Canadian Public Policy

1975 - 2022

Current editor(s): Prof. Mike Veall

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Volume 48, issue 2, 2022

How Progressive Is the Canadian Personal Income Tax? A Buffett Curve Analysis pp. 211-224

Kevin Milligan

Net Child Care Costs in Canada pp. 225-253

Jennifer Fisher and Jasmin Thomas

The Youngest Bilingual Canadians: Insights from the 2016 Census Regarding Children Aged 0-9 Years pp. 254-266

Esther Schott, Lena V. Kremin and Krista Byers-Heinlein

Cohort Size and Youth Earnings: Evidence from Ontario pp. 267-284

Xian Zhang

Local Determinants of Municipal Public Finance: The Case of Quebec in 2018 pp. 285-303

Cl\'e9ment Carbonnier

A Mechanism for Budgeting Faculty Support Services: Ask the Deans pp. 304-316

Gordon M. Myers

An Introduction to The Impact of Universal Medicare on the Previously Insured Poor and Nonpoor, a Study on the Impact of Medicare in Nova Scotia by Murray G. Brown and Vernon A. Hicks pp. 317-321

Gregory P. Marchildon and Livio Di Matteo

A Machine-Learning Analysis of the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Small Business Owners and Implications for Canadian Government Policy Response pp. 322-342

Diane A. Isabelle, Yu (Jade) Han and Mika Westerlund

Volume 48, issue 1, 2022

A Pervasive Economic Fallacy in Assessing the Cost of Public Funds pp. 1-10

Marcel Boyer

Impacts of an African Swine Fever Outbreak on Ontario’s Pork Industry pp. 11-35

Scott Biden, Alan P. Ker and Stephen Duff

Accounting for the Rising Caesarean Section Rate in Canada: What Are the Roles of Changing Needs, Practices, and Incentives? pp. 36-73

Michael Baker, Maripier Isabelle, Mark Stabile and Sara Allin

Encadrement du bruit environnemental au Canada pp. 74-90

Josée Laplace, Edda Bild, Christopher Trudeua, Maxime Perna, Thomas Dupont and Catherine Guastavino

Skill Mismatch of Indigenous Peoples in Canada: Findings from PIAAC pp. 91-107

Alexander Maslov and Jianwei Zhong

Debt, Financial Vulnerability, and Repayment Behaviour in Older Canadian Households pp. 108-123

Jie Zhou

Is the Unequal COVID–19 Burden in Canada Due to Unequal Levels of Citizen Discipline across Provinces? pp. 124-143

Jean-François Daoust, Éric Bélanger, Ruth Dassonneville, Erick Lachapelle and Richard Nadeau

Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions and Population Mobility on Daily COVID-19 Cases: Evidence from Ontario pp. 144-161

Nathaniel T. Stevens, Anindya Sen, Francis Kiwon, Plinio P. Morita, Stefan H. Steiner and Qihuang Zhang

An Empirical Examination of the Effect of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions on Canadians’ Cross-Border Travel and Canadian Retailers pp. 162-185

Jen Baggs, Loretta Fung and Beverly Lapham

Imagining Resilient Courts: from COVID-19 to the Future of Canada's Court System pp. 186-208

David Matyas, Peter Wills and Barry Dewitt

Volume 47, issue 4, 2021

How Did the Canada Child Benefit Affect Household Spending? pp. 479-496

Paniz Najjarrezaparast and Krishna Pendakur

Estimating the Economic Impacts of Specific Claims Settlements in Canada: The Case of Little Red River Cree Nation pp. 497-509

Omid Mirzaei, David C. Natcher and Eric Micheels

What Happened to the Immigrant Life Satisfaction Gap? pp. 510-522

Frances Woolley

Une évaluation de l’effet du crédit d’impôt pour prolongation de carrière sur l’emploi et le taux d’activité des travailleurs de 60 ans et plus au Québec pp. 523-536

Jean-Michel Cousineau and Pierre Tircher

Economic Inequality and COVID-19 Deaths and Cases in the First Wave: A Cross-Country Analysis pp. 537-553

James Davies

Impact of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade between Canada and the United States pp. 554-572

Miguel Cardoso and Brandon Malloy

Volume 47, issue 3, 2021

A Researcher’s Guide to the Labour Force Survey: Its Evolution and the Choice of Public Use versus Master Files pp. 335-357

Pierre Brochu

Evaluating Foreign Skills: Effects of Credential Assessment on Skilled Immigrants’ Labour Market Performance in Canada pp. 358-372

Rupa Banerjee, Feng Hou, Jeffrey G. Reitz and Tingting Zhang

Student Aid Reforms in Quebec: Is Changing the Clawback Rate Better than Changing the Base Grant? pp. 373-398

Pier-André Bouchard St-Amant and Hugo Morin

Role of Child Care in Creating Inclusive Communities and Access for All pp. 399-409

