Publications

On this page you will find the publications of the members of the Research Group on Human Capital. You can also read our Working Papers.

Published articles (since 2008)

• Baylis, P., Beauregard, P.-L., Connolly, M., Fortin, N., Green, D. A., Gutiéreez-Cubillos, P., Gyetvay, S., Haeck, C., Molnár, T. L., Simard-Duplain, G., Sio, H.E., teNyenhuis, M., & Warman, C. (2022). The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks. Canadian Journal of Economics, 55(S1), 172-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12540. Data and code replication package: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/IFTFY5
• Beauregard, Pierre-Loup, Connolly, Marie, Haeck, Catherine and Molnár, Timea L. (2022), Primary School Reopenings and Parental Work, Canadian Journal of Economics, 55(S1), 248-281. http://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12566. Data and code replication package: https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/GRMFHU
• Larose, M.P., Haeck, C., Ouellet-Morin, I., Barker, E.D., et Côté, S.M. (2021). Childcare Attendance and Academic Achievement at Age 16 years. JAMA Pediatrics, 175(9), 939-946. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.1192
• Connolly, M., Haeck, C. & Laliberté, J.W. (2022), Parental Education and the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations, in R. Chetty, J.N. Friedman, J.C. Gornick, B. Johnson & A. Kennickell (Eds.), Measuring and Understanding the Distribution and Intra/Inter-Generational Mobility of Income and Wealth, (p. 289–316). National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Catherine Haeck, & Pierre Lefebvre (2021), Trends in cognitive skills inequalities by socioeconomic status across Canada, Canadian Public Policy, 47(1), 88-116. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2019-039
• Haeck, Catherine et Connolly, Marie (2021), “L’accessibilité aux données des administration publiques“, in N. de Marcellis-Warin et B. Dostie (dir.), Québec économique 9, (chapter 10, p. 269-283), Québec : CIRANO (in French).
• Connolly, M., Haeck, C. et Lapierre, D. (2021). Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility and Income Inequality in Canada. Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series, (458), Catalogue no. 11F0019M (Statistics Canada, February 2021). https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/11F0019M2021001.
• Lefebvre, Pierre et Merrigan Philip (2020), « Les inégalités provinciales aux tests internationaux-nationaux de littératie: Québec, Ontario et autres provinces canadiennes 1993-2018 », L’Actualité Économique: Revue d’analyse économique, 96(3), 295-383.
• Haeck, C., & Lefebvre, P. (2020), Pandemic School Closures May Increase Inequality in Test Scores, Canadian Public Policy, 46(S1), S82-S87. Additional material.
• Haeck, Catherine, Giulia Meloni and Jo Swinnen (2019), “The Value of Terroir: A Historical Analysis of the Bordeaux and Champagne Geographical Indications”, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 41(4):598-619.
• Connolly, Marie, Catherine Haeck and Miles Corak (2019), Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States. Journal of Labor Economics, 37(S2), S595-S641.
• Haeck, Catherine, Samuel Paré, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2019), “Paid Parental Leave: Leaner Might Be Better,” Canadian Public Policy, 45(2): 212-238.
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2018), “La contribution de l’école privée au Québec à la littéracie et à la numéracie des 15 ans : une analyse par effets de traitement,” L’Actualité Économique : Revue d’analyse économique, 94(2): 123-174.
• Canelas, Carla, François Gardes, Philip Merrigan and Sylvia Salazar (2018), “Are Time and Money Equally Substitutable for All Commodity Groups in the Household’s Domestic Production?,” Review of the Economics of the Household, 17(1): 267-285.
• Connolly, M. (2018), “Climate Change and the Allocation of Time,” IZA World of Labor, 2018 (417). DOI 10.15185/izawol.417.
• Connolly, Marie and Haeck, Catherine (2018), “Taille des classes et résultats scolaires : un effet hétérogène,” In M. Joanis and C. Montmarquette (eds.), Québec économique 7, (chapter 9, p. 237-264). Québec : Les presses de l’Université Laval (in French).
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2018), “L’école privée : des contributions ignorées et méconnues au capital de connaissances et des leçons pour la réussite scolaire,” In M. Joanis and C. Montmarquette (eds.), Québec économique 7, (chapter 10, p. 265-298). Québec : Les presses de l’Université Laval (in French).
