Curriculum Vitae - Département d'économique - Université Laval

Curriculum Vitae 

Jean-Yves Duclos 

Professional Address 

Department of economics Phone: (+1 418) 656-7096 

Pavillon de Sève Fax: (+1 418) 656 7798 

Université Laval 

Email: jyduc@ecn.ulaval.ca 

Québec, QC, Canada, G1V 0A6 

www.ecn.ulaval.ca/∼jyves/ 

Education 

1989-1992 Ph.D. in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science; Title of 

thesis: Progressivity, Equity and the Take-up of State Benefits, with Application 

to the 1985 British Tax and Benefit System; Supervisor: A.B. Atkinson. 

1988-1989 M.Sc. in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science. 

1986-1988 B.A., First-Class Honours in Economics, University of Alberta. 

1984-1985 First year of a B.A. in Economics, University of Ottawa. 

1982-1984 Diplôme d’études collégiales in sciences, Petit Séminaire de Québec. 

Academic Positions 

2012- Director, Department of economics, Université Laval. 

2003- Full Professor, Department of economics, Université Laval. 

2005-2008 Director, Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et 

l’emploi, CIRPÉE. 

2002-2005 Co-director, Centre interuniversitaire sur le risque, les politiques économiques et 

l’emploi, CIRPÉE. 

1999 Visiting Fellow, School of Economics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 

Australia, (January-July). 

1998-2003 Associate Professor, Departement of economics, Université Laval. 

1993-1998 Assistant Professor, Departement of economics, Université Laval. 

1992-1993 Research Officer, Research program on “Public Finance in Transitional 

Economies — China and Poland”, STICERD, London School of Economics; Supervisor: 

Nicholas Stern. 

1989-1992 Teacher, London School of Economics; International Economics, Problems of 

Applied Economics, Introduction to Economic Policy. 

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1989-1992 Research Assistant, STICERD, London School of Economics. 

1989 Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Université Laval. 

1988 Intern, Department of Financial and Monetary Analysis, Bank of Canada. 

1987-1988 Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Economics, University of Alberta. 

Other professional responsibilities 

Institutional collaboration 

Fellow Institute on Aging and Social Participation of the Elderly, IVSPA, 2013- 

Coordinator 

Research program on the economic analysis of social policy SIMUL 

Director PEP-Laval Graduate School in Development Economics, 2011- 

Research Coordinator Microeconomic measurement and analysis, Partnership for Economic Policy, 

PEP, 2012- 

Member Management Committee, Partnership for Economic Policy, PEP, 2011-2012. 

Network and Program Leader Poverty and Economic Policy International Research Network, PEP, 

2002-2011. 

Senior Fellow Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI), 2011- 

Founder 

Fellow 

Member 

PEP-Laval Graduate School in Development Economics. 

Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations (CIRANO), 

2010- 

Selection committee, Marcel-Dagenais Prize (Société canadienne de science 

économique), 2012. 

Evaluator Economic Research Forum (ERF) , 2011-2012 

Member Program Committee of African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), 2010- 

Fellow-in-residence C. D. Howe Institute, 2010- 

Quebec Scholar C. D. Howe Institute, 2008-2010. 

Co-Founder Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) International Research Network, 2002- 

Co-Organizer 

Member 

First conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research network, Manila, 

Philippines, February 22-25, 2003; Second conference of the Poverty and Economic 

Policy research network, Hanoi, Vietnam, November 4-8, 2003; Third 

conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research network, Saly, Senegal, 

June 16-20, 2004; Fourth conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research 

network, Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 13-17, 2005; Fifth conference of the Poverty 

and Economic Policy research network, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 2006; Sixth 

conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research network, June 11-16, 

2007, Lima, Peru; Seventh conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research 

network, 6-12 December 2008, Manilla; Eighth conference of the Poverty 

and Economic Policy research network, 12-18 June 2010, Dakar, Senegal; Ninth 

conference of the Poverty and Economic Policy research network, 5-9 December 

2012, Siem Reap, Cambodia. 

Scientific Committee of the international conference “Statistiques sociales, exclusion 

sociale et pauvreté : perspectives québécoise, canadiennes et internationales”, 

Montreal, 30 November – 2 December 2011. 

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Member 

Advisory committee of Quebec’s Auditor General. 

Member Scientific Committee, Fourth Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic 

Inequality (ECINEQ), Italy, July 2011. 

Local organizer Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, Quebec City, 27-30 

May 2010. 

Member Scientific Committee of the network Analyse économique et développement 

(AED) de l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), 2008- 

Member Board of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), 2005- 

Resource person 

Member 

Evaluator 

Member 

African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) biannual conferences (two conferences 

every year), 1998- 

Steering committee of Phase I and Phase II, Collaborative project on “Poverty, 

Labor Market and Income Distribution”, African Economic Research Consortium, 

Nairobi, 2000-2007. 

AXA Research Fund (2010-2011); l’Agence nationale de la recherche (France, 

2011); Fonds québécois de recherche sur la société et la culture (2003-2006); 

National Science Foundation, USA (2002-2003); Canadian Initiative on Social 

Statistics (2002-2009) ; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of 

Canada (2000-); Fonds québécois pour l’avancement de la recherche; Centre 

québécois de la recherche sociale; Comité d’évaluation des centres de recherche 

de la Faculté des sciences sociales, Université Laval (2006-2008); Faculty of social 

sciences, University of Ottawa, 2006. 

Scientific Committee, Workshop on ‘Multidimensional Poverty and “Pro-poor” 

Growth in the MENA Countries’, Centre d’Études en Macroéconomie et Finance 

Internationale, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis Nice, 11-12 June 2009. 

Member Executive Council of the Canadian Economic Association, 2006-2009. 

Member Committee on the constitution of the Canadian Economics Association, 2006- 

2009. 

Member 

Member 

Member 

Member 

Member 

Member 


Scientific Committee, Third Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic 

Inequality (ECINEQ), Buenos Aires, August 2009. 

Expert panel of Statistics Canada and Human Resources and Development 

Canada on the revision of the Market Based Measure, Gatineau, 25-26 August 

2009. 

Advisory committee on demographic and social statistics, Institut de la Statistique 

du Québec, 2009- 

Committee on the organisation of future Canadian Economics Association conferences, 

2006-2009. 

Comité de programme des études graduées du département d’économique, Université 

Laval, 2002-2006; 2009- 

Scientific Committee of conference on “Income Polarization: Measurement, Determinants 

and Implications”, 26-28 May 2008, Israel. 

Workshop on “Inequality and regional integration in the Arab world”, Cairo, 

Egypt, 21-22 November 2008. 

President Evaluation committee, FQRSC, 2008. 

Member 

Member 

Université Laval’s Social Sciences research committee,2005-2008. 

Commission municipale sur les finances et les services publics, Ville de Québec, 

2007-2008. 

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Member 

Member 

Executive committee, Research Centre on poverty and exclusion, Ministère 

de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, Québec, 2006-2009. (Committee report: 

Prendre la mesure de la pauvreté: Proposition d’indicateurs de pauvreté, 

d’inégalités et d’exclusion sociale afin de mesurer les progrès réalisés au Québec.) 

