Explore:
Inequities in early childhood education and care (ECEC), formal education and youth training.
Test:
Novel solutions to known problems, collaborating with stakeholders.
Create:
Knowledge mobilization tools, including evidence-informed policy.
We draw on multidisciplinary insights from many fields, including economics, applied psychology and human development, and political science. We work with researchers across Canada and abroad to answer questions, develop interventions and mobilize information.
Featured Insight…
The Role of AI in Early Educational Settings : A Systematic Review with a Methodological Exploration of an AI-Assisted Review Workflow
This review looks at how artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in early educational settings to support young children’s development. We found a small but growing body of studies using AI-based activities such as speech recognition systems, robots, adaptive...
Quantitative Analysis and Methods
The Long-Term Effects of Rank in Elementary School
We estimate the long-term consequences of math and reading rank within an elementary school on short and long-term outcomes. We find that higher rank leads to better outcomes. Students ranked at the top in grade 7 perform up to 0.33 standard deviations higher on...
The long-run impacts of parental leave policies on the motherhood penalty: Evidence from Canada
Motherhood affects the earnings of women. But does the type of maternity and parental leave available at the time of first birth matter? This paper addresses this question for lower- to middle-income mothers, using Canadian tax data for the years 1997–2019 and...
Socio-economic Segregation between Schools in Canada
Canada’s level of socio-economic segregation or sorting between schools—the extentto which students of different socio-economic status (SES) attend different schools—is low by international standards. However, this overall level may mask inter-provincialdifferences in...
Intervention Creation and Testing
Examining and Quantifying Variance in Quality Across Three Levels of Assessment in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings
The quality of educator-child interactions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings is associated with a myriad of developmental outcomes for children. Most ECEC quality measures have traditionally been collected at the classroom level. However, research...
Examining the associations between quality of interactions children experience in child care learning environments and their developmental outcomes
Early childhood is a critical developmental period. During this time, children spend significant amounts of time in early childhood education and care (ECEC) learning environments. High-quality ECEC learning environments have been associated with positive...
Beyond Free Play and Physical Activity: Assessing the Quality and Determinants of Outdoor Environments for Children
Access to high quality outdoor environments (OE)s has important implications for children’s developmental outcomes. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings provide an optimal opportunity for children to have access to OEs. The purpose of this study was to...
Designing Effective Policy Responses
Puzzling through a pandemic: theorizing the effect of public puzzling on policy decision making and public trust
To what degree do mass publics learn, such that they can engage in the substantive debates of policy design? And how does the nature of that learning relate to public trust? These questions are both relevant to policy makers and central to the literature on learning,...
Equity in Education Research Digest
In this first issue of our Research Digest, we highlight three different articles and two progress notes, that intersect in the area of education and public policies. For our Research in Progress notes, Mark Ariba describes work he did with Dr. Phil Triadafilopoulos...
Valuing Care: Policies and Practices to Advance an Equitable and High-Quality Care Economy
Care is the invisible infrastructure that sustains our societies and economies. Every one of us has needed care in the past, and all of us will rely on it again as we age. Many also provide care, whether for children, elders, or others in need, often at great personal...
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