Evidence-based education policy needs comprehensive data. Education economists of the Verein für Socialpolitik call for … the implementation of a longitudinal education register in Germany to understand the complex interrelationships of … education systems. The education register should cover all levels of formal education and include data on student performance in …

Investments in education are of great importance for the competitiveness of the German economy. In particular, early … childhood education programs promise high returns - because children can benefit from them even years later and find it easier … to acquire new skills. These are the results of research in the field of the economics of education in recent years, at …

Despite the educational expansion since the 1960s and the rise of the average education level, there has been no … significant decrease in education inequality or in its persistence across generations during the past decades in Germany. This … depressing realisation is not held by all authors; some others identify positive developments in education. The explanation for …

wide range of potentially confounding factors, including maternal education, employment, household income and maternal …

education and care is extremely important for both of these fields of public policy. There is no particular emphasis on early … childhood education and care in the coalition agreement, however, and the educational policy and family policy measures that it …