Current Activities

• Kathleen Day, Anne Motte and Hanquin (Theresa) Qiu: Who Studies Part-time? An Examination of Canadian Post-secondary Students Aged 18-30
• Torben Drewes: Differences in Grading Standards: Causes and the Impact on PSE Accessibility and Success
• Jorgen Hansen: Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Ability and Educational Attainment in Canada
• Michael Hoy, Louis N. Christofides, Thanasis Stengos, and Zhi (Jane) Li: The Implications of Peer Effects and Parental Influences on University Attendance
• Ross Finnie and David Johnson: The choice to take a Gap Year: evidence from YITS-A
• Felice Martinello: Correlates between students’ persistence in university education and their perceptions of education quality, university services, and university experience.
• Ross Finnie, Richard Mueller and Stephen Childs: The Impact of Household Environment, Family Habits, and Early Behaviours on Access to Post-Secondary Education
• Ross Finnie and Hanquin (Theresa) Qiu: Persistence in Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Background Effects
• Ross Finnie and Richard Mueller: Access to Post-Secondary Education in Canada: Differences Between Provinces
• Ross Finnie, Hanquin (Theresa) Qiu, Alex Usher and Yan Zhang: Access to Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the LAD

The MESA project will be hosting several sessions at the CEA, held in Toronto, to present the latest research in post-secondary education access and persistence:

• Access to Postsecondary Education: Background, Ability and Schooling Effects (Sat, 30 May 16:00 - 17:30)
• Access to PSE: How students get there and what happens when they do (Sun, 31 May 16:00 - 17:30)
• PSE Issues meet natural experiments and administrative data (Sun, 31 May 10:30 - 12:00)