Macroeconomic savings from reducing mortality from non-communicable diseases in South-West Asia and North Africa, Discover Public Health, 22:405, 2025.
Global Health 2050: the path to halving premature mortality by 2050 (with co-authors), The Lancet, 404:10462, 1561-1614, October 19, 2024.
Cost-benefit analysis of a multicomponent breastfeeding promotion and support intervention in a developing country (with Maya Basbous, Mona Nabulsi, Nadine Yehya and Hani Tamim), PLoS One, July 19, 2024.
Inequalities in wellbeing in Lebanese children and different refugee subpopulations: a multidimensional child deprivation analysis (with Zeina Jamaluddine, Gloria Safadi, Alexandra Irani, Jad Chaaban, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Alban Thomas and Hala Ghattas), Child Indicators Research, 16, 2055-2073, June 2023.
The determinants of sustained adherence to COVID-19 preventive measures among older Syrian refugees in Lebanon (with Stephen McCall, Noura El Salibi, Berthe Abi Zeid, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Hala Ghattas, Marwan Alawieh, Zeinab Ramadan), PLoS One, June 22, 2023.
The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugees in Lebanon: evidence from a multidimensional regression discontinuity design (with Wael Moussa, Alexandra Irani, Rima Al Mokdad, Zeina Jamaluddine, Jad Chaaban, Hala Ghattas), Journal of Development Economics, March 2022.
The impact of cash transfers on Syrian refugee children in Lebanon (with Wael Moussa, Alexandra Irani, Zeina Jamaluddine, Rima Al-Mokdad, Hala Ghattas, Jad Chaaban), World Development, Volume 150, February 2022.
A multidimensional measure of wellbeing among youth: a cross-sectional study of Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon (with Alexandra Irani, Jad Chaaban and Rima Al-Mokdad), abstract published in The Lancet, Volume 398, Special Issue 1, S47, July 01, 2021.
Child deprivation among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Palestinian refugees from Syria in Lebanon: a cross-sectional analysis of co-occurrence of deprivation indicators (with Zeina Jamaluddine, Alexandra Irani, Hala Ghattas, Sawsan Abdulrahim, Khalil El-Asmar and Jad Chaaban), abstract published in The Lancet, Volume 398, Special Issue 1, S32, July 01, 2021.
A Multi-Dimensional Measure of Well-being among Youth: The Case of Palestinian Refugee Youth in Lebanon (with Jad Chaaban, Alexandra Irani and Rima Al-Mokdad), Social Indicators Research, November 2020.
The impact of dosage variability of multi-purpose cash assistance on food security in Syrian refugees in Lebanon (with Zeina Jamaluddine, Alexandra Irani, Hala Ghattas, Rima Al Mokdad, Jad Chaaban and Wael Moussa), abstract in Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 4, Issue supplement 2, p. 846, June 2020.
Popular grievances and perceptions of socioeconomic conditions in the Arab region prior to the uprisings (with Melani Cammett), Middle East Development Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, 64-96, June 2018.
Equity impacts of price policies to promote healthy behaviours (with Franco Sassi, Annalisa Belloni, Mark Suhrcke, Andrew Mirelman, Rachel Nugent and Sukumar Vellakal), The Lancet, Volume 391, No. 10134, 2059–2070, 19 May 2018.
Poverty, food insecurity and health of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and recently displaced from Syria to Lebanon: findings from the 2015 socioeconomic survey (with Hala Ghattas, Jad Chaaban, Alexandra Irani, Tala Ismail and Lara Batlouni), abstract published in The Lancet, Volume 391, Supplement 1, S-11, 21 February 2018.
The health, financial and distributional consequences of an increase in the tobacco excise tax on smokers in Lebanon: an extended cost effectiveness analysis (with Stephane Verguet and Elizabeth Brouwer), Social Science and Medicine, Volume 170, 161-169, December 2016.
The relationship between camp-level relative deprivation and self-rated health among Palestinian refugee women in Lebanon (with Sawsan Abdulrahim), Social Science and Medicine-Population Health, volume 2, 317-326, December 2016.
Food insufficiency and food insecurity as risk factors for physical disability among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: evidence from an observational study (with Hala Ghattas), Disability and Health Journal, Volume 9, Issue 4, 655-662, 2016.
Who’s been left behind? Why sustainable development goals fail the Arab world (with Abbas El-Zein, Jocelyn DeJong, Philippe Fargues, Adam Hanieh and Helen Lackner), viewpoint in The Lancet, Volume 388, No. 10040, 207-210, July 2016.
Income inequality and the composition of public debt, Journal of Economic Studies, Volume 42, Issue 5, 821-837, 2015.
The effect of taxation on tobacco consumption and public revenues in Lebanon (with Rima Nakkash, Jad Chaaban and Hala Alaouie) Tobacco Control, Volume 24, 77-81, 2015.
The economics of tobacco in Lebanon: an estimation of the social costs of tobacco consumption (with Jad Chaaban and Nadia Naamani) in Substance Use and Misuse, Volume 49, Issue 6, 735-742, 2014.
Disability and food insufficiency in the Palestinian refugee population in Lebanon: a household survey (with Nuha Nuwayri-Salti and Hala Ghattas), abstract published in The Lancet, Volume 382, Special Issue S31, 5 December 2013.
Poverty and the livelihoods of UNHCR registered refugees in Lebanon (with Jad Chaaban, Karin Seyfert and Gheed El Makkaoui) Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 1, 24-49, 2013.
The political economy of attracting public funds: the case of Lebanon (with Jad Chaaban) International Journal of Development and Conflict, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2012.
Natural-resource wealth: elbow grease or fuel for poverty Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Volume 167, Number 3, 536-556, 2011.
The role of sectarianism in the allocation of public expenditure in post-war Lebanon (with Jad Chaaban) International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volume 42, Issue 4, 637-655, 2010.
On the poverty and equity implications of a rise in value added tax: a microsimulation for Lebanon (with Jad Chaaban) Middle East Development Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2010.
Health equity in Lebanon: a microeconomic analysis (with Jad Chaaban and Firas Raad) International Journal of Equity in Health, Volume 9, Issue 11, 2010.
Relative deprivation and mortality in South Africa Social Science and Medicine, Volume 70, Issue 5, 720-728, 2010.