Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2024, unsere jährliche Befragung der erwachsenen deutschen Bevölkerung, lässt erstmals Auswertungen auf Bundeslandebene zu. In Bayern geben 41 % der Be­völkerung den Schulen in ihrem Bundesland die Note 1 oder 2, gefolgt von Hamburg (35 %) und Sachsen (33 %). In...

Immer wieder führten einzelne Unternehmen den technologischen Wandel an und wurden zu Weltmarktführern. Etablierte Unternehmen verschwanden oder mussten sich neu erfinden. Zeitgleich steigen Regionen national, aber auch weltweit auf, andere verlieren im Strukturwandel an Bedeutung. Heute sind...

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...

Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized field experiment issuing vouchers for adult education in Switzerland. We find no significant average...

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...