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Canadian policies for families with very young children in international perspective

Phipps, Shelley A. - 2009

Esping-Andersen's 'three worlds' of welfare capitalism. Within Canada, the province of Quebec has recently introduced its own …/parental benefits in some countries, including Canada, mean that the effective replacement rate is lower than the nominal replacement … benefit periods by returning to work part-time while collecting partial benefits; Canada might consider moving in this …

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Fiscal austerity and public investment : is the possible the enemy of the necessary?

Streeck, Wolfgang - 2011

In most rich democracies one finds a tendency for the share in public finance that is available for discretionary spending to shrink. This is because tax revenues do not keep pace with simultaneous increases in fixed expenditures and growing pressures for fiscal consolidation. The present paper...

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Fiscal Austerity and Public Investment : Is the Possible the Enemy of the Necessary?

Streeck, Wolfgang - 2011

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

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How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? : a comparison of 150 interventions using the new learning-adjusted years of schooling metric

Angrist, Noam; Evans, David K.; Filmer, Deon; … - 2020

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How to improve education outcomes most efficiently? : a comparison of 150 interventions using the new learning-adjusted years of schooling metric

Angrist, Noam; Evans, David K.; Filmer, Deon; … - 2020

Many low- and middle-income countries lag far behind high-income countries in educational access and student learning. Limited resources mean that policymakers must make tough choices about which investments to make to improve education. Although hundreds of education interventions have been...

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