On September 1st, 1997, a new early childhood care and education policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most populous province in Canada. Providers of childcare services licensed by the Department of the Family began offering daycare spaces at the reduced...

On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most populous province in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centres, family-based childcare, and for-profit centres under the agreement)...

The latest international survey in education - PIRLS 2021 - is the first to present an international comparative study of fourth grade students' reading achievement that coincided with the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tests results confirm the general prediction for a majority of...

This study estimates the average multivalued treatment effects (ATET), of preschool attendance measured in years, on students' international reading, math and science test z-scores in Grade 4. The causal treatment effects come from multiple-years observational data on three levels of preschool...

In recent years, issue of automobile insurance has required governments to make fundamental and controversial choices. In Quebec, the 1979 automobile insurance reform introduced a universial no-fault regime. There is no overall assessment of the consequences of this reform. However, an analysis...

From the mid 1980's, the Canadian government froze or cut back the major traditional provisions targeted towards families with children. Faced with the lowest (and declining) fertility rate in Canada, the government of the province of Québec (where the population is mostly French) decided in...

Le développement dans les années récentes, de différentes sources de données individuelles longitudinales a rendu possible la mise en oeuvre de modélisations économétriques des différences de trajectoires individuelles. Les données qui nous intéressent sont celles de l'Enquête...

Recent research suggests that the sex of a child has a large and varied impact on parental behaviours and family outcomes. A general finding emerges from this literature: in terms of family choices (marriage, divorce, fertility) and individual behaviours (work, consumption, and non-market...

In labor economics, an increasing number of assertions are set out in dynamic terms. Ideally, panel data — or, at least, retrospective data — must be used to test these assertions. However, recent studies have shown that data taken from a time series of cross sections can be used to...