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Working Papers
2023
- A unidimensional representation of multidimensional inequality, with an application to the Arab region
Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics
- Monitoring poverty in a data deprived environment: The case of Lebanon This paper is motivated by the dearth of statistical capacity in the Middle East and North Africa region and the unprecedented economic collapse in Lebanon. We expand and apply a novel data augmentation technique to conduct poverty analysis when the usual data sources on income distribution are limited or unavailable. Building on available data augmentation techniques, we recover the continuous income distribution from the available data when the income variable takes the form of intervals. We expand existing techniques to derive dominance conditions for interval income data accounting for non-response. This extension allows us to run robustness checks of our empirical results by estimating the bounds of the set of admissible cumulative distribution functions. Our empirical application then analyzes poverty dynamics using first-order dominance tests on the bounds of admissible cumulative distribution functions sets and shows the importance of the proposed approach using Lebanese data. The empirical application provides a picture of poverty dynamics and insights into the politico-economic dynamics preceding and following the economic collapse. More generally, we show that the development analyst can exploit alternative data sources to conduct the much-needed poverty analysis
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics
2022
- Monitoring Poverty in a Data Deprived Environment: The Case of Lebanon
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group
2021
- A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions
Working Papers, University of Sydney, School of Economics View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2022)
2020
- Confidence in Public Institutions and the Run up to the October 2019 Uprising in Lebanon
IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) 
Also in Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2020)  Working Papers, University of Sydney, School of Economics (2020)
- Is the elimination of food subsidies the right policy to address Lebanon’s public finance crisis?
MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany 
See also Journal Article in Review of Middle East Economics and Finance (2020)
- On Absolute Socioeconomic Health Inequality Comparisons
Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group 
See also Journal Article in The European Journal of Health Economics (2023)
2018
- On the importance of the upside down test in absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons
Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics (2018)
2016
- A Framework for Testing the Equality Between the Health Concentration Curve and the 45-Degree Line
Working Papers, University of Sydney, School of Economics 
Also in Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics (2016)  Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2016) 
See also Journal Article in Health Economics (2018)
- Income-Related Health Transfers Principles and Orderings of Joint Distributions of Income and Health
Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics View citations (2)
Also in Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2016) 
See also Journal Article in Journal of Health Economics (2018)
2015
- Avoiding Blindness to Health Status in Health Achievement and Health Inequality Measurement
Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics 
See also Journal Article in Social Science & Medicine (2016)
2014
- Robust Wagstaff Orderings of Distributions of Self-Reported Health Status
Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics View citations (1)
2013
- Regional and Sectoral Distribution of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004
Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
See also Chapter (2013)
2012
- Avoiding Blinding to Health Status: A New Class of Health Achievement and Inequality Indices
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (2)
- Measuring Socioeconomic Health Inequalities in Presence of Multiple Categorical Information
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Health Economics (2014)
- On the Measurement of Indignation
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
- Pro-poor indirect tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
Working Papers, FERDI 
Also in Working Papers, FERDI (2012) 
See also Journal Article in International Tax and Public Finance (2014)
2011
- A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Leakages for North American Health Systems
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2011) View citations (1)
2010
- Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (2)
Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2009) View citations (2) Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics (2009) View citations (4)
- Rank-Dependent Measures of Bi-Polarization and Marginal Tax Reforms
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)
Also in Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics (2010)  Working Papers, LAMETA, Universtiy of Montpellier (2009) View citations (1)
2009
- Assessing the Redistributive Impact of Higher Education Tuition Fees Reforms: The Case of Québec
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2011)
- Can risk averse competitive input providers serve farmers efficiently in developing countries ?
Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank 
Also in Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics (2008)
- Equivalence Scales and Housing Deprivation Orderings: An Example Using Lebanese Data
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2009) 
See also Journal Article in Applied Economics (2012)
- Peer Influence and Addiction Recurrence
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics
2008
- An ethnic polarization measure with an application to Ivory Coast data
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (2)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2008) View citations (2)
- Analyzing the impact of indirect tax reforms on rank-dependent social welfare functions: a positional dominance approach
Post-Print, HAL View citations (16)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (8)
See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2008)
- Between-Group Transfers and Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms?
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006) View citations (6) IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD (2006) View citations (7) Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (6)
- Decomposition of s-concentration curves
Post-Print, HAL
Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006) View citations (7) Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (8) IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD (2006) View citations (7)
See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics (2008)
- Est-ce que les subsides d'électricité diminuent la pauvreté en Guinée ?
Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
2007
- Corruption, Inequality, and Environmental Regulation
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (12)
- Food Subsidies and Poverty in Egypt: Analysis of Program Reform using Stochastic Dominance
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2007) View citations (1)
- Testing for Pro-poorness of Growth, with an Application to Mexico
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (27)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2007) View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2009)
2006
- A Model of Horizontal Inequality
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
- Analyse de l'incidence des dépenses publiques en éducation en Côte d'Ivoire: Une approche par dominance stochastique
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006)
- Assessing the Impact of Historical Changes in Social Protection on Poverty in Canada
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke 
See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2009)
- L’impact de la proposition conservatrice de réforme du financement des services de garde sur la pauvreté et l’inégalité au Québec
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
- On the Definition of Economic Efficiency
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006)
- The Geographic Determinants of Poverty in Albania
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)
2005
- Public Transfers, Equivalence Scales and Poverty in Canada and the United States
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
2004
- Can Risk Averse Private Entrepreneurs Efficiently Produce Low Income Housing?
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
- Defining and Measuring (Extreme) Poverty
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke 
See also Chapter (2006)
- Environmental Regulation and Economic Growth under Education Externalities
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Development (2006)
- Fuel Poverty and Access to Electricity:\\ Comparing Households When They Differ in Needs
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Applied Economics (2006)
- Gini Decomposition and Gini Income Elasticity Under Income Variability
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Bulletin of Economic Research (2012)
- L'impact des transferts publics et des taxes sur la pauvreté au Canada et aux États Unis
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in L'Actualité Economique (2006)
- Poverty-Reducing and Welfare-Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2007)
- Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke 
See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2005)
- Price Liberalization and Farmer Welfare Under Risk Aversion: Cotton in Benin and Ivory Coast
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (4)
- Socially-Improving Tax Reforms
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (10)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2004) View citations (9)
See also Journal Article in International Economic Review (2008)
- The Impact on Farmers of the Privatization of Integrated Agricultural Monopsonies
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
2003
- Poverty Measurement Under Risk Aversion Using Panel Data
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
See also Journal Article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2004)
- Poverty-Efficient Transfer Programs: The Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (21)
- Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2002) View citations (6) Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2003) View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2005)
- Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance for Welfare, Inequality and Poverty Orderings
Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (9)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2000) View citations (4)
See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2004)
- Robust Comparisons of Natural Resources Depletion Indices
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (5)
See also Journal Article in Economics Bulletin (2004)
- Robust Poverty Comparisons and Marginal Policy Reform Orderings Under Income Variability
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
2002
- Can Safety Nets Offset the Impact of Risk on Wage Inequality and Social Welfare?
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
- Migration, Poverty, and Housing: Welfare Comparisons Using Sequential Stochastic Dominance
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (5)
- Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms
Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (17)
2001
- Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (6)
See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (2004)
- Poverty Trap and Endogenous Population
Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique 
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (1999)
- Restricted Inequality and Relative Poverty
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (9)
Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2001) View citations (8)
See also Chapter (2007)
2000
- Consumption Dominance Curves: Testing for the Impact of Tax Reforms on Poverty
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
- Problèmes d’appariement et politique de l’emploi
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
- Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance Welfare, Inequality and Povery Orderings
Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'économique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)
1999
- Sequential Stochastic Dominance and the Robustness of Poverty Orderings
Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (6)
Also in Working Papers, New South Wales - School of Economics (1999) View citations (19)
See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2005)
1997
- Malthusian Trap and Endogenous Population
Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
Journal Articles
2023
- On absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons
The European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, (1), 5-25 
See also Working Paper (2020)
2022
- A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions
Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 228, (2), 342-358 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper (2021)
2020
- Is the Elimination of Food Subsidies the Right Policy to Address Lebanon’s Public Finance Crisis?
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2020, 16, (2), 17 
See also Working Paper (2020)
- Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt
METRON, 2020, 78, (2), 175-191
2018
- A framework for testing the equality between the health concentration curve and the 45‐degree line
Health Economics, 2018, 27, (5), 887-896 View citations (3)
See also Working Paper (2016)
- Income-related health transfers principles and orderings of joint distributions of income and health
Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 57, (C), 315-331 View citations (7)
See also Working Paper (2016)
2017
- Robust rankings of socioeconomic health inequality using a categorical variable
Health Economics, 2017, 26, (9), 1132-1145 View citations (8)
2016
- Avoiding blindness to health status in health achievement and health inequality measurement
Social Science & Medicine, 2016, 171, (C), 39-47 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper (2015)
2015
- On the measurement of plutonomy
Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 44, (4), 703-717 View citations (1)
2014
- Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information
Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 34, (C), 84-95 View citations (34)
See also Working Paper (2012)
- Pro-poor indirect tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, (1), 87-118 View citations (6)
See also Working Paper (2012)
2013
- Decomposing health achievement and socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information
Economic Modelling, 2013, 35, (C), 964-968 View citations (15)
2012
- Equivalence scales and housing deprivation orderings: an example using Lebanese data
Applied Economics, 2012, 44, (7), 853-866 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2009)
- GINI DECOMPOSITION AND GINI INCOME ELASTICITY UNDER INCOME VARIABILITY
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2012, 64, (2), 184-191 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper (2004)
2011
- Assessing the redistributive impact of higher education tuition fees reforms: the case of Quebec
Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18, (2), 143-147 View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2009)
2009
- Assessing the impact of historical changes in social protection on poverty in Canada
Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16, (5), 523-526 
See also Working Paper (2006)
- Can Risk Averse Competitive Input Providers Serve Farmers Efficiently?
