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Dr Myra Yazbeck

Honorary Associate Professor
+61 7 336 56609
m.yazbeck@uq.edu.au
Dr Myra Yazbeck

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Publications

Book Chapters (2)
Journal Articles (16)
Working Paper (1)

Book Chapters

Khaled, Mohamad A., Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2023). Child malnutrition. Research handbook on measuring poverty and deprivation. (pp. 273-282) edited by Jacques Silber. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781800883451.00038
Bérenger, Valérie, Bresson, Florent, Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2013). Regional and sectoral distributions of poverty in Lebanon, 2004. Poverty and Social Exclusion Around the Mediterranean Sea. (pp. 109-141) edited by Valerie Berenger, Florent Bresson and Jacques Silber. New York, NY, United States: Springer New York. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5263-8

Journal Articles

Makdissi, Paul, Marrouch, Walid and Yazbeck, Myra (2024). Monitoring poverty in a data-deprived environment: the case of Lebanon. Review of Income and Wealth, 71 (1) e12708. doi: 10.1111/roiw.12708
Byrne, Dominic, Kwak, Do Won, Tang, Kam Ki and Yazbeck, Myra (2023). Spillover effects of retirement: does health vulnerability matter?. Economics and Human Biology, 48 101211, 101211. doi: 10.1016/j.ehb.2022.101211
Khaled, Mohamad A., Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2023). On absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons. European Journal of Health Economics, 24 (1), 5-25. doi: 10.1007/s10198-022-01448-8
Jung, Dain, Kwak, Do Won, Tang, Kam Ki and Yazbeck, Myra (2022). Poor job conditions amplify negative mental health shocks. Labour Economics, 79 102257, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102257
Fakih, Ali, Makdissi, Paul, Marrouch, Walid, Tabri, Rami V. and Yazbeck, Myra (2022). A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions. Journal of Econometrics, 228 (2), 342-358. doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.09.016
Abu-Ismail, Khalid, Gantner, Verena, Makdissi, Paul and Yazbeck, Myra (2020). Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt. Metron-International Journal of Statistics, 78 (2), 175-191. doi: 10.1007/s40300-020-00176-4
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.

Areas of research

Applied Economics
Applied Health Economics and Health Econometrics
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