For several decades after WWII, Swedish education reforms were justified extensively based on democratic and equality … arguments. The Social Democrats, the party in governing power during this era, considered a uniform education system crucial to … being used increasingly rarely to justify general reforms to public primary and secondary education. It is however unknown …

Less than a decade ago, several German states introduced tuition fees for university education. Despite their …

Against the backdrop of a growing national and international accountability movement in education outcomes, this study … measures of public education both across nations and federal states. It implies a potential strategic dilemma where a single …

as those with occupations outside of education, are used to adjust for state household amenity attractiveness. We then … significantly affects the share of education majors that are employed as teachers at the time of the survey. …

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …

. This pattern shows clear political alternatives in education policyacross the German states: the political left classifies …

Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are increasingly prevalent in education as districts seek to close budget gaps by …