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2009, 7, (1), 1-12
- TESTING FOR PRO‐POORNESS OF GROWTH, WITH AN APPLICATION TO MEXICO
Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (4), 853-881 View citations (18)
See also Working Paper (2007)
2008
- Analyzing the impact of indirect tax reforms on rank-dependent social welfare functions: a positional dominance approach
Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 30, (3), 385-399 View citations (16)
See also Working Paper (2008)
- Decomposition of s-concentration curves
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2008, 41, (4), 1312-1328 View citations (2)
Also in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41, (4), 1312-1328 (2008) 
See also Working Paper (2008)
- SOCIALLY IMPROVING TAX REFORMS
International Economic Review, 2008, 49, (4), 1505-1537 View citations (32)
See also Working Paper (2004)
2007
- Poverty‐Reducing and Welfare‐Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9, (4), 683-698 View citations (14)
See also Working Paper (2004)
2006
- ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH UNDER EDUCATION EXTERNALITIES
Journal of Economic Development, 2006, 31, (1), 45-51 View citations (2)
See also Working Paper (2004)
- Fuel poverty and access to electricity: comparing households when they differ in needs
Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1071-1078 View citations (12)
See also Working Paper (2004)
- L’impact des transferts publics et des taxes sur la pauvreté au Canada et aux États-Unis*
L'Actualité Economique, 2006, 82, (3), 377-394 View citations (4)
See also Working Paper (2004)
2005
- Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
Journal of Development Economics, 2005, 77, (1), 53-73 View citations (15)
See also Working Paper (2004)
- Poverty‐Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2005, 7, (1), 107-116 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- SEQUENTIAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE AND THE ROBUSTNESS OF POVERTY ORDERINGS
Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51, (1), 63-87 View citations (32)
See also Working Paper (1999)
- The Impact on Farmers of Privatizing Parastatal Agricultural Monopsonies
Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2005, 3, (2), 1-11 View citations (1)
2004
- Escaping the poverty trap in a developing rural economy
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2004, 37, (1), 123-139 View citations (1)
Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2004, 37, (1), 123-139 (2004) View citations (1)
- Fuzzy Targeting Indices and Orderings
Bulletin of Economic Research, 2004, 56, (1), 41-51 View citations (8)
- Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs
Review of Development Economics, 2004, 8, (4), 573-582 View citations (11)
See also Working Paper (2001)
- Migration, poverty, and housing in Honduras
Estudios de Economia, 2004, 31, (1 Year 2004), 5-20
- Poverty Measurement Under Risk Aversion Using Panel Data
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2004, 3, (1), 1-20 View citations (8)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance for Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty Orderings
Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2004, 6, (1), 145-164 View citations (39)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- Robust Comparisons of Natural Resources Depletion Indices
Economics Bulletin, 2004, 9, (2), 1-9 View citations (4)
See also Working Paper (2003)
- Un effet externe positif à l'embauche. L'amélioration de la connaissance de la qualité des travailleurs
Revue économique, 2004, 55, (1), 93-102 View citations (2)
2003
- Infantile mortality and fertility decisions in a stochastic environment
Economics Bulletin, 2003, 10, (2), 1-9 View citations (6)
- La décroissance démographique: pourquoi pas ?
Revue d'économie politique, 2003, 113, (3), 403-414 View citations (3)
- Risk-adjusted measures of wage inequality and safety nets
Economics Bulletin, 2003, 9, (1), 1-10 View citations (18)
2002
- Consumption dominance curves: testing for the impact of indirect tax reforms on poverty
Economics Letters, 2002, 75, (2), 227-235 View citations (61)
- Que pouvons-nous apprendre des profils de pauvreté canadiens?
L'Actualité Economique, 2002, 78, (2), 257-286 View citations (9)
2001
- Population, ressources naturelles et droits de propriété
Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2001, (61), 91-103 View citations (8)
Edited books
2018
- Productivity and Inequality
Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, Springer View citations (10)
Chapters
2023
- Child malnutrition
Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 273-282
2018
- Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations
Springer View citations (1)
2013
- Regional and Sectoral Distributions of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004
Springer View citations (1)
See also Working Paper (2013)
2007
- Restricted Inequality and Relative Poverty
A chapter in Inequality and Poverty, 2007, pp 255-280 
See also Working Paper (2001)
2006
- Defining and measuring extreme poverty
A chapter in Dynamics of Inequality and Poverty, 2006, pp 325-340 
See also Working Paper (2004)
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