Alberta government resource revenues are highly volatile. Adjustment of government spending to shifts in revenues imposes social and economic costs. Using simulations, we find the establishment in the early 1970s of a rule-based Alberta government resource revenue stabilization fund could have...

Health spending, the largest component of provincial government spending, has risen significantly over the past decade. It has been asserted that larger health expenditures have caused provincial governments to spend less on other types of government services. Using a panel of province-level...

The impact on high school enrollment of minimum wages and different types of education spending is examined empirically using Canadian provincial-level data. Increases in the minimum wage are shown to have a significant negative effect on the enrollment rates of 16- and 17-year-old males and...