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Food insecurity—the inadequate access to food due to financial constraints—affects 1 in 6 households in Canada, with serious health implications. Family benefit programs supplementing income have shown potential in mitigating the risk of food insecurity, but there is little understanding of...
The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) developed the Pandemic to Prosperity series. It builds on NCoC’s data infrastructure and advocacy network developed for its national Civic Health Index, with The New Orleans Index, which informed many public and private decisions and actions...
The Education Policy Research Initiative (EPRI), a national research organization based at the University of Ottawa, has used administrative student data held by 14 post-secondary education (PSE) institutions in four different regions of the country linked to tax files at Statistics Canada in order...
This dissertation evaluates the effects of various public policies related to education in Canada. The results indicate that the actions of parents are generally consistent with the procrastination saving model. I estimate that higher matching rates on contributions and lump-sum subsidies increased...