Tricia van Rhijn, Kathryn Underwood, Elaine Frankel, Donna S. Lero, Karen Spalding, Magdalena Janus, Martha Friendly and Arlene Haché

Assessing the Removal of Regional Health Authorities in Ontario pp. 410-420

Paul Barker

Does the Profit Motive Matter? COVID-19 Prevention and Management in Ontario Long-Term-Care Homes pp. 421-438

Kristen Pue, Daniel Westlake and Alix Jansen

Determinants of Family Stress and Domestic Violence: Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak pp. 439-459

Louis-Philippe Béladn, Abel Brodeur, Joanne Haddad and Derek Mikola

New Insights on the Energy Impacts of Telework in Canada pp. 460-477

Hannah Villeneuve, Ahmed Abdeen, Maya Papineau, Sharane Simon, Cynthia Cruickshank and William O’Brien

Volume 47, issue 2, 2021

Superstar Search: Studying the Current and Potential Populations of Canadian Exporters and Foreign Direct Investors Abroad pp. 158-169

Stephen Tapp and Beiling Yan

Fiscal Impact of Recent Immigrants to Canada pp. 170-179

Constantine Kapsalis

The Impact of Self-Government, Comprehensive Land Claims, and Opt-In Arrangements on Income Inequality in Indigenous Communities in Canada pp. 180-201

Ravi Pendakur Krishna Pendakur

Food Insecurity amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Food Charity, Government Assistance, and Employment pp. 202-230

Fei Men and Valerie Tarasuk

Perceptions of Canadian Federal Policy Responses to COVID-19 among People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions pp. 231-251

David Pettinicchio, Michelle Maroto and Martin Lukk

COVID-19 Health Precautions: Identifying Demographic and Socio-Economic Disparities and Changes over Time pp. 252-264

Anthony Jehn, Matthew Stackhouse and Anna Zajacova

COVID-19 and the Economic Importance of In-Person K–12 Schooling pp. 265-280

David Green, Ali Karimirad, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain and Henry Siu

Predicted Earnings Losses from Graduating during COVID-19 pp. 301-315

Derek Messacar, Tomasz Handler and Marc Frenette

Public Policy in a Time of Crisis: A Framework for Evaluating Canada’s COVID-19 Income Support Programs pp. 316-333

Kourtney Koebel, Dionne Pohler, Rafael Gomez and Akshay Mohan

Volume 47, issue 1, 2021

Material Deprivation: Measuring Poverty by Counting Necessities Households Cannot Afford pp. 1-17

Geranda Notten and Julie Kaplan

Recognizing Indigenous Rights in Canada: Property Rights and Natural Resource Values pp. 18-55

Ian Keay and Cherie Metcalf

Playing with Fire? Household Debt near Retirement in Canada pp. 56-71

Nicolas Bédard and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Stratification in Post-Secondary Education and Self-Rated Health among Canadian Adults pp. 72-87

Anna Zajacova and Anthony Jehn

Trends in Cognitive Skill Inequalities by Socio-Economic Status across Canada pp. 88-116

Catherine Haeck and Pierre Lefebvre

On Reducing the Sexual Assault of Women: What Can Economists Contribute to the Debate? pp. 117-129

Mukesh Eswaran

Volume 46, issue S3, 2020

Estimates of COVID-19 Cases across Four Canadian Provinces pp. S203-S216

David Benatia, Raphaël Godefroy and Joshua Lewis

Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Household Finances in Quebec pp. S217-S235

Bertrand Achou, David Boisclair, Philippe d’Astous, Raquel Fonseca, Franca Glenzer and Pierre-Carl Michaud

Canadian Financial Stress and Macroeconomic Condition pp. S236-S260

Thibaut Duprey

Differential Impacts during COVID-19 in Canada: A Look at Diverse Individuals and Their Businesses pp. S261-S271

Guangying Mo, Wendy Cukier, Akalya Atputharajah, Miki Itano Boase and Henrique Hon

Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy pp. S272-S286

Andrea Doucet, Sophie Mathieu and Lindsey Mckay

Community Engagement in a Time of Confinement pp. S287-S299

Alana Cattapan, Julianne M. Acker-Verney, Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Tammy Findlay and April Mandrona

COVID-19 Blunts Alberta Challenge to Federal–Provincial Income Tax pp. S300-S306

Adil Sayeed

COVID-19’s Limited Impact on Drug Shortages in Canada pp. S307-S312

Étienne Gaudette

Volume 46, issue S2, 2020

COVID-19 and the Gender Employment Gap among Parents of Young Children pp. S89-S101

Yue Qian and Sylvia Fuller

Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020 pp. S102-S118

Stephen R.G. Jones, Fabian Lange, W. Craig Riddell and Casey Warman

Public Responses to Policy Reversals: The Case of Mask Usage in Canada during COVID-19 pp. S119-S126

