A variety of policies fall under the banner of "school choice," each aiming to facilitate educational options beyond a standard public school. This paper pursues three empirical questions. First, at what rates do Canadian parents choose various school options and engage in different forms of...

Education policy should be informed by research that distinguishes school-based learning from learning that occurs during non-school time. American studies find that socio-economic disparities in learning tend to widen over the summer months, the longest continuous stretch of non-school time....

Using the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) as an example, we show how Canadian science policy is influencing patterns of stratification both within and between universities. Substantial differences in CFI funding for certain knowledge fields have produced an increasing inequality in the...

Combatting air pollution associated with extensive motor-vehicle use has become a major policy objective for cities around the world. Policy alternatives toward this end can be divided into two categories: incentives (e.g., improved public transportation) and disincentives (e.g.,environmental...