• Haeck, Catherine, Laëtitia Lebihan and Philip Merrigan (2018), “Universal childcare and long-term effects on child well-being: Evidence from Canada,” Journal of Human Capital, 12(1), 38-98.
• Lawson, Nicholas and Dean Spears (2018), “Optimal Population and Exhaustible Resource Constraints,” Journal of Population Economics, 31(1): 295-335.
• Stanford RH, Nag A, Mapel DW, Lee TA, Rosiello R, Vekeman F, Gauthier-Loiselle M, Duh MS, Merrigan JF Philip, Schatz M., (2018), “Claims-based Risk Model for First Severe COPD Exacerbation,” American Journal of Managed Care, 4(2): 294-302.
• Lawson, Nicholas (2017), “Liquidity Constraints, Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Tuition Subsidies,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9 (4): 313-343.
• Lawson, Nicholas (2017), “Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 9(4): 281-312.
• Connolly, Marie (2016). [Review of the book Music and Capitalism: A History of the Present, by T. D. Taylor], Journal of Economic Literature, 54(4): 1406-1408.
• Connolly, Marie, Jérôme Dupras and Charles Séguin (2016), “An Economic Perspective on Rock Concerts and Climate Change: Should Carbon Offsets Compensating Emissions be Included in the Ticket Price?,” Journal of Cultural Economics, 40(1): 101-126.
• Goldin, Jacob and Nicholas Lawson (2016): “Defaults, Mandates, and Taxes: Policy Design with Active and Passive Decision-Makers,” American Law and Economics Review, 18(2): 438-462.
• Haeck, Catherine and Pierre Lefebvre (2016), “A Simple Recipe: the Effect of a Prenatal Nutrition Program on Child Health at Birth,” Labour Economics, 41: 77-89.
• Lawson, Nicholas and Dean Spears (2016): “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Poorer: Adult Wages and Early-Life Mortality in India,” Economics & Human Biology, 21: 1-16.
• Stanford RH, Nag A, Mapel DW, Lee TA, Rosiello R, Vekeman F, Gauthier-Loiselle M, Duh MS, Merrigan JF Philip, Schatz M., (2016), “Validation of a New Risk Measure for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Using Health Insurance Claims Data,” Annals of the American Thoracic Society, Jul. 13(7): 1067-75.
• Boudarbat, Brahim and Marie Connolly (2015), “Pourquoi le taux de chômage des immigrants est-il plus élevé au Québec qu’en Colombie-Britannique ?,” in Sébastien Arcand and Annick Germain (eds.), Travailler et cohabiter : au-delà de l’intégration, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, Collection population et société (in French).
• Connolly, Marie and Catherine Haeck (2015), “Are Child Care Subsidies Good for Parental Well-Being? Empirical Evidence from Three Countries,” CESifo DICE Report, 13(1): 9-15.
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2015), “Canadian Evidence on Ten Years of Universal Preschool Policies: The Good and the Bad,” Labour Economics, 36, 137-157.
• Lawson, Nicholas (2015), “Social Program Substitution and Optimal Policy,” Labour Economics, 37: 13-27.
• Connolly, Marie (2014), “The Changing Time Use of U.S. Welfare Recipients between 1992 and 2005,” Research in Labor Economics, 40: 223-255.
• Connolly, Marie (2014), “Weather Effects,” in Alex C. Michalos (dir.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, Springer Reference.
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2014), “The Distributional Impacts of a Universal School Reform on Mathematical Achievements: A Natural Experiment from Canada,” Economics of Education Review, 41(August 2014): 137-160.
• Brodeur, Abel and Marie Connolly (2013), “Do Higher Child Care Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Quebec’s Family Policies,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 93(2013): 1-16.
• Boudarbat, Brahim and Marie Connolly (2013), “The Gender Wage Gap among Recent Postsecondary Graduates in Canada: A Distributional Approach,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 46(3): 1037-1065.
• Connolly, Marie (2013), “Some Like It Mild and Not Too Wet : The Influence of Weather on Subjective Well-Being,” Journal of Happiness Studies, 14(2): 457-473.