Executive committee, Défi “Lutte contre la pauvreté” du Conseil supérieur de la 

science et de la technologie, Québec, 2005-2008. 

Member Scientific Committee, Second Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic 

Inequality (ECINEQ), Berlin, July 2007. 

President Société canadienne de science économique, 2006-2007. 

Member Scientific Committee of conference on “Liberalization experiences in Asia: A 

normative appraisal”, New-Delhi, 12-13 January 2006. 

President-elect Société canadienne de science économique, 2005-2006. 

Member 

Scientific Committee, First Conference of the Society for the Study of Economic 

Inequality (ECINEQ), Palma de Mallorca, 20-22 July 2005. 

Academic adviser Expert Panel on Equalization and Territorial Formula Financing, Government of 

Canada, 2005. 

Organizer 


Member 

Conference of the Société canadienne de science économique, Montreal, May 

2005. 

Conference on “Public Policy and Poverty Reduction in the Arab Region”, IFPRI 

and Arab Planning Institute (API), Koweit, April 2004. 

Strategic committee, La Presse,“Un Québec au travail! Stratégie pour une société 

plus prospère”, December 2003-February 2004. 

Member Selection committee, Gérard-Parizeau Award, 2004, 2012 

Organizer and Trainer Advanced Training Workshop on Public Expenditures, Poverty and Equity, 

Dakar, Senegal, 10-14 June 2004. 

Co-Organizer 

“Multidimensional Measurement and Comparisons of Economic Well Being” sessions, 

International Association for Research on Income and Wealth, Cork, Ireland, 

22-28 August 2004. 

Adviser Cost-benefit analysis, Ministère des Finances du Québec, 2003. 

Member Scientific Committee, Journées de Micro-économie appliquée, Québec, June 2000. 

Vice president Société canadienne de science économique, 1998-2000. 

Co-Organizer Second meeting, Canadian Public Economics Study Group, 4-5 June 1996. 

Editorial responsibilities 

Member Editorial Board, Canadian Tax Journal/Revue fiscale canadienne, 2013- 

Editor-in-Chief Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007-2102. 

Co-Editor Journal of Economic Inequality, 2002-2007. 

Co-Editor Actualité économique, 1998-2002. 

Member 

Editorial Board, Cahiers Ivoiriens de Recherche Economique et Sociale, Journal 

of the Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES), 2007- 

Member Editorial Board, Review of Income and Wealth, 2002- 

Member Editorial Board, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, 2010- 

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Referee Actualité Économique, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of 

Development Studies, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne 

d’économique, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques, Econometric Reviews, 

Econometrica, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic 

Journal, Economica, Economics Letters, Energy Studies, Éthique Publique, European 

Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Statistical 

Review, International Tax and Public Finance, Investigaciones Económicas, 

Journal of African Economies, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal 

of Applied Statistics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of 

Development Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic and Social 

Measurement, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Health Economics, 

Journal of Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public 

Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Journal of the American 

Statistical Association, Middle East Development Journal, National Tax Journal, 

Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, Politics, Philosophy and 

Economics, Quantitative Finance, Recherches sociographiques, Review of Economics 

and Statistics, Research on Economic Inequality, Review of Economic 

Studies, Review of Income and Wealth, Revue d’Économie du Développement, 

Southern Economic Journal, Sri Lankan Economic Journal, World Bank Economic 

Review, World Development. 

Distinctions 

2012 Harry Johnson Prize (joint with Wen-Hao Chen) for the best article in the Canadian 

Journal of Economics. 

2011 Invited Professor, Centro de Estudios Fiscales, Quito, Ecuador. 

2011 Visiting Professor, Universidad Pablo de Olavide de Sevilla, Spain. 

2009, 2011 Visiting Professor, Centre d’études et de recherche sur le développement international 

(CERDI), Université d’Auvergne, France. 

2008-2009 Research fellow, Instituto de Análisis Económico, Universitat Autònoma de 

Barcelona. 

2006 Marcel-Dagenais Prize for best research record between 2000 and 2006, Société 

canadienne de science économique. 

2000-2001 Research fellow, Instituto de Análisis Económico, Universitat Autònoma de 

Barcelona. 

1989-1992 Commonwealth Scholarship. 

1988-1989 Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship for Studies in International Economics at 

the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

1988 Faculty of Arts Honors Prize, University of Alberta. 

1988 Archibald Forster McGoon Memorial Book Prize, University of Alberta. 

1987 Alberta Energy Company Ltd. Scholarship, University of Alberta. 

1987 Duncan Alexander McGibbon Medal in Economics, University of Alberta. 

1987 Mary Cameron Douglas Memorial Scholarship, University of Alberta. 

1987 Canadian Secretary of State Scholarship. 

1986-1988 Dean of Arts’ Honors List, University of Alberta. 

1984-1985 Dean of Arts’ Honors List, University of Ottawa. 

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Publications 

Forthcoming scientific papers 

BIBI, S., J.-Y. DUCLOS and A. ARAAR, Mobility, taxation and welfare, forthcoming in Social 

Choice and Welfare. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., and A. Zabsonré, Social evaluations when populations differ in size, forthcoming 

in Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’économique. 

CLAVET, N.-J., J.-Y. DUCLOS and G. LACROIX, Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed 

Minimum Income Proposals in Québec, forthcoming in Analyse de politiques/Canadian Public 

Policy. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., P. MAKDISSI and A. ARAAR, Pro-Poor Indirect Tax Reforms, with an Application 

to Mexico, forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance. 

Published scientific papers 

KABUBO-MARIARA, Jane, Abdelkrim ARAAR, and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2013), Multidimensional 

Poverty and Child Well-being in Kenya, Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 47, # 2, 109-137. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2013), Review of ‘Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty’, edited by Sudhir 

Anand, Paul Segal and Joseph Stiglitz, Oxford University Press, Oxford, Economica, vol.80, #317, 

192-193. 

DAVIDSON, R. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2012), Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance, Econometric 

Reviews, vol. 32, #1, 84–125. 

BIBI, Sami, Jean-Yves DUCLOS and Audrey VERDIER-CHOUCHANE (2012), Assessing Absolute 

and Relative Pro-Poor Growth, with an Application to Selected African Countries, Economics: The 

Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, vol. 6, 2012-7. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and D. ÉCHEVIN (2011), Health and Income: a Robust Comparison of Canada 

and the US, Journal of Health Economics, vol. 30, #2, March, 293-302. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., J. LEBLANC, and D. SAHN (2011), Comparing Population Distributions from 

bin-Aggregated Sample Data: an Application to Historical Height Data from France, Economics 

and Human Biology, vol. 9, Issue 4, December 419-437. 

