attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …

This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income from 1920 to 2000 in Canada using personal income … top income shares in Canada and the United States, associated with much more modest marginal tax rate cuts in Canada …, suggests that the upward trend in top shares in Canada since the late 1970s cannot be explained by tax cuts. Further evidence …

This paper attempts to measure and explain recent changes in the distributions of family income in Canada and the U … income increased faster in Canada than in the U.S.. though income inequality increased unambiguously in the U.S., but not in … Canada. Imposing a simple structure on the data reveals that the social welfare implications of these changes are generally …