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Workplace:	Département d'Économie / Department of Economics, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2022

1. Monitoring Poverty in a Data Deprived Environment: The Case of Lebanon
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

2021

2. 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

2020

3. 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 Working Papers, University of Sydney, School of Economics (2020)
   Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2020)
4. 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)
5. On Absolute Socioeconomic Health Inequality Comparisons
   Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group

2018

6. On the importance of the upside down test in absolute socioeconomic health inequality comparisons
   Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics
   Also in Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics (2018)

2016

7. 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)
8. Income-Related Health Transfers Principles and Orderings of Joint Distributions of Income and Health
   Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics
   Also in Working Papers, Canadian Centre for Health Economics (2016) View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Health Economics (2018)

2015

9. 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

10. Robust Wagstaff Orderings of Distributions of Self-Reported Health Status
    Discussion Papers Series, University of Queensland, School of Economics View citations (1)

2013

11. Regional and Sectoral Distribution of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (1)
    See also Chapter (2013)

2012

12. 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)
13. 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)
14. On the Measurement of Indignation
    Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)
15. 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

16. A Fuzzy Approach to the Measurement of Leakages for North American Health Systems
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (1)
    Also in Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics (2011) View citations (1)

2010

17. Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to Mexico
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (1)
    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)
18. Rank-Dependent Measures of Bi-Polarization and Marginal Tax Reforms
    Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics
    Also in Working Papers, LAMETA, Universtiy of Montpellier (2009) View citations (1)
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2010) View citations (1)

2009

19. 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)
20. 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)
21. 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)
22. Peer Influence and Addiction Recurrence
    Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics

2008

23. 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'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2008) View citations (1)
24. Analyzing the impact of indirect tax reforms on rank-dependent social welfare functions: a positional dominance approach
    Post-Print, HAL View citations (5)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2008)
25. Between-Group Transfers and Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms?
    Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics
    Also in IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD (2006) View citations (7)
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (6)
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006) View citations (6)
26. Decomposition of s-concentration curves
    Post-Print, HAL
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006)
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006) View citations (7)
    IRISS Working Paper Series, IRISS at CEPS/INSTEAD (2006) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Canadian Journal of Economics (2008)
27. Est-ce que les subsides d'électricité diminuent la pauvreté en Guinée ?
    Working Papers, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2007

28. Corruption, Inequality, and Environmental Regulation
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (10)
29. Food Subsidies and Poverty in Egypt: Analysis of Program Reform using Stochastic Dominance
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2007) View citations (1)
30. 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'Economique 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

31. A Model of Horizontal Inequality
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
32. Analyse de l'incidence des dépenses publiques en éducation en Côte d'Ivoire: Une approche par dominance stochastique
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2006)
33. Assessing the Impact of Historical Changes in Social Protection on Poverty in Canada
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics Letters (2009)
34. 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'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
35. On the Definition of Economic Efficiency
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2006)
36. The Geographic Determinants of Poverty in Albania
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)

2005

37. Public Transfers, Equivalence Scales and Poverty in Canada and the United States
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke

2004

38. Can Risk Averse Private Entrepreneurs Efficiently Produce Low Income Housing?
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
39. Defining and Measuring (Extreme) Poverty
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
40. Environmental Regulation and Economic Growth under Education Externalities
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Development (2006)
41. Fuel Poverty and Access to Electricity:\\ Comparing Households When They Differ in Needs
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article in Applied Economics (2006)
42. Gini Decomposition and Gini Income Elasticity Under Income Variability
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Bulletin of Economic Research (2012)
43. L'impact des transferts publics et des taxes sur la pauvreté au Canada et aux États Unis
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in L'Actualité Economique (2006)
44. Poverty-Reducing and Welfare-Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2007)
45. Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Development Economics (2005)
46. Price Liberalization and Farmer Welfare Under Risk Aversion: Cotton in Benin and Ivory Coast
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (4)
47. Socially-Improving Tax Reforms
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (7)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE (2004) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article in International Economic Review (2008)
48. The Impact on Farmers of the Privatization of Integrated Agricultural Monopsonies
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke

2003

49. Poverty Measurement Under Risk Aversion Using Panel Data
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2004)
50. Poverty-Efficient Transfer Programs: The Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (21)
51. Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (6)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2003) View citations (3)
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2002) View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2005)
52. Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance for Welfare, Inequality and Poverty Orderings
    Cahiers de recherche, CIRPEE View citations (5)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (2000)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economic Theory (2004)
53. Robust Comparisons of Natural Resources Depletion Indices
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article in Economics Bulletin (2004)
54. Robust Poverty Comparisons and Marginal Policy Reform Orderings Under Income Variability
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (2)

2002

55. Can Safety Nets Offset the Impact of Risk on Wage Inequality and Social Welfare?
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
56. Migration, Poverty, and Housing: Welfare Comparisons Using Sequential Stochastic Dominance
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (5)
57. Socially-Efficient Tax Reforms
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (17)

2001

58. Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
    See also Journal Article in Review of Development Economics (2004)
59. Poverty Trap and Endogenous Population
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique (1999)
60. Restricted Inequality and Relative Poverty
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique View citations (7)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke (2001) View citations (9)