Anwar Sheluchin, Regan M. Johnston and Clifton van der Linden

Do COVID-19 Policies Affect Mobility Behaviour? Evidence from 75 Canadian and American Cities pp. S127-S144

David Armstrong, Matthew J. Lebo and Jack Lucas

Canadian Electricity Markets during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Initial Assessment pp. S145-S159

Andrew Leach, Nicholas Rivers and Blake Shaffer

Homeless Shelter Flows in Calgary and the Potential Impact of COVID-19 pp. S160-S165

Ali Jadidzadeh and Ronald Kneebone

La pandémie immunise-t-elle les Québécois contre l’impôt ? pp. S166-S181

Luc Godbout, Antoine Genest-Grégoire, Jean-Herman Guay and Anthony Pham

Playbook for Labour Policies for Novel Shocks Such as COVID-19 pp. S182-S191

Morley Gunderson

Automation and Reallocation: Will COVID-19 Usher in the Future of Work? pp. S192-S202

Joel Blit

Volume 46, issue S1, 2020

Radical Incrementalism and Trust in the Citizen: Income Security in Canada in the Time of COVID-19 pp. S1-S18

Jennifer Robson

The Geography of Social Distancing in Canada: Evidence from Facebook pp. S19-S28

Jeff Chan

The Effect of Differences in Treatment of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit across Provincial and Territorial Income Assistance Programs pp. S29-S43

Gillian Petit and Lindsay Tedds

Remote Work and Employment Dynamics under COVID-19: Evidence from Canada pp. S44-S54

Guillermo Gallacher and Iqbal Hossain

Initial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Canadian Labour Market pp. S55-S65

Thomas Lemieux, Kevin Milligan, Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud

Short-Term Effect of COVID-19 on Self-Employed Workers in Canada pp. S66-S81

Louis-Philippe Beland, Oluwatobi Fakorede and Derek Mikola

Pandemic School Closures May Increase Inequality in Test Scores pp. S82-S87

Catherine Haeck and Pierre Lefebvre

Volume 46, issue 2, 2020

Reforming Canada's Disaster Assistance Programs pp. 187-197

James Davies

The Role of Central Banks pp. 198-213

Stephen Williamson

Improvements in Electronic Job Alerts and the Labour Market Experience of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from the Connecting Canadians with Available Jobs Initiative pp. 214-235

Vera Brencic, Julie Dubois and Lucie Morin

Trends in Parental Time Allocated to Child Care: Evidence from Canada, 1986-2010 pp. 236-252

Lan Wei

After-Hours Incentives and Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from Ontario pp. 253-263

Rose Anne Devlin, Koffi Ahoto Kpelitse, Lihua Li, Nirav Mehta and Sisira Sarma

Short-Term Effects of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement on Municipal Procurement in Canada pp. 264-278

Dmitry Lysenko, Elizabeth Schwartz and Saul Schwartz

Do Subnational Agreements Induce Interprovincial Migration? Empirical Evidence from Canada's Aggregate Migration Patterns pp. 279-289

Mustafa Rafat Zaman

The Leadership Legacy of Commission Chairs: Building on and Extending a Comparative Study of Ten Canadian Commissions of Inquiry pp. 290-303

Joe Wallis and Tor Brodtkorb

Volume 46, issue 1, 2020

Reconnecting the Housing Market to the Labour Market: Foreign Ownership and Housing Affordability in Urban Canada pp. 1-22

Joshua C. Gordon

Cost Savings of Housing First in a Non-Experimental Setting pp. 23-36

Ali Jadidzadeh, Nick Falvo and Daniel J. Dutton

A First Look at Ontario's Electric Vehicle Incentive Program: Who Are Ontario's Green Drivers? pp. 37-44

Can Erutku

Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness Pressures: The Case of Cement Trade pp. 45-58

Vincent Thivierge

Environmental Impact of Public Transit: Evidence from a Long Strike in Ottawa pp. 59-72

Vincent Chandler and Nikolas Shymko

Frontier Technologies in Non-Core Automotive Regions: Autonomous Vehicle R&D in Canada pp. 73-93

Greig Mordue and Danish Karmally

A Policy Framework for E-Money pp. 94-106

S. Mohammad R. Davoodalhosseini and Francisco Rivadeneyra

Want to Improve Math Scores? An Empirical Assessment of Recent Policy Interventions in Canada pp. 107-124

Haizhen Mou and Michael M. Atkinson

Relative Academic Achievement of International Students: Evidence from an Ontario University pp. 125-144

Zong Jia Chen and Mikal Skuterud

Parental Employment Effects of Switching from Half-Day to Full-Day Kindergarten: Evidence from Ontario's French Schools pp. 145-174

Elizabeth Dhuey, Jean Eid and Christine Neill

Are Pre-Election Polls More Helpful than Harmful? Evidence from the Canadian Case pp. 175-186

Jean-François Daoust, Claire Durand and André Blais