CHEN, Wen-Hao, and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2011), Testing for Poverty Dominance: an Application to 

Canada, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’économique, vol. 44, #3, 781-803 

Harry Johnson Prize for the best article in the Canadian Journal of Economics. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and Audrey VERDIER-CHOUCHANE (2011), Analyzing Pro-Poor Growth in 

Southern Africa: Lessons from Mauritius and South Africa, African Development Review, vol. 23, 

#2, 121-146. 

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BIBI, S. et J.-Y. DUCLOS (2011), L’effet des prélèvements fiscaux et des transferts aux particuliers 

sur la pauvreté au Québec et au Canada, Analyse de politiques/Canadian Public Policy, vol. 37, 

#1, 1-24. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., D. E. SAHN and S.D. YOUNGER (2011), Partial Multidimensional Inequality 

Orderings, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 95, # 3-4, 225-238. 

ARAAR, A., Y. DISSOU, and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2011), Household Incidence of Pollution Control 

Policies: a Robust Welfare Analysis Using General Equilibrium Effects, Journal of Environmental 

Economics and Management, vol. 61, 227-243. 

BIBI, Sami et DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2010), Y a-t-il plus de pauvreté au Québec qu’au Canada, Actualité 

Économique, vol. 86, #3, 277-318. 

BIBI, S. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2010), A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and 

market income across five OECD countries, Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 62 (4), 387-406. 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2010), Poverty and inequality: a micro framework, 

Journal of African Economies, 19(3), 357-398. 

BATANA, Yélé Maweki and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2010), Testing for Mobility Dominance, Research on 

Economic Inequality, vol. 18, 173-195. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., A. ARAAR and J. GILES (2009), Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement 

and Estimation, with Evidence from China, Journal of Development Economics,, 91 (2), March, 

266-277. 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim, Jean-Yves DUCLOS, Mathieu AUDET and Paul MAKDISSI (2009), Testing 

for pro-poorness of growth, with an application to Mexico, Review of Income and Wealth, 55 (4), 

December, 853-881. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves, Bernard FORTIN and Andrée-Anne FOURNIER (2009), An Analysis of Effective 

Marginal Tax Rates in Quebec, Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 35 (3), 344-371. 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim, and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2009), DAD: A software for poverty and distributive 

analysis, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 34 (2-3), 175-189. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., B. FORTIN and A.-A. FOURNIER (2008), Une analyse des taux marginaux effectifs 

d’imposition au Québec, Actualité Économique, 84 (1), 5-46. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves, Paul MAKDISSI and Quentin WODON (2008), Socially-Improving Tax Reforms, 

International Economic Review, vol. 49, #4, 1507-1539. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y (2009) What is ’Pro-Poor’, Social Choice and Welfare, vol 32, #1, 37-58. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves (2007), Review of “Poverty Measurement: Meanings, Methods and Requirements” 

by Dileni Gunewardena, The Peradeniya Journal of Economics, vol.1, no 1-2, 104-108. 

BIBI, S. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2007), Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting, 

Journal of Development Economics. 83, #1, 109-140. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and P. MAKDISSI (2007), Restricted inequality and relative poverty, Research on 

Economic Inequality 14, #12, 255-280. 

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BIBI, S. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2007), Poverty-Decreasing Indirect Tax Reforms: 

Tunisia, International Tax and Public Finance, 14, #2, 165-190. 

Evidence from 

ARAAR, A. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2006), An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions: 

Theory and Illustration Using Data from the Luxembourg Income Study, Public Finance 54, # 3/4, 

191-209. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves (2006), Innis Lecture: Equity and Equality, Canadian Journal of Economics, 

39, # 4, 1073-1104. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., D. SAHN et S. YOUNGER (2006), Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty 

Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda, World Bank Economic Review, 20, #1, July, 

91-113. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., D. SAHN et S. YOUNGER (2006), Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons, 

Economic Journal, 116, no 514, October, 943-968. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2006), Liberté ou égalité, Actualité Économique, 82, #4, December, 441-476. 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim, J.-Y. DUCLOS et François BLAIS (2005), Effets redistributifs d’un régime 

d’allocation universelle: une simulation pour le Québec, Actualité Économique 81, #3, septembre, 

422-484. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2005), Review of ’Growth, Inequality, and Poverty: Prospects for Pro-Poor Economic 

Development’, edited by Anthony Shorrocks and Rolph van der Hoeven, Economic Development 

and Cultural Change, 54, #1, 277-280. 

BEAULIEU, Nicolas, J.-Y. DUCLOS, Bernard FORTIN et Manon ROULEAU (2005), Intergenerational 

Reliance on Social Assistance: Evidence from Canada, Journal of Population Economics, vol. 

18, #3, September, 539-562. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves and Damien ECHEVIN (2005), Bipolarization Comparisons, Economics Letters, 

vol. 87, 249-258. 

DUCLOS, Jean-Yves, Paul MAKDISSI and Quentin WODON (2005), Poverty-Efficient Transfer 

Programs: the Role of Targeting and Allocation Rules, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 77, 

#1, 53-74. 

DUCLOS, J.Y., Paul MAKDISSI and Quentin WODON (2005), Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms 

with Heterogeneous Agents, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 7, #1, 107-116. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., and Paul MAKDISSI (2005), Sequential stochastic dominance and the robustness 

of poverty orderings, Review of Income and Wealth, vol. 61, #1, 63-88. 

BIBI, Sami and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2005), Decomposing poverty changes into vertical and horizontal 

components, Bulletin of Economic Research, vol. 57, #2, 205-215. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and Luc SAVARD (2004), Introduction à un numéro spécial MIMAP sur les politiques 

économiques et la pauvreté en Afrique, Revue d’économie du développement, vol. 12, #2, 

5-8. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., Joan ESTEBAN and Debraj RAY (2004), Polarization: Concepts, Measurement, 

Estimation, Econometrica, vol. 72, #6, 1737-1772. 

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ARAAR, A. and J.-Y. DUCLOS, (2003) An Atkinson-Gini family of social evaluation functions, 

Economics Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 19, 1-16. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and P. MAKDISSI (2003), Restricted and unrestricted dominance for welfare, inequality 

and poverty orderings, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 6 , no. 1, 145-164. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., V. JALBERT and A. ARAAR (2003), Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking: 

an Integrated Approach, Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 10, 65-100. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and P. GRÉGOIRE (2002), Absolute and Relative Deprivation and the Measurement 

of Poverty, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 48, no. 4, 471-492. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and Julie Gingras (2000), A Roadmap for Federal Tax Reform, Canadian Tax 

Journal, vol. 48, no. 2, 303-339. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2000), Comments on “Dynamics of Poverty, Inequality, and Economic Wellbeing: 

African Economic Growth in Comparative Perspective” by Gary Fields, Journal of African 

Economies, vol. 9, Supplement 1, June, 79-82. 

