This article presents a first step toward consideration of how tax preferences may affect the progressivity of the Canadian federal personal income tax system at the top end. The authors consider 60 tax expenditures listed by the Department of Finance and use tax filer data to attribute the...

Navigating the Evidence: Communicating Canadian Health Policy in the Media is a compilation of the EvidenceNetwork commentaries published in major newspapers in 2014, written by experts in the health policy field. These Op-Eds highlight the most recent evidence on a wide range of topics,...

Le role de l'innovation technique dans la croissance economique est a la fois une question qui interesse beaucoup la gestion des affaires publiques et un domaine de la theorie economique ou la recherche est active. Or l'elaboration de theories economiques est souvent limitee par des...

Introduction : Le contexte economique actuel oblige tous les partenaires des reseaux de soins de sante, qu'ils soient publics ou prives, a identifier les facteurs qui conditionnent l'utilisation des services de soins de sante. Pour ameliorer notre comprehension des phenomenes qui sous-tendent...

Users of socio-economic statistics typically want more and better information. Often, these needs can be met simply by more extensive data collections, subject to usual concerns over financial costs and survey respondent burdens. Users, particularly for public policy purposes, have also...

A major challenge in the measurement of well-being and progress is to link indicators of high-level societal outcomes with specific policy interventions. This is important not only for better informing the public, but also to provide the means for policy makers and advisors to assess the impacts...