The gender breakdown in higher education in Canada and other western countries has switched from an imbalance in favour of men to an imbalance in favour of women over the last two decades. Programs to attract women into higher education have worked very well. At the University of Guelph for...

Au Canada et dans d’autres pays occidentaux, la ventilation par sexe dans l’enseignement supérieur est passée d’un déséquilibre en faveur des hommes à un déséquilibre en faveur des femmes. Les programmes visant à attirer les femmes vers l’enseignement supérieur ont été très...

The paper tests Hotelling's prediction that scarcity rent for a nonrenewable resource will rise at the rate of discount in a market equilibrium. We perform the test using data for old-growth timber, a resource that is effectively nonrenewable. In contrast to previous studies, for this resource a...