DAVIDSON, Russell, and J-Y. DUCLOS (2000), Statistical Inference for Stochastic Dominance and 

for the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality, Econometrica, vol. 68, no. 6, November, 1435-1465. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and P.J. LAMBERT (2000), A Normative and Statistical Approach to Measuring 

Classical Horizontal Inequity, Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 33, no. 1, February, 87-113. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2000), Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income, International Tax and Public 

Finance, vol. 7, 141-162. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and M. MERCADER (1999), Household Needs and Poverty: With Application to 

Spain and the UK, Review of Income and Wealth, Series 45, no. 1, March, 77-98. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1998), Social Evaluation Functions, Economic Isolation, and the Suits Index of 

Progressivity, Journal of Public Economics 1, July, 103-121. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and M. TABI (1998), Inégalité et redistribution du revenu, avec une application au 

Canada, Actualité Économique, vol. 75, no. 1-2-3, 95-122. 

BIBI, S. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (1997), Fiscalité indirecte, subsides à la consommation et équité sociale 

en Tunisie, Annales d’Économie et de Gestion, vol. 4, no. 8, March, 11-46. 

DAVIDSON, R. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (1997), Statistical Inference for the Measurement of the Incidence 

of Taxes and Transfers, Econometrica, vol. 65, no. 6, November, 1453-1465. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1997), Measuring Progressivity and Inequality, Research in Economic Inequality, 

vol. 7, JAI Press, Greenwhich, Connecticut, 19-38. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1997), Estimating and Testing a Model of Welfare Participation: The Case of 

Supplementary Benefits in Britain, Economica, vol.64, no. 253, February, 81-100. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1997), The Asymptotic Distribution of Linear Indices of Inequality, Progressivity 

and Redistribution, Economics Letters, vol.54, no. 1, 51-57. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. et M. TABI (1996), The Measurement of Progressivity, with an Application to 

Canada, Canadian Journal of Economics, Special Issue, Part I, S165-S170, April. 

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DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1995), Modelling the Take-up of State Support, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 

58, no. 3, 391-415, November. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1995), On Equity Aspects of Imperfect Poverty Relief, Review of Income and 

Wealth, Series 41, no. 2, June, 177-190. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1995), Assessing the Performance of an Income Tax, Bulletin of Economic Research, 

vol. 47, no. 2, 115-126. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1993), Progressivity, Redistribution and Equity, with Application to the British 

Tax and Benefit System, Public Finance, vol. 48, no. 3, 350-365. 

Unpublished scientific papers 

BRESSON, Florent and Jean-Yves DUCLOS, Intertemporal Poverty Comparisons, CIRPÉE Working 

Paper # 12-40, 2012. 

CLAVET, Nicholas-James, and J.-Y. DUCLOS, Le financement des services de garde des enfants: 

effets sur le travail, le revenu des familles, et les finances publiques, CIRPÉE Working Paper # 

12-16, 2012. 

COCKBURN, John, Jean-Yves DUCLOS, , and Agnès Zabsonré, Is the value of humanity increasing 

A critical-level enquiry, Working paper I-13, FERDI, October 2011. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and Audrey VERDIER-CHOUCHANE, Analyzing Pro-Poor Growth in Southern 

Africa: Lessons from Mauritius and South Africa, Working Papers Series # 115, African Development 

Bank, Tunis, Tunisia. 

BIBI, S., J.-Y. DUCLOS and Audrey VERDIER-CHOUCHANE, Assessing Absolute and Relative 

Pro-Poor Growth: An Application to the MENA Region, Working Papers Series # 111, African 

Development Bank, Tunis, Tunisia. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., P. MAKDISSI and A. ARAAR, Pro-Poor Tax Reforms, with an Application to 

Mexico, CIRPÉE Working Paper # 10-01, 2010. 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim, Jean-Yves DUCLOS, Mathieu AUDET and Paul MAKDISSI (2007), Has 

Mexican growth been pro-poor, Social Perspectives, 9, #1, March, 17-47. 

AUDET, Mathieu, Paul MAKDISSI, Abdelkrim ARAAR and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2007), Pro-poor 

food taxation and subsidy reforms in Mexico , Social Perspectives, 9, #1, March, 49-64. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2002), Vulnerability and Poverty: Measurement Issues for Public Policy, Social 

Protection Discussion Paper Series # 0230, Human Development Network, The World Bank. 

BLAIS, F. et DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2001), Le revenu de la citoyenneté: Revue des écrits et consultations 

des experts, Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., B. FORTIN, G. LACROIX and H. ROBERGE (1996), La dynamique de la participation 

à l’aide sociale au Québec: 1979-1993, CRÉFA, Department of Economics, Université 

Laval. 

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Other publications and contributions 

CLAVET, Nicholas-James and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2012), How to reform the financing of child 

care in Quebec, CD Howe Institute, Commentary # 355, July. 

CLAVET, N.-J., DUCLOS, J.-Y., FORTIN, B. et S. MARCHAND (2012), Poorer elderly, La Presse, 

29 March 2012. 

CLAVET, N.-J., DUCLOS, J.-Y., FORTIN, B. et S. MARCHAND (2012), Reforming old-age pensions: 

effects on public finances and poverty, Le Soleil, 29 March 2012. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2012), Reforming old-age pensions: effects on public finances and poverty, Blog 

of the Association of Quebec Economists (ASDEQ), 27 March. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2012), What will be the family policy of the new CAQ-ADQ, Blog of the Association 

of Quebec Economists (ASDEQ), 15 February. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2012), What would be the public finance effects of reforming Canada’s Old Age 

Security pensions, Blog of the Association of Quebec Economists (ASDEQ), 7 February. 

CLAVET, N.-J., DUCLOS, J.-Y., FORTIN, B. et S. MARCHAND (2012), Proceed with care: Reforming 

Canada’s Old Age Security System, La Presse, 4 Feburary 2012. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2011), What would be the effects of increasing Quebec’s daycare fees from $7 to 

$10, Blog of the Association of Quebec Economists (ASDEQ), 14 December. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2011), Who gains from subsidized child care, Blog of the Association of Quebec 

Economists (ASDEQ), 16 November. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2011), UNDP’s Multidimensional poverty index, Working document I-11, FERDI. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and Audrey VERDIER-CHOUCHANE (2011), Growth, Poverty and Inequality in 

Mauritius and South Africa, Africa Economic Brief, vol. 2, #3, April. 

