Paul Makdissi

Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa

Paul Makdissi is a professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Ottawa. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Inequality. Previously he has held positions at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands). His main research areas are socioeconomic health inequality measurement, the distributive impact of taxation and public pricing, and income inequality measurement. He was the president of the Société canadienne de science économique (the French Canadian economics association) for the 2021-2022 academic year. From 2017 to 2019, he was the thematic leader for the Equity and Inclusive Growth research theme for the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey. He has consulted for many international organizations, ministries, and agencies in Canada.

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Areas of Interest:

Inequality measurement
Distributive impact of taxation and public pricing

Education:

PhD, Economics, Université Laval (1999)
BSc, Actuarial mathematics, Universé Laval (1989)

Experience:

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, July 2007-Present.
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Univerité de Sherbrooke, July 2004 to June 2007.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université de Sherbrooke, July 2000 to June 2004.
Research Fellow, Development Economics Group, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, September 1999 to June 2000.

Latest Publications:

Khaled, M., P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2023), On absolute socioeconomic health inequality, European Journal of Health Economics., 24, 5-25.
Khaled, M., P. Makdissi and M. Yazbeck (2023), Child malnutrition, in J. Silber (Ed.), Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, Edward Elgar, 273-282.
Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri and M. Yazbeck (2022), A stochastic dominance test under survey nonresponse with an application to comparing trust levels in Lebanese public institutions, Journal of Econometrics, 228, 342-358.