Il y a un malaise intellectuel qui afflige le côté « demande » en économie des ressources non renouvelables, c’est-à-dire la branche qui vise à relier l’épuisement des stocks globaux à la consommation agrégée. On passe ici en revue les « faits stylisés » de la disciplin...

We examine the effects of organization capital—evident in management quality practices—on firms’ implied cost of equity. We show that superior management practices decrease firms’ cost of equity capital. This novel finding, robust to a battery of sensitivity analyses an...

Four experiments examined Canadian 2-3-year-old children’s (N=224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person’s preferences. Children expected that food preferences would be more likely to...

A good understanding of DNA preservation is critical for authenticating ancient DNA. However, such knowledge is difficult to obtain from empirical data as every site represents a unique burial environment, often resulting in unpredictable DNA recovery rates. This study ...

ABSTRACTSchool fundraising is known to reproduce inequities in schools, yet it remains common practice in Ontario, Canada; findings from a critical policy analysis of an advocacy group’s efforts to change fundraising policy help explain why this is the case. Adopting a ...

Propensity score-based methods have been widely developed to adjust for confounders in observational studies to estimate causal treatment effect for binary treatments. We generalize these causal inference methods to the multi-level treatment case. We review the generali...

ABSTRACTAlthough parent school councils are the archetypal arrangement for engaging parents in school improvement planning, their effectiveness is negligible when it comes to building parents’ capacity for and confidence in educational decision-making. Using Arnstein’s ...