Myra Yazbeck
Associate Professor, University of Ottawa
Myra Yazbeck is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa. She received her PhD in Economics from Université Laval in 2011. In 2012, she completed a year of post-doctoral studies at McGill University, Department of Epidemiology Biostatistics and Occupational Health, where she developed a research agenda on health inequalities. Yazbeck's dissertation focuses on the impact of social networks on health outcomes. Her research interests are mainly in the field of health economics, social interactions/networks and inequality. She has published many articles in international refereed journals such as Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, Social Choice and Welfare and Social Science and Medicine. Dr. Yazbeck is a fellow member of the Life Course Center (University of Queensland Australia) and an associate member of the Canadian Center for Health Economics (University of Toronto, Canada).
Areas of Interest:
- Health Education and Welfare
- Social Interactions
- Labour Economics
- Development Economics
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, Université Laval, 2011
Experience:
- Associate Professor (Tenured), Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, 2018 – present
- Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, 2016 –2018
- Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), School of Economics, University of Queensland, Tenure track position, 2012 –-2016
Latest Publications:
- Byrne D., Kwak D., Tang KK., and M.Yazbeck (forthcoming), Spillover effects of Retirement, does Vulnerability matter? Economics and Human Biology.
- Jung D., Kwak D., Tang KK., and M. Yazbeck (forthcoming), How do Job Conditions Amplify the Impact of Mental Health Shocks? Labor Economics.
- Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri and M. Yazbeck (forthcoming), A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions, Journal of Econometrics.
