.
Makdissi, P. (2025), Freedom, agency, and material conditions: Human development in MENA, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2025), Happiness matters - but fleeting emotions make poor policy targets, The National.
Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2025), Trust in Lebanon’s public institutions: a challenge for the new leadership, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Rising influence: women’s empowerment within Arab households, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Poverty and plutonomy: measuring extreme bipolarisation in the Arab world, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
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. (French video version of this column: https://youtu.be/C1y39fuKjRQ?si=TI5CZkPBG18b8iUg)
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), Are fuel or food subsidies the right policy tools to reduce inequality? An evidence-based illustration for four Arab economies, Arab Food and Nutrition Security Blog, IFPRI. (Arabic version of this column: هل يعتبر الدعم الأداة السياسية السليمة للحد من عدم المساواة؟)
Makdissi, P. (2018), Subsidy reforms and social justice: lessons from Egypt, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.