Canada?s Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to estimate the average treatment on the treated effect of private school on the … professional degree program. The econometric estimation of treatment effects is based on a particular entropy balancing algorithm …Very few studies analyze the long-term educational effects of private secondary school attendance while controlling for …

performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and science). Canada is unique by the very large size of students' samples … over the entire achievement distribution (SES gaps over nine deciles) for Canada and across provinces. The third research …

In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada. We use PISA tests scores over 7 …

quality of education? What lessons can we take from British Columbia’s experience with greater school choice? In 2002, British … Columbia implemented a new policy that makes it easier for parents to opt out of their neighbourhood school. Along with the … opportunity to estimate the extent to which increased public school choice affects student achievement, concentrates minority …

compelling. The recent abolition of Grade 13 in Ontario's secondary school system provides a unique opportunity to measure the … benefits of an extra year of high school for high-ability students (those bound for college), rather than dropouts. I present a … main finding is that the estimated return to an extra year of high school in terms of human capital is small for these high …

account current inequalities in education across the country and the impact of school interruptions on the accumulation of … cognitive skills. In this article, we document the evolution of the cognitive skills gap across Canada using PISA data. We use … of inequality of opportunities. Using estimates from the literature on the impact of school closures, we find that the …

-University Research Partnerships (CURP) across Canada. It is based on a series of in-depth interviews conducted with community and … university partners funded by Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The research partnerships represented … documents supplemented by interviews with select award holders across Canada representing the various nationally funded …

use a dynamic structural model and focus on transition paths from school to work for youths in Canada and the U.S. Using …, cognitive abilities seem to be more important in determining youths' educational attainment in the U.S. than in Canada. However … these educational subsidies are smaller in Canada than in the U.S. On the other hand, immigration policies designed to admit …

post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada. The paper first looks at how access by age 21 is related to family background … “cultural” factors are the principal determinants of PSE participation in Canada …

percent). The report card for the provincial school systems might be “making progress, need to do better.” The second and more …-reserve schools across Canada, their overall report card is “inadequate, need to make major improvements.” National averages hide … provincial variations. The six provinces from Quebec to British Columbia are home to almost 90 percent of Canada’s Aboriginal …