Dr Myra Yazbeck
Honorary Research Fellow
+61 7 336 56609
Book Chapter
Bérenger, Valérie, Bresson, Florent, Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2013). Regional and sectoral distributions of poverty in Lebanon, 2004. In Valerie Berenger, Florent Bresson and Jacques Silber (Ed.), Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea (pp. 109-141) New York, NY, United States: Springer New York. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-5263-8
Journal Articles
Khaled, Mohamad A., Makdissi, Paul, Tabri, Rami V. and Yazbeck, Myra (2018) A framework for testing the equality between the health concentration curve and the 45-degree line. Health Economics, 27 5: 887-896. doi:10.1002/hec.3637
Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2017) Robust rankings of socioeconomic health inequality using a categorical variable. Health Economics, 26 9: 1132-1145. doi:10.1002/hec.3499
Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2016) Avoiding blindness to health status in health achievement and health inequality measurement. Social Science and Medicine, 171 39-47. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.027
Fortin, Bernard and Yazbeck, Myra (2015) Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain. Journal of Health Economics, 42 125-138. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2015.03.005
Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2014) On the measurement of plutonomy. Social Choice and Welfare, 44 4: 703-717. doi:10.1007/s00355-014-0857-0
Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2014) Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information. Journal of Health Economics, 34 1: 84-95. doi:10.1016/j.jhealeco.2013.11.008
Makdissi, Paul, Sylla, Daouda and Yazbeck, Myra (2013) Decomposing health achievement and socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information. Economic Modelling, 35 964-968. doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2013.08.016
Bibi, Sami, Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2011) Equivalence scales and housing deprivation orderings: an example using Lebanese data. Applied Economics, 44 7: 853-866. doi:10.1080/00036846.2010.524631
Yazbeck, Myra and Makdissi, Paul (2011) Assessing the redistributive impact of higher education tuition fees reforms: The case of Quebec. Applied Economics Letters, 18 2: 143-147. doi:10.1080/13504850903508325
Yazbeck, Myra and Kabbani, Nader (2005) The role of food assistance in helping food insecure households escape hunger. Review of Agricultural Economics, 27 3: 439-445. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9353.2005.00241.x
Working Paper
Yazbeck, Myra and Makdissi, Paul (2014). Robust Wagtaff Ordering of Distributions of Self-Reported Health Status. School of Economics Discussion Paper 533, School of Economics, University of Queensland.