The UK is preparing to start one of the largest random assignment evaluations of a new social policy that has ever been undertaken in Europe or North America. This juncture is a useful time to examine the merits of random assignment evaluation using new results from one-of the most widely cited...

This paper uses variation induced by firm closures to explore the intergenerational effects of worker displacement. Using a Canadian panel of administrative data that follows almost 60,000 father-child pairs from 1978 to 1999 and includes detailed information about the firms at which the father...

Il y a deja plus de 100 ans que le legislateur a rendu l'ecole obligatoire au Canada, et on continue a discuter de politiques de poursuite obligatoire des etudes. On examine dans ce document les effets de ces lois sur le niveau de scolarite et les resultats socio-economiques subsequents des...