Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France ….4% lower due to the regulation, a 2.2% consumption equivalent welfare loss. Four-fifths of this loss is due to lower innovation …

-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … distinct from one another in both Canada and the U.S …

This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall … have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production … production in the U.S., but not in Canada. The cyclical indicator, the adult male unemployment rate, has a weak positive effect …

the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … Canada. Second, large differences in cognitive outcomes exist in all countries between children from disadvantaged … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a … part of the skill distribution where falling skills are most evident. In Canada the cross-cohort declines are especially …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …