This paper analyses the national retail sales tax reform proposed in the federal government's June 1987 White Paper on Tax Reform using an applied general equilibrium model of the Quebec economy. The model evaluates the welfare effect and the incidence effects in Quebec of replacing both the...

The purpose of this paper is to examine different types of models dealing with the question of income distribution. These models can be classified into three categories: microsimulation models, computable general equilibrium models and integrated macro-distribution models. In this study, we are...

The purpose of this article is to measure the incidence of child-care financing policies for Quebec families and to evaluate the effects of the 1994 Quebec reform on the type of child care chosen. The reform had two main elements: a substantial increase in financial aid to low-income parents and...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure of unemployment in Quebec, in terms of duration, frequency and concentration. The methodology adopted has been developed by Clark and Summers for the United States, and used by Hasan and De Broucker for Canada. The most striking results are:...

In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds. For each survey, Canadian students placed well above the OECD average and remain among the top performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and...

Québec's students at the secondary level have always been considered as a relatively performing group on the basis of their mean scores in international skills tests (reading, math, sciences) such as PISA, and TIMSS. It is less known that students' performance in private schools, where a...

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...

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...