BERNARD, Jean-Thomas and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2009), Quebec’s Green Future: The Lowest- 

Cost Route to Greenhouse Gas Reductions, CD Howe Institute Backgrounder # 118, October. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., ARAAR, A., BIBI, S., BLAIS, F., CLAVET, N.-J., FORTIN, B., LACROIX, 

G., LANGLOIS, S., et GARDES, F. (2009), Analyse critique et comparative des programmes et 

politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté au Québec, Final report submitted to FQRSC, Programme 

d’Action concertée sur “La pauvrété et l’exclusion sociale: Analyse critique et comparative des programmes 

et politiques de lutte contre la pauvreté au Québec”, March 2009. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., O’CONNELL, S.A. (2009), Is poverty a binding contraint on growth in sub-saharan 

Africa, Framework paper # GPN-04 (Poverty/Growth Nexus Project), African Economic Research 

Consortium, Nairobi. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. et S. BIBI (2007), Un budget équitable, vraiment, Forum section, 31 May 2007, 

La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., (2005), Comment contrer la pauvreté, Découvrir. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., J. FACAL, C. GODBOUT, R. LACROIX and R. ROYER (2004), Un Québec au 

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travail! Stratégie pour une société plus prospère, Strategic committee on economic development of 

Quebec, La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2003), S’affranchir du dogme du déficit zéro (Élections 2003: s’affranchir du dogme 

du déficit zéro), Forum section, La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2002), Inefficace et inéquitable (La politique familiale au Québec), Forum section, 

La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2002), L’illusion du déséquilibre (L’illusion du déséquilibre fiscal), Forum section, 

La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2002), Une alternative radicale (Une alternative radicale: le revenu de citoyenneté), 

Forum section, La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2001), La croissance protège l’environnement (Le développement économique 

peut-il être bénéfique pour l’environnement), Forum section, La Presse. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2001), Oublions Keynes (Les budgets de l’automne 2001: les risques de 

l’interventionnisme), Forum section, La Presse. 

FORTIN, BERNARD, GUY LACROIX and J.-Y. DUCLOS (1999), L’univers de l’aide sociale: les 

plus démunis peuvent-ils s’en sortir, Recherche Sociale, Bulletin of the Conseil québécois de la 

recherche sociale, volume 6, no. 1, February. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and J. GINGRAS (1999), Mixing it up: Directions for federal tax reform, C.D. 

Howe Institute Commentary 126, Toronto, June. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1992), Freeing up the Labour Market, Basic Income Research Group Bulletin no. 

14, 17-19. 

Book 

JOANIS, M., L. GODBOUT and Jean-Yves DUCLOS (2013), editors, Le Québec économique: le 

point sur les revenus des Québécois, Presses de l’Université Laval. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. and A. ARAAR (2006), Poverty and Equity: Measurement, Policy and Estimation 

with DAD, Springer/Kluwer and IDRC. 

Chapters in books 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., B. FORTIN et S. MARCHAND (2013), Income sources in Quebec: a 2012-2030 

microsimulation exercise, Marcelin Joanis, Luc Godbout and Jean-Yves Duclos, editors, ch. 6 in 

Le Québec économique: le point sur les revenus des Québécois, Presses de l’Université Laval, pp. 

163-192. 

CLAVET, N.-J., J.-Y. DUCLOS, et B. FORTIN (2013), Personal income taxes and social transfers: 

a 2012-2030 microsimulation exercise, Marcelin Joanis, Luc Godbout and Jean-Yves Duclos, editors, 

ch. 2 in Le Québec économique: le point sur les revenus des Québécois, Presses de l’Université Laval, 

pp. 47–80. 

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CLAVET, N.-J., J.-Y. DUCLOS, B. FORTIN et S. MARCHAND (2012), Demographic changes 

in Québec, 2004-2030: a microsimulation analysis, Sylvie Rheault and Jean Poirier, editors, in Le 

vieillissement démographique: de nombreux enjeux à déchiffrer, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 

pp. 15–30. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y.(2011), Methodological issues in comparing poverty across countries, regions and 

time, and possible solutions, Guy Fréchet, Danielle Gauvreau and Jean Poirier, editors, in Social 

Statistics, Poverty, and Social Exclusion, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal, 281– 

284. 

BATANA, Yélé Maweki and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2010), Multidimensional poverty among West African 

children: testing for robust poverty comparisons, John Cockburn and Jane Kabubo-Mariara, editors, 

in Child Welfare in Developing Countries, Springer-IDRC-PEP, New York, 95–122. 

BATANA, Yélé Maweki and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2011), Comparing multidimensional poverty with qualitative 

indicators of well-being, Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber, editors, in The Measurement of 

individual well-being and group inequalities: Essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi, London, Routledge, 

ch. 13, 280-287. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., D. Sahn and S. Younger (2008), Using an Ordinal Approach to Multidimensional 

Poverty Analysis, Jacques Silber and Nanak Kakwani, editors, in Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional 

Poverty Measurement, Palgrave Macmillan, London, chap 14, 244-262. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., (2008), Is the State too generous towards families, Luc Godbout and Suzie St- 

Cerny, editors, in Le Québec, un paradis pour les familles Regards sur la famille et la fiscalité, 

Presses de l’Université Laval, chap. 7. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y.(2007), A Better Income Security System for All Canadians in A Canadian Priorities 

Agenda: Policy Choices to Improve Economic and Social Well-Being, edited by Jeremy Leonard, 

Christopher Ragan, and France St-Hilaire, Institut de Recherche sur les Politiques Publiques, 233- 

266. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., D. Sahn and S. Younger (2007), Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons 

with Discrete Indicators of Well-Being, S. Jenkins and J. Micklewright, editors, in Poverty and 

Inequality Re-examined, Oxford University Press, chap. 9, 185-208. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2007), Vertical and Horizontal Equity, Lawrence Blume and Steven Durlauf, editors, 

in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed, Palgrave Macmillan. 

BIBI, Sami, DUCLOS, J.-Y. (2006), Fiscal reforms and poverty reduction: the case of Tunisia, Fouzi 

Mourji, Bernard Decaluwé, and Patrick Plane, editors, in Le Développement Face à la Pauvreté, 

IDRC, Economica, and AUF, chap.12, June. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., ESTEBAN, Joan, RAY, Debraj (2005), Polarization: concepts, measurement, 

estimation, ed. by Christopher B.Barret, in The Social Economics of Poverty, Routledge, New 

York, chap. 3, 56-105. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., et M. TABI (2000), Inégalité et redistribution du revenu, avec une application 

au Canada, sous la direction de N. Marceau, P. Pestieau et F. Vaillancourt, in Économie Publique, 

Presses HEC — Economica, collection Société Canadienne de Science Économique, Montréal, 95-122. 

DUCLOS, J-Y., B. FORTIN, G. LACROIX and H. ROBERGE (1999), The Dynamics of Welfare 

Participation in Québec, in Women and Work, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic 

Policy, Kingston, Ontario. 

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DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1997), Les tendances et les outils de la redistribution des revenus, ch. 9 in La 

réinvention des institutions et le rôle de l’État, 21st ASDEQ Annual Conference. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1997), On the Efficacy, Efficiency and Equity of State Support in Britain, Meulders, 

Daniele, eds., in Budgetary policy modelling: Public expenditures, London and New York, Routledge, 

chap. 1, 235-261. 

DUCLOS, J.-Y. (1992), Understanding the Take-up of State Benefits Using Micro Data, Paper 

presented at the Conference on “Social Security 50 Years After Beveridge” in York, September; 

volume 6: The Economics of Social Security, 117-134. 

