the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …

We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled …

approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a "welfare trap" does exist in Canada, but the …