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...

Cette étude a pour but d'identifier les caractéristiques des régions stables dans la performance mesurée par la réussite au BEPC, et tenant compte des ressources qui leur ont été allouées pour leur fonctionnement. La stabilité dans le temps de la performance des établissements est...

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...