Technological transfer 

DUCLOS, J.-Y., A. ARAAR and C. FORTIN (1998-2004), DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis, 

International Development Research Centre, Government of Canada and CIRPÉE, Université 

Laval, www.mimap.ecn.ulaval.ca. (5500 users). For reviews of this software, see: 

http://w3.ecn.ulaval.ca/ jyves/revised software review zhang.pdf 

Http://w3.ecn.ulaval.ca/ jyves/affaireuniversitaires ca.htm 

Http://w3.ecn.ulaval.ca/ jyves/universityaffaires ca.htm 

ARAAR, A. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2007-), 

http://dasp.ecn.ulaval.ca, 3500 users. 

DASP: Distributive Analysis for Stata Package, 

ARAAR, A. and J.-Y. DUCLOS (2007-), User Manual for DASP: Version 2.1, PEP, CIRPEE, World 

Bank and UNDP. 

Grants 

Granting 

agency 

DFID/UK 

Aid 

Fonds de 

recherche 

du Québec 

– Société et 

culture 

Human 

Resources 

and Skills 

Development 

Canada 

Leader and collaborators 

John Cockburn 

et al. 


François Blais 

Bernard Fortin 

Guy Lacroix 


Charles Bellemare 


Guy Lacroix 

Pierre-Carl Michaud 

Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

8 000 000 2012-2013: 

2 000 000 

2013-2014: 

2 000 000 

2014-2015: 

2 000 000 

2015-2016: 

2 000 000 

199 874 2011-2012: 

99 914 

2012-2103: 

74 970 

2013-2014: 

24 990 

190 000 2011-2012: 

95 000 

2012-2103: 

95 000 

Title 

Building Research 

Capacity in Low 

Income Countries 

through Policy 

Analysis on Growth 

and Employment 

(PAGE) 

A simulation model 

of the economic 

and social costs of 

poverty 

Development of a 

structural and intertemporal 

model 

of labor supply for 

Canada 

14

Granting 

agency 

Human 

Resources 

and Skills 

Development 

Canada 

United 

Nations Development 

Programme 

AUSAID 

FQRSC 

IDRC-CIDA 

United 

Nations Development 

Programme 

Ministère 

de l’emploi 

et de la 

solidarité 

sociale 

FQRSC 




Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

Jean-Yves Duclos 287 609 2011: 

143 805 

2012: 

143 805 


Abdelkrim Araar 

Sami Bibi 

John Cockburn 

Yazid Dissou 

Ismael Fofana 

B. Fortin 

C. Bellemare 

Yann Bramoullé 


Sabine Kroeger 

G. Lacroix 

B. Shearer 

John Cockburn 

Bernard Decaluwé 


Title 

20 000 2010-2012 Sources of retirement 

income in 

Québec, 2004-2030 

: a microsimulation 

analysis 

420 000 2010: 

127 000 

2011: 

133 000 

2012: 

160 000 

394 240 2010-2011: 

98 560 

2011-2012: 

98 560 

2012-2013: 

98 560 

2013-2014: 

98 560 

2 260 290 2007-2008: 

830 444 

2008-2009: 

497 228 

2009-2010: 

574 572 

2010-2011: 

311 497 

2011-2012: 

46 529 

Jean-Yves Duclos 106 952 2009: 

106 952 

Guy Lacroix 


Jean-Yves Duclos et 

al. 

30 000 2009: 

30 000 

1 536 000 2008-2014: 

256 000 

Poverty and social 

impact analysis 

Simulating the distributive 

impacts 

of different growth 

strategies 

Effects of taxation 

and welfare programs 

on economic 

efficiency and distributive 

justice 

Poverty and Economic 

Policy research 

network 

Capacity strengthening 

for poverty 

and social impact 

analysis in 

Sub-Saharan Africa 

Simulation des 

effets d’une reforme 

du régime de soutien 

des revenus 

Centre interuniversitaire 

sur le risque, 

les politiques 

économiques et 

l’emploi (CIRPÉE) 

15

Granting 

agency 


FQRSC Marie-France Raynault 

Nicole Bernier 

Sylvana Côté 


Louise Potvin 

Louise Séguin 

Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

142 500 2007-2008: 

74 800 

2008-2009: 

50 775 

2009-2010: 

16 925 

SSHRC Jean-Yves Duclos 58 421 2009-2010: 

16148 

2010-2011: 

16473 

2011-2012: 

25800 

IDRC 

FQRSC 

FQRSC 

John Cockburn 



Simon Larose 

Claire Deschênes 


Frédéric Guay 

Diane Cyrenne 

Odette Garceau 



Guy Lacroix 

Simon Langlois 


4 000 000 2007-2008: 

1 000 000 

2008-2009: 

1 000 000 

2009-2010: 

1 000 000 

2010-2011: 

1 000 000 

304 778 2008: 

177 107 

2009: 

95 753 

2010: 

31 918 

149 740 2007: 

74 860 

2008: 

56 160 

2009: 

18 720 


19 584 

2006-2007: 

19 747 

2007-2008: 

19 916 

FQRSC 


Charles Bellemare 


Guy Lacroix 

Bruce Shearer 

371 108 2005-2006: 

92 777 

2006-2007: 

92 777 

2007-2008: 

92 777 

2008-2009: 

92 777 

Title 

L’impact des politiques 

de soutien à 

la garde sur la santé 

et le développement 

des enfants d’âge 

préscolaire 

Multidimensional 

analysis of welfare 

and poverty: measure, 

inference and 

applications 


Policy 

research network, 

Phase III 

Perseverance and 

school performance 

in Quebec 

Critical and comparative 

analysis of 

Quebec’s poverty 

alleviation programs 

Statistical and 

normative measurement 

of welfare 

Tax and social programs 

impact on 

economic efficiency 

and distributive 

justice 

16

Granting 

agency 

IDRC 

IDRC 


John Cockburn 



John Cockburn 



Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

3 310 850 2004-2005: 

1 173 780 

2005-2006: 

1 060 525 

2006-2007: 

1 076 545 

1 800 000 2003-2004: 

1 350 000 

2002: 

450 000 


20 734 

2002-2003: 

20 684 

2001-2002: 

20 649 

IDRC/SISERA Jean-Yves Duclos 344 480 2002-2003: 

167 240 

2001-2002: 

167 240 

AERC Jean-Yves Duclos 218 620 2002-2003: 

218 620 

FCAR 

FCAR 

IDRC 



Guy Lacroix 

Bruce Shearer 

M. Van Audenrode 



Guy Lacroix 

Bruce Shearer 

M. Van Audenrode 

B. Decaluwé 

J.-Y. Duclos 

L.-M. Asselin 

282 000 2002-2003: 

94 000 

2001-2002: 

94 000 

2000-2001: 

94 000 

26 776 2002-2003: 

8 925.33 

2001-2002: 

8 925.33 

2000-2001: 

8 925.33 

495 000 2001-2002: 

247 500 

2000-2001: 

247 500 


14 000 

1999-2000: 

14 000 

1998-1999: 

15 000 

CQRS 



50 000 2001-2002: 

25 000 

2000-2001: 

25 000 

Title 


Policy 


Phase II 

Training sessions 

on the analysis of 

poverty in Africa 


Policy 


Phase I 

Measurement 

and alleviation of 

poverty 

Collaborative research 

on poverty, 

Phase II 

Effects of taxation 

and welfare 

programs on the 

economic efficiency 


justice 

Equipment 

Micro Impacts of 

Macro and Adjustment 

Policies, 

Training, Phase 2 

Measurement of 

poverty and horizontal 

equity 

Universal allowance: 

literature 

review and analysis 

17

Granting 

agency 

AERC 

AERC 

FCAR 

IDRC 

IDRCIDRC 



Louis-Marie Asselin 





Guy Lacroix 

Marc Van Audenrode 

B. Decaluwé 

J.-Y. Duclos 

L.-M. Asselin 

B. Decaluwé 

J.-Y. Duclos 

L.-M. Asselin 

Y. Dissou 

Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

75 000 1999-2000: 

45 000 

1998-1999: 

30 000 

60 000 1999-2000: 

30 000 

1998-1999: 

30 000 

164 000 1999-2000: 

48 000 

1998-1999: 

48 000 

1997-1998: 

68 000 

492 850 1999-2000: 

61 424 

1998-1999: 

247 802 

1997-1998: 

183 625 

493 073 1998-1999: 

243 073 

1997-1998: 

250 000 

FCAR Jean-Yves Duclos 47 350 1998-1999: 

14 000 

1997-1998: 

14 000 

1996-1997: 

19 350 

Human 

Resources 

Development 

Canada 

CQRS 

Title 


Collaborative Research 

Project on 

Income Distribution 

and Labour 

Market Issues 

(Cameroon) 

Collaborative Research 

Project on 

Income Distribution 

and Labour 

Market Issues 

(Benin) 

Social policy, behavior 

and individual 

welfare 

Micro-economic 

impacts of macroeconomic 

and 

adjustment policies, 

Training, 

Phase I 

Micro-economic 

impacts of macroeconomic 

and 

adjustment policies 

in Benin and 

Burkina Faso 

Social equity and 

individual behavior 

Jean-Yves Duclos 1 785 1997 Career employment 

program 



Guy Lacroix 

Marc Van Audenrode 

Pierre Lanctôt 

Françoise Tarte 

157 642 1996-1997: 

78 571 

1995-1996: 

79 071 

Measures to decrease 

the dynamic 

poverty effects of 

social dependency 

18

Granting 

agency 

FCAR 

Ministère 

des Finances 

du Québec 




Guy Lacroix 

Nicolas Marceau 



Total ($) 

Annual 

amount ($) 

Title 

150 500 1996-1997: Public policies and 

48 000 individual choices 

1995-1996: in the labor market 

48 000 

1994-1995: 

54 500 

4 000 1996: 4000 Second Meeting 

of the Canadian 

Public Economics 


14 000 

1996-1997: 

14 000 

1997-1998: 

14 000 

Group (CPEG) 

Household behavior 

and social equity in 

Canada and Poland 

CIDA Jean-Yves Duclos 14 464 1994: 14 464 Taxation in Tunisia 

Ministère de Bernard Fortin 165 000 1994-1995: Welfare dynamics 

l’Emploi et Jean-Yves Duclos 

72 000 and employment 

de la Solidarité 

sociale 

93 000 

Guy Lacroix 

1993-1994: programs 

du Québec 

FCAR Bernard Fortin 113 800 1993-1994: Welfare programs, 


39 100 economic efficiency 

Guy Lacroix 



justice 

SSHRC Jean-Yves Duclos 12 000 1993: 12000 Government finance 

M.A. students 

Thesis completed 

MAINVILLE, Lois, “Québec’s family policy: An evaluation using regression discontinuity design”, 

October 2012 (director: Guy Lacroix). 

EL-JABI, Ramy, “The Impact of International Migrant Remittances in the Middle East and North 

Africa”, Maitrise en études internationales de l’Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, 

May 2011. 

DIALLO, Saliou, “Transferts de fonds des migrants : Quel impact sur le développement en Afrique”, 

Maitrise en études internationales de l’Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, October 

2010 (director: Nicole Bousquet). 

DESGAGNÉ, Vincent, “Évaluation du programme d’assurance-emploi”, Maitrise en Administration 

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publique, August 2010. 

CLAVET, Nicholas-James, “Effet sur l’offre de travail et le bien-être de la réforme fiscale de 2008 au 

Québec”, August 2009 (co-director: Bernard Fortin). 

COMTOIS-ROUSSEAU, Émilie, “L’impact de la politique familiale de 1997 sur le choix de localisation 

des ménages québécois”, October 2009 (director: Bernard Fortin). 

SEDDIK FILALI, Mohammed, “L’évolution de l’efficience technique de la production laitière québécoise”, 

January 2008 (director: Bruno Larue). 

GOYETTE, Marc-André, “Évolution de la polarisation au Canada: 1973-2003”, August 2007. 

LEBLANC, Josée, “Santé et conditions de vie dans la France du dix-neuvième siècle”, Honors Prize 

of the Faculty of Social Sciences, August 2007 (co-director: Guy Lacroix). 

TAPÉ, Yagba Bernardin, “Analyse économétrique de l’itinéraire thérapeutique des ménages de Côte 

d’Ivoire”, June 2007 (director: Guy Lacroix). 

BLOUIN, Olivier, “L’impact de la réforme de la politique familiale sur la participation au programme 

d’assistance emploi au Québec”, June 2006 (director: Bernard Fortin). 

GABRIEL, Jean-Simon, “Le financement gouvernemental et l’évaluation des entreprises d’économie 

sociale”, 2005. 

FOURNIER, Andrée-Anne, “L’impact des taxes et des transferts sur les finances des familles au 

Québec”, 2005 (co-director: Bernard Fortin). 

CHAUVETTE, Jean-François, “La pauvreté au Canada”, 2005, (co-director: John Cockburn). 

NDORUHIRWE, Emmanuel, “La pauvreté des enfants en Guinée”, 2005, (co-director: John Cockburn). 

BEAULIEU, Nicolas, “Dynamique de la transmission inter-générationnelle de la dépendance à l’aide 

sociale: une analyse économétrique de durée”. July 2001, (co-director: Bernard Fortin). 

FECTEAU, Steve, “Plans de sondage et estimation de l’erreur échantillonnale des indices de pauvreté 

et d’inégalité: une application pour le Burkina Faso”, August 2001. 

DE LAMIRANDE, Patrick, “Impacts redistributifs de l’instauration d’une allocation universelle au 

Québec: examen de quatre scénarios”, January 2000. 

LAROCHELLE-CÔTÉ, Sébastien, “Statistical inference, poverty and inequality measurement: an 

application of the bootstrap econometric technique and a literature review”, January 2000. 

JALBERT, Vincent, “Inéquité horizontale et reclassement engendrés par l’impôt sur le revenu des 

particuliers et les transferts au Canada”, June 1998, (co-director: Marc Van Audenrode). 

MOREL, Jean-François, “Les prestataires de l’aide sociale et les incitations au travail: le cas des 

États-Unis et du Canada”, (essay), 1998. 