2000

61. Consumption Dominance Curves: Testing for the Impact of Tax Reforms on Poverty
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (3)
62. Problèmes d’appariement et politique de l’emploi
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke
63. Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance Welfare, Inequality and Povery Orderings
    Cahiers de recherche, Departement d'Economique de l'École de gestion à l'Université de Sherbrooke View citations (1)

1999

64. 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

65. Malthusian Trap and Endogenous Population
    Cahiers de recherche, Université Laval - Département d'économique

Journal Articles

2020

1. 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)
2. Socioeconomic inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt
   METRON, 2020, 78, (2), 175-191

2018

3. 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 (1)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
4. 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 (8)
   See also Working Paper (2016)

2017

5. Robust rankings of socioeconomic health inequality using a categorical variable
   Health Economics, 2017, 26, (9), 1132-1145 View citations (5)

2016

6. Avoiding blindness to health status in health achievement and health inequality measurement
   Social Science & Medicine, 2016, 171, (C), 39-47 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper (2015)

2015

7. On the measurement of plutonomy
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2015, 44, (4), 703-717 View citations (1)

2014

8. Measuring socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information
   Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 34, (C), 84-95 View citations (29)
   See also Working Paper (2012)
9. Pro-poor indirect tax reforms, with an application to Mexico
   International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, (1), 87-118 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper (2012)

2013

10. Decomposing health achievement and socioeconomic health inequalities in presence of multiple categorical information
    Economic Modelling, 2013, 35, (C), 964-968 View citations (14)

2012

11. Equivalence scales and housing deprivation orderings: an example using Lebanese data
    Applied Economics, 2012, 44, (7), 853-866
    See also Working Paper (2009)
12. 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

13. 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

14. 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)
15. Can Risk Averse Competitive Input Providers Serve Farmers Efficiently?
    Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2009, 7, (1), 1-12
16. TESTING FOR PRO‐POORNESS OF GROWTH, WITH AN APPLICATION TO MEXICO
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55, (4), 853-881 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper (2007)

2008

17. 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)
18. 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)
19. SOCIALLY IMPROVING TAX REFORMS
    International Economic Review, 2008, 49, (4), 1505-1537 View citations (29)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2007

20. Poverty‐Reducing and Welfare‐Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9, (4), 683-698 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper (2004)

2006

21. ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH UNDER EDUCATION EXTERNALITIES
    Journal of Economic Development, 2006, 31, (1), 45-51 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
22. 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)
23. 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

24. Poverty-dominant program reforms: the role of targeting and allocation rules
    Journal of Development Economics, 2005, 77, (1), 53-73 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper (2004)
25. 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)
26. SEQUENTIAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE AND THE ROBUSTNESS OF POVERTY ORDERINGS
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51, (1), 63-87 View citations (27)
    See also Working Paper (1999)
27. The Impact on Farmers of Privatizing Parastatal Agricultural Monopsonies
    Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization, 2005, 3, (2), 1-11 View citations (1)

2004

28. Escaping the poverty trap in a developing rural economy
    Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2004, 37, (1), 123-139
    Also in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2004, 37, (1), 123-139 (2004)
29. Fuzzy Targeting Indices and Orderings
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 2004, 56, (1), 41-51 View citations (8)
30. Measuring Poverty Reduction and Targeting Performance Under Multiple Government Programs
    Review of Development Economics, 2004, 8, (4), 573-582 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper (2001)
31. Migration, poverty, and housing in Honduras
    Estudios de Economia, 2004, 31, (1 Year 2004), 5-20
32. 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)
33. Restricted and Unrestricted Dominance for Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty Orderings
    Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2004, 6, (1), 145-164 View citations (36)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
34. Robust Comparisons of Natural Resources Depletion Indices
    Economics Bulletin, 2004, 9, (2), 1-9 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
35. 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

36. Infantile mortality and fertility decisions in a stochastic environment
    Economics Bulletin, 2003, 10, (2), 1-9 View citations (6)
37. La décroissance démographique: pourquoi pas ?
    Revue d'économie politique, 2003, 113, (3), 403-414 View citations (3)
38. Risk-adjusted measures of wage inequality and safety nets
    Economics Bulletin, 2003, 9, (1), 1-10 View citations (18)

2002

39. Consumption dominance curves: testing for the impact of indirect tax reforms on poverty
    Economics Letters, 2002, 75, (2), 227-235 View citations (59)
40. Que pouvons-nous apprendre des profils de pauvreté canadiens?
    L'Actualité Economique, 2002, 78, (2), 257-286 View citations (9)

2001

41. Population, ressources naturelles et droits de propriété
    Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2001, (61), 91-103 View citations (8)

Edited books

2018

1. Productivity and Inequality
   Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, Springer

Chapters

2018

1. Poverty-Dominant Marginal Transfer Reforms in Socially Risky Situations
   Springer View citations (1)

2013

2. Regional and Sectoral Distributions of Poverty in Lebanon, 2004
   Springer
   See also Working Paper (2013)