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Research and Data in Education: Enlightening Public Policy

Thursday 30 Oct 2025
From 8:45AM To 4:45PM

CIRANO and CIQSS are organizing a day of discussion on education research and data, bringing together researchers, decision-makers, and practitioners.

The morning session will highlight various education research projects that draw on diverse data sources to help us better understand education issues and inform public policy. The afternoon session will present a variety of data sets from several organizations covering different topics, some of which have not yet been fully explored, in order to broaden our perspectives.

During the day, Marie Connolly (UQAM, CIRANO) will present her research findings on the economic benefits of increasing graduation rates among boys in Quebec, as well as her work on school dropout rates. 

 

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Abran, Evelyne
SPEC Project manager, Fédération des cégeps
Allard, Philippe
General Manager, Regroupement des cégeps de Montréal
Brodeur, Monique
President, Conseil supérieur de l’éducation
Connolly, Marie
CIRANO Researcher and Fellow
Full Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University
Dufour, Genevieve
Director of Major Collaborative Projects
Projects Director
CIRANO
M.Sc., Economic Sciences, Université de Montréal
Dupéré, Véronique
Professor, École de psychoéducation, Université de Montréal
Academic Director, Centre interuniversitaire québécois de statistiques sociales
Gaudreault, Michaël
Teacher and researcher, ÉCOBES du Cégep de Jonquière
Groleau, Amélie
Research Professional, Institut de la statistique du Québec
Haeck, Catherine
CIRANO Researcher and Fellow
Full Professor, École des sciences de la gestion de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM)
Ph.D., Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Lange, Fabian
CIRANO Researcher and Fellow
Professor, McGill University
Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago
Larivière, Jérôme
Student (Ph.D.)
Student (Ph.D.), McGill University
McLachlan, Brennan
Student (Ph.D.)
Student (Ph.D.), McGill University
Saltiel, Fernando
CIRANO Researcher
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland at College Park
St-Denis, Xavier
CIRANO Researcher
Associate Professor, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
Director, Groupe d’étude en statistique sociale (GESS)

Program

8:45 - 9:00
Welcome
9:00 - 9:15
Opening remarks
Genevieve Dufour, Véronique Dupéré
9:15 - 10:00
Research using British Columbia administrative data
10:00 - 10:15
Break
10:15 - 11:00
The influence of grandparents' income on their grandchildren's access to postsecondary education
11:00 - 11:45
Analyzing the transition to college by matching administrative data with QLSCD 1 data
Amélie Groleau
11:45 - 12:15
Discussion period
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 13:30
Higher Council of Education: informing public policy
Monique Brodeur
13:30 - 14:15
Education in Quebec: facts and challenges for human capital development
14:15 - 14:45
The student population survey (SPEC)
Evelyne Abran
14:45 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 15:30
Toward a Montreal Dashboard on the High School–College Transition
Michaël Gaudreault, Philippe Allard
15:30 - 16:00
The education data ecosystem: from origin to impact
Véronique Dupéré
16:00 - 16:30
Discussion period
16:30 - 16:45
Closing remarks

Location


1130 Rue Sherbrooke O #1400, Montréal, QC H3A 2M8, Canada