ROULEAU, Manon, “Étude de la transmission intergénérationnelle de l’aide sociale”, March 1998, 

(co-director: Bernard Fortin). 

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BERTRAND, Jean-François, “Perception de l’assurance-chômage et retour au travail”, September 

1998, (co-director: Marc Van Audenrode). 

GRÉGOIRE, Philippe, “Analyse de l’indice de pauvreté de Shorrocks et son application sur des 

données canadiennes”, December 1997, (co-director: Guy Lacroix). 

DOYON, Philippe, “Analyse économique de la répartition des pouvoirs du système fédéral canadien”, 

August 1996. 

MARCEAU, Yves, “Analyse bénéfices-coûts des Jeux Olympiques d’Hiver de Québec 2002”, September 

1996. 

BIBI, Sami, “Fiscalité indirecte, subsides à la consommation et équité sociale en Tunisie”, recipient 

of the best M.A. Thesis Award of the Faculty of Social Sciences, May 1995. 

SOUCY, Christine, “Dynamique de l’aide sociale de 1979 à 1993”, December 1995, (co-director: Guy 

Lacroix). 

ST-PIERRE, Étienne, “Fiscalité et processus de formation et de dissolution des ménages”, August 

1995, (co-director: Nicolas Marceau). 

TABI, Martin, “Impact redistributif de l’impôt et des transferts sur le revenu des particuliers au 

Canada”, January 1995. 

Ongoing 

HORTON, Valérie, “Analyse ex ante d’une réforme du financement des services de garde au Québec”. 

PIEDBOEUF, Étienne, “L’impact du fractionnement des revenus sur le niveau de vies et les comportements 

des familles”. 

ROBITAILLE, Marie-Noëlle, “L’impact du report de l’âge d’admissibilité aux prestations de la 

vieillesse sur les comportements de retraite”. 

MAINVILLE, Lois, “Effets des subventions de garde sur l’utilisation des services de gardes, l’offre 

de travail des mères et le développement des enfants au Québec”. 

WILANE, Momath, “Taxation sur la valeur ajoutée au Sénégal”. 

Ph.D. students 

Thesis completed 

MAMONJIARIS, Tiana, “Three essays on education, emigration and remittances”, December 2011, 

(director: Sylvain Dessy). 

ZABSONRE, Agnès, “Welfare comparisons when populations differ in size”, June 2011, recipient of 

the Gold Medal of the Governor General of Canada, (co-director: John Cockburn). 

21

BATANA, Yélé, “Redistribution et pauvreté: comparaisons multidimensionnelles de bien-être”, June 

2008 (co-director: John Cockburn). 

BIBI, Sami, “Le Ciblage de la Population Pauvre en Tunisie: Fondements Théoriques et Evidence”, 

Ph.D. thesis, Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de Tunis, March 2000 (director: 

Mohamed Goaied). 

MAKDISSI, Paul, “Essais sur la pauvreté”, September 1999, (co-director: Nguyen Manh Hung). 

ARAAR, Abdelkrim, “Le bien-être des ménages et la transition économique en Pologne”, June 1998. 

Ongoing 

HOUSSEINI, Bouba, “Life expectancy, demographic changes and welfare”, recipient of a Dissertation 

Fellowship of the Hewlett Foundation/Institute of International Education, 2011-2013. 

TAPTUE, André-Marie, “Polarization comparisons”. 

SAVADOGO, Aboudrahyme, “Modeling investment in human capital”. 

External training and technical support 

Instructor, “Public policy evaluation of inequality and poverty, with emphasis on tax reforms”, Quito, 

Ecuador, 24-25 October 2011. 

Instructor, UNDP-CBS-PEP-Laval School on Measuring and Comparing Poverty, Swakopmund, 

Namibia, 21-26 Novembre 2011. 

Organizer and instructor, “UNDP-PEP Workshop on Poverty and Social Impact Analysis”, Dakar, 

8-12 June 2010. 

Instructor, “PEP training workshop on Distributive Analysis using DASP”, Dakar, 13 June 2010. 

Instructor, “Workshop on poverty and social impact analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa”, organized by 

UNDP, PEP, Uganda Bureau of Statistics and Economic Policy Research Center, Kampala, 23-27 

November 2010. 

Instructor, “Short course on the measurement of well-being and poverty”, XIX Simposio de Estadistica, 

Medellin, Colombia, 18-19 July 2009. 

Instructor and facilitator, CONEVAL (Government of Mexico) and World Bank Institute, “Clinique 

on Multidimensional Poverty”, Mexico, Mexico, May 21, 2008. 

Instructor, Workshop on Poverty and Distributive Analysis, Central Bureau of Statistics, UNDP 

Namibia, Windhoek, 12-16 May 2008. 

Instructor, Human Development and Capability Association, Summer School on Capability, Poverty 

and Well-being Measurement, New York, 15 September 2007. 

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Instructor, PEP training session on poverty dynamics, Lima, Peru, 9-10 June 2007. 

Instructor, Pro-poor growth, multidimensional poverty and targeting, Workshop of the Inter- 

American Development Bank, 1-3 May 2007. 

Instructor, Poverty and inequality, Workshop of the Conseil national économique et social, Algiers, 

Algeria, 12-15 May 2007. 

Instructor, PEP training session on poverty and equity, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, 16-17 June 2006. 

Instructor, Algerian Finance Ministry, 4-7 April 2005. 

Instructor, Advanced training session on poverty analysis, Dakar, 28 October – 7 November 7 2002. 

Instructor, MIMAP training session on government expenses and poverty, Maroc, Rabat, 1-4 February 

2002. 

Instructor, Training workshop on Measuring poverty and welfare, African Economic Research Consortium, 

Nairobi, Kenya, 21-26 May 2001. 

Invited Professor, Training sessions on comparisons of living standards, Universitat Autònoma de 

Barcelona, Department of Applied Economics, 27-29 March 2001. 

Instructor, Training session on the assessment and alleviation of poverty, IDRC-SISERA-WBI, Accra, 

Ghana, 9-19 January 2001. 

Instructor, Workshop on Poverty Measurement and Safety Nets, World Bank, Washington, 5 December 

2000. 

Instructor, Training session on the assessment and alleviation of poverty, IDRC-SISERA-WBI, 

Dakar, Senegal, 30 October – 11 November 2000. 

Invited Professor, Graduate course (half) in Public Economics, European Doctoral program, Universitat 

Autonoma de Barcelona, Fall 2000. 

Invited Professor, Course on Poverty Analysis, Cornell University, 10 February 2000. 

Instructor, Training session for a Camerounian team, African Economic Research Consortium, Quebec 

City, 4-29 October, 1999. 

Instructor, MIMAP Training session, Quebec City, 30 August – 17 September 1999. 

Instructor, African Economic Research Consortium Training Workshop, Abidjan, Ivory Cost, 6-12 

October 1998. 

Instructor, African Economic Research Consortium Training Workshop, Kampala, Uganda, 6-14 

August 1997. 

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