• Bourbeau, Emmanuelle, Lefebvre, Pierre and Merrigan, Philip (2012), “The Evolution of the returns to Education for the 21 to 35 year-olds in Canada and across Provinces: Results from the 1991-2006 Canadian Analytic Censuses Files,” Canadian Public Policy, 38 (4): 531—549.
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud (2012), “L’évolution récente des comportements de retraite au Canada,” In: RHEAULT, Sylvie and Jean POIRIER, Le vieillissement démographique: de nombreux enjeux à déchiffrer, Québec, Actes du colloque ACFAS sur le vieillissement, Institut de la statistique du Québec, 45-56.
• Haeck, Catherine and Frank Verboven (2012), “The Internal Economics of a University: Evidence from Personnel Data,” Journal of Labor Economics, 30(3): 591-626.
• Lawson, Nicholas (2011), “Is Collective Bargaining Pareto Efficient? ,” A Survey of the Literature», Journal of Labor Research, 32(3): 282-304.
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Matthieu Verstraete (2011), “Public Subsidies to Private Schools Do Make a Difference for Achievement in Mathematics: Longitudinal Evidence from Canada,” Economics of Education Review, 30(1): 79-98.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Philip Merrigan (2010), “The Impact of Family Background, Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability in Childhood on Post-Secondary Education Attendance: Evidence from the NLSCY,” In: Pursuing Higher Education in Canada, Economic, Social and Policy Dimensions (R. Finnie, M. Frenette, R. Mueller and A. Sweetman, eds.), McGill-Queen’s University Press, 219-242.
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Matthieu Verstraete (2009), “Dynamic Labour Supply Effects of Childcare Subsidies: Evidence from a Canadian Natural Experiment on Low-Fee Universal Child Care,” Labour Economics, 16(5): 490-502.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Philip Merrigan (2008) “Child‐care Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: A Natural Experiment from Canada,” Journal of Labor Economics, 26(3): 519-548.
• Gardes, François and Philip Merrigan (2008), “Individual Needs and Social Pressure: Evidence on the Easterlin Hypothesis using Repeated Cross-section Surveys of Canadian Households,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 66(3): 582-596.
• Connolly, Marie (2008), “Here Comes the Rain Again : Weather and the Intertemporal Substitution of Leisure,” Journal of Labor Economics, 26(1): 73-100.

Working papers and current research

• Munteanu, Andrei (2024), “School Choice, Student Sorting and Academic Performance,” Working Paper 24-03, Research Group on Human Capital, January 2024.
• Galama, Titus, Munteanu, Andrei, & Thom, Kevin (2024), “Intergenerational Persistence in the Effects of Compulsory Schooling in the U.S.,” Working Paper 24-02, Research Group on Human Capital, January 2024.
• Lawson, Nicholas (2024), “Discrimination and the Fiscal Benefits of Immigration,” Working Paper 24-01, Research Group on Human Capital, January 2024.
• Lefebvre, Pierre, & Merrigan, Philip (2023), “Enseignements du PIRLS-2021 sur la littéracie en lecture des élèves de 4^e année : Comparaisons Québec, trois provinces canadiennes, six pays européens“, Working Paper 23-04, Research Group on Human Capital, November 2023 (in French).
• Connolly, Marie, Haeck, Catherine, & Le Bourdais-Coffey, Anne Mei (2023), “Age at Immigration and the Intergenerational Income Mobility of the 1.5 Generation,” Working Paper 23-03, Research Group on Human Capital, May 2023.
• Connolly, Marie, Fontaine, Marie Mélanie, & Haeck, Catherine (2023), “Child Penalties in Canada,” Working Paper 23-02, Research Group on Human Capital, April 2023.
• Felteau, Claude, & Lefebvre, Pierre (2023), “Can universal preschool education intensities counterbalance parental socioeconomic gradients? Repeated international evidence from Fourth graders skills achievement,” Working Paper 23-01, Research Group on Human Capital, February 2023.
• Haeck, Catherine, Lawson, Nicholas, and Poirier, Krystel (2022), “Estimating consumer preferences for different beverages using the BLP approach,” Working Paper 22-01, Research Group on Human Capital, March 2022.
• Lefebvre, Pierre & Merrigan, Philip (2021), “Why Subsidize Independent Schools? Estimating the Effect of a Unique Canadian Schooling Model on Educational Attainment“, Working Paper 21-01, Research Group on Human Capital, April 2021.
• Connolly, Marie, & Catherine Haeck (2020), “Nonlinear Class Size Effects on Cognitive and Noncognitive Development of Young Children,” Working Paper 18-01, Research Group on Human Capital, December 2020 (revised version).
• Lefebvre, Pierre, & Philip Merrigan (2020), “Les inégalités provinciales aux tests internationaux-nationaux de littéracie : Québec, Ontario et autres provinces canadiennes 1993-2018,” Working Paper 20-02, Research Group on Human Capital, October 2020 (revised version, in French).
• Pierre-Loup Beauregard, Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck, & Tímea Laura Molnár (2020), “Primary School Reopenings and Parental Work,” Working Paper 20-06, Research Group on Human Capital, August 2020.
• Marie Connolly, Catherine Haeck, & Jean-William Laliberté (2020), “Parental Education and the Rising Transmission of Income between Generations,” Working Paper 20-05, Research Group on Human Capital, June 2020.
• Catherine Haeck, & Pierre Lefebvre (2020), “Trends in cognitive skills inequalities by socioeconomic status across Canada,” Working Paper 20-04, Research Group on Human Capital, May 2020.
• Catherine Haeck, & Pierre Lefebvre (2020), “Pandemic School Closures May Increase Inequality in Test Scores,” Working Paper 20-03, Research Group on Human Capital, June 2020 (forthcoming, Canadian Public Policy). Supplementary material available here.
• Garon, Jean-Denis, Catherine Haeck, & Simon Bourassa-Viau (2020), “Going Back to School Takes Time: Evidence from a Negative Trade Shock,” Working Paper 20-01, Research Group on Human Capital, January 2020.
• Haeck, Catherine & Marie Connolly (2019), “Point de vue sur l’accessibilité aux données des administrations publiques,” Working Paper 19-04, Research Group on Human Capital, December 2019 (in French).
• Langlois Simon, Leblond-Létourneau Martin, Lefebvre Pierre, and Merrigan Philip (2019). “Une analyse de long terme des inégalités et de la mobilité socio-économiques par cohorte de naissance et selon le revenu et la consommation des familles économiques et selon l’éducation des parents : 1965-2015,” Rapport de recherche, Programme des actions concertées, Pauvreté et exclusion sociale-Phase 3, FRQSC.
• Lefebvre, Pierre et Merrigan, Philip (2019), “Les inégalités dans les résultats de tests d’aptitudes internationaux: Québec et les autres provinces canadiennes 2000-2016,” June 2019.
• Connolly, Marie, Catherine Haeck, & David Lapierre (2019), “Social Mobility Trends in Canada: Going up the Great Gatsby Curve,” Working Paper No. 19-03, Research Group on Human Capital, May 2019 (revised version).
• Connolly, Marie, Miles Corak, & Catherine Haeck (2019), “Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States,” Working Paper No. 19-02, Research Group on Human Capital, April 2019.
• Haeck, Catherine, Samuel Paré, Pierre Lefebvre et Philip Merrigan (2019), “Paid Parental Leave: Leaner Might Be Better,” Working Paper 19-01, Research Group on Human Capital, March 2019.
• Haeck, Catherine, Giulia Meloni and Jo Swinnen (2019), “Appellations of Origin and the price of wine: Evidence from 1875 to 1938 in France,” Working paper AAWE_WP234.
• Leblond-Létourneau, Martin, Pierre Lefebvre, & Philip Merrigan (2018), “L’héritage de l’éducation sur 25 ans : Une comparaison des tendances au Québec et dans le reste du Canada,” Working Paper 18-02, Research Group on Human Capital, November 2018 (in French).
• Connolly, M., and Haeck, C. (2018), “Le lien entre la taille des classes et les compétences cognitives et non cognitives,” Project report 2018RP-18, Cirano, May 2018 (in French).
• Connolly, M., Haeck, C., and Fontaine, M. M. (2018), “État des lieux sur les écarts de revenus entre les parents et les femmes et hommes sans enfant au Québec et dans le reste du Canada,” Project Report 2018RP-07, Cirano, March 2018 (in French).
• Gardes, François, and Philip Merrigan (2018), “Revisiting an important Canadian natural experiment with new methods: an evaluation of the impact of the 1994 tax decrease on smoking,”  Annales d’économie et de statistiques.
• Haeck, Catherine, Laëticia Lebihan, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2018), “Childcare and parental behavior and well-being during childhood.”
• Haeck, Catherine, Laëtitia Lebihan, & Philip Merrigan (2018), “Universal childcare and long-term effects on child well-being: Evidence from Canada,” Working Paper No. 15-02, Research Group on Human Capital, (first version July 2015).
• Haeck, C., Lefebvre, P., and Merrigan P. (2018), “Maternal Health and Maternity Leave: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Two Canadian Reforms using Health Administrative Data,” Working paper.
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan and David Lapierre (2018), “Evidence on the Impact of a Major Canadian Public Expansion of Parental Leave on the Health of Mothers: A Regression Discontinuity Approach.”
• Thu Nguyen Thi Hong and Pierre Lefebvre (2018), “Quantifying Viêt Nàm students’ achievements participating in PISA 2012 and 2015: Assessments by socio-economic status across gender, region and area.”
• Lapierre, David, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2017), “Long Term Educational Attainment of Private High School Students in Québec: Estimates of Treatment Effects from Longitudinal Data,” Working Paper 16-02, Research Group on Human Capital, December 2017 (revised version).
• Deschamps, J. and Haeck, C. (2017), “Le suivi OLO, un soutien vital pour les bébés, rentable pour la société,” Gynobilis – Bulletin de l’Association des obstétriciens et gynécologues du Québec, vol. 18 no 1 (in French).
• Quesnel-Vallée, A., Haeck, C., Connolly, M., Fortin, P., Lefebvre, P., and Merrigan, P. (2017), “Priorité à la qualité et à l’équité dans les services de garde éducatifs à l’enfance,” Le Devoir (in French).
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2017), “Analyse avantages-coûts des traverses opérées et en partenariat de la Société des traversiers du Québec et des options stratégiques,” published by Société des traversiers du Québec (in French).
• Boulanger, S., Côté-Sergent, A., Haeck, C. and Michaud, P.C. (2016), “Étude des bénéfices économiques de Québec en forme,” Project report 2016RP-12, Cirano (in French).
• Haeck, Catherine and Pierre Lefebvre (2016), “A Simple Recipe: the Effect of a Prenatal Nutrition Program on Child Health at Birth,” Working Paper  14-01, Research Group on Human Capital, May 2016 2016 (published in Labour Economics).
• Haeck, C., Lefebvre, P., and Merrigan P. (2016), “Inégalités de santé et de bien-être à la naissance et durant l’enfance : conséquences et impacts atténuateurs de certaines politiques sociales sur celles-ci,” Working paper for le Fonds de recherche société et culture du Québec (in French).
• Quesnel-Vallée, A., Connolly, M. and Haeck, C. (2016), “Inégalités de revenu et santé : dans la tête ou dans les poches ?,” Policy Options Politiques, Institut de recherche en politiques publiques, june 20, 2016.
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2016), “Socioeconomic Gradient Literacy and Numeracy Skills of 15-year-olds across Canadian Provinces and Years using the PISA Surveys (2000-2012),” Working Paper 16-03, Research Group on Human Capital, December 2016.
• Lapierre, David, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2016), “Les résultats éducatifs de long terme des élèves de l’école secondaire privée au Québec : une évaluation des effets de traitement avec données longitudinales,” Working Paper 16-01, Research Group on Human Capital, August 2016 (in French).
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2016), “La contribution de l’école privée au Québec à la littératie et à la numératie des 15 ans : une analyse par effets de traitement,” Working paper 15-03, Research Group on Human Capital, september 2016 (in French-revised version).
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre, Philip Merrigan, and David Lapierre (2016), “Evidence on Maternal Health from Two Large Canadian Parental Leave Expansions: When is Enough Too Much?,” Working Paper No. 14-02, Research Group on Human Capital, December 2016 (revised version–first version circulated under different title).
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2016), “La politique des services de garde à contribution réduite (SGCR): retombées probantes, faiblesses et pistes d’améliorations,” Mémoire, Commission Petite Enfance, Institut du Nouveau Monde (in French).
• Lapierre, David, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2016), “Les résultats éducatifs de long terme des élèves de l’école secondaire privée au Québec : une évaluation des effets de traitement avec données longitudinales” (in French).
• Haeck, Catherine (2015), “Connecting the Dots: The Early Impacts of Increased Paid Maternity Leave on Child Development,” Working Paper No. 15-01, Research Group on Human Capital, February 2015 (First version June 2012).
• Lebihan, Laëtitia, Catherine Haeck, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2015), “Universal Childcare and Longer-Run Effects on Parental Health and Behaviors: Evidence from a Canadian Universal Child Care Program,” Working Paper 15-04, Research Group on Human Capital, November 2015.
• Lefebvre, Pierre (2015), “Analyse des impacts économiques potentiels sur le nautisme et les marinas des bas niveaux d’eaux sur le Saint-Laurent sur l’horizon 2060,” Report for la Chaire de tourisme Transat au Consortium Ouranos, 111p (in French).
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2014), “The Power of the Purse: New Evidence on the Distribution of Income and Expenditures within the Family from a Canadian Experiment,” Working Paper 14-15, Cirpée, March 2014.
• Haeck, Catherine and Pierre Lefebvre (2014), “One Basket, Twice the Gains: Estimating the Effect of a Prenatal Nutrition Program on Child Health at Birth in Canada,” Working paper 1, Research Group on Human Capital, october 2014.
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2013), “Canadian Evidence on Ten Years of Universal Preschool Policies: The Good and the Bad,” Working Paper 13-34, Cirpée, September 2013.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Merrigan, Philip (2013), “Nouvelles simulations des effets d’une hausse des seuils d’admissibilité sur les demandes et les dépenses de l’Aide juridique au Québec,” Working paper for Barreau du Québec, february 2013 (in French).
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud (2013), “Les comportements récents de retraite au Canada,” dans Le vieillissement démographique: de nombreux enjeux à déchiffrer, RHEAULT, Sylvie and Jean POIRIER éditeurs. Actes du colloque ACFAS sur le vieillissement, Institut de la statistique du Québec, Québec, 45-56 (in French).
• Bourbeau, Emmanuelle, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2012), “The Evolution of the returns to Education for the 21 to 35 year-olds in Canada and across Provinces: Results from the 1991-2006 Canadian Analytic Censuses Files,” Canadian Public Policy, 38(4): 531-549.DR/WP, UQAM/ Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation.
• Haeck, Catherine, Pierre Lefebvre and Philip Merrigan (2012), “The Distributional Impacts of a Universal School Reform on Mathematical Achievements: a Natural Experiment from Canada,” Working Paper 11-35, Cirpée, first version November 2011, revised version April 2012.
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Pierre-Carl Michaud (2011), “The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada,” Working Paper 11-26, Cirpée, September 2011 (also available as SEDAP Research Paper 287 and IZA DP 5979).
• Lefebvre, Pierre, Philip Merrigan and Francis Roy-Desrosiers (2011), “Québec’s Childcare Universal Low Fees Policy 10 Years After: Effects, Costs and Benefits,”  Working Paper 11-01, Cirpée, January 2011.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Philip Merrigan (2010), “Labour Outcomes of Graduates and Dropouts of High School and Post-secondary Education: Evidence for Canadian 24- to 26-year-olds in 2005,” Working Paper 10-45, Cirpée, November 2010.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Philip Merrigan (2010), “Gender Gap in Dropping out of High School: Evidence from the Canadian NLSCY Youth,” Working Paper 10-44, Cirpée, November 2010.
• Lefebvre, Pierre and Philip Merrigan (2010), “Childcare in Canada: Characteristics of Use and Users from the SLID, NLSCY, SHS, and GSS Surveys,” Report prepared for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, June 2010.