L'étude utilise les données provenant de 14 des vagues de l'Enquête sociale générale (ESG), réalisée par Statistique Canada auprès des ménages canadiens. Les enquêtes retenues contiennent pour des années de 1986 à 2011 des informations sur le plus haut niveau d'éducation des...

This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...

This paper presents standardised test scores results in literacy from 19 provincial and international surveys in education conducted over years 2000 to 2018. The analysis draws on students in provinces, mainly Québec and Ontario, at three stages of education, grade 4 in primary school, grade 8...

The study is based on 14 waves of Statistics Canada's General Social Survey. The selected surveys conducted between 1986 and 2011 have information on the highest education level of respondents and their parents (father, mother). The analysis estimate the probability that a respondent, from many...

Peu d'études peuvent évaluer les effets de long terme de l'école privée secondaire sur les résultats éducatifs des élèves, tout en contrôlant pour les caractéristiques des élèves et des parents. Au Québec, la deuxième province canadienne la plus populeuse, plus de vingt pourcent...

The role of socio economic background in school attainment is a central issue. Most studies conclude that if socioeconomic background is still strongly associated with school attainment, this association has rather declined among cohorts, including for higher degrees. Opponents of the decline of...

In France, the number of years of schooling is high, and so is spending on education. Over the past thirty years, spending per student has increased, in particular because of the growing importance of the secondary and tertiary levels. What, more generally, is the impact of education on the...

Very few studies analyze the long term educational effects of private secondary school students while controlling for their socioeconomic status. In Quebec, the second most populous Canadian province, twenty percent of students at this level are enrolled in private schools subsidized by the...

La génération montante d’aujourd’hui est la première dont la majorité passe une grande partie de la petite enfance dans un type de structure de garde extérieure au foyer. Parallèlement, la recherche neuroscientifique démontre l’importance capitale, pour tous les aspects du...