This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts (NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...

This paper uses data from the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth cohorts (NLSY79 and NLSY97) to estimate changes in the effects of ability and family income on educational attainment for youth in their late teens during the early 1980s and early 2000s. Cognitive ability plays an...

This study uses longitudinal tax data to explore several undocumented aspects regarding the duration of time spent residing in low-income neighbourhoods (residential 'spells'). Although the length of new spells is generally substantial (at least compared with low-income spells), there is quite a...

Jusqu'a maintenant, les discussions portant sur le caractere adequat des pensions des Canadiens ages ont ete fondees sur le taux de diminution du revenu avec l'age, soit le taux de remplacement du revenu ou le ratio du revenu apres la retraite au revenu avant la retraite. Pour utiliser les flux...

Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post-retirement welfare requires a standard against which adequacy...

La presente etude comparative porte sur le role que jouent les antecedents familiaux dans l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires au Canada et aux Etats Unis. Etant donne que les etudes postsecondaires sont financees d'une facon tres differente dans l'un et l'autre pays, les antecedents familiaux...

Dans cette etude, on utilise des donnees fiscales longitudinales pour examiner plusieurs aspects encore non decrits de la duree des periodes de residence dans un quartier a faible revenu. Bien que la longueur des nouvelles periodes de residence dans ces quartiers soit generalement importante (du...