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Webinar : High School Dropouts in Québec: Results and policy simulation

Monday 8 Nov 2021
From 12PM To 1PM

Christian Belzil, professor at Paris Polytechnic Institute and ENSAE, CIRANO researcher and Fellow presented the highlights of the CIRANO report « High School Dropouts in Québec: Results and policy simulation ». This report was co-authored by Arezoo Banihashem, Department of Economics at Concordia University and CIRANO, Jörgen Hansen, Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Concordia University and CIRANO researcher.

In this report, the researchers analyze the labour market outcomes of high school dropouts in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia and compare them to those who have graduated from high school. Their econometric model helps explain why the proportion of young men without a high school diploma is substantially higher in Quebec than elsewhere in Canada and clarifies the importance of the disincentive effect of social assistance in Quebec.

Christian Belzil

A CIRANO Associate Researcher and Fellow since 1999, Christian Belzil is Professor at Paris Polytechnic Institute and ENSAE.

Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. His areas of specialization are labour economics, Economics of Education, Micro-econometrics and structural behavioral economics. He studies the dynamics of schooling decisions, the effect of higher education financial aid, the importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on life-cycle outcomes, and unemployment insurance and job search behavior. Most of his recent work uses structural microeconometric models.

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