Contests are meant to attract the best performers and incentivize high effort, however, they may also attract cheaters who try to win via illicit means which crowds out the best performers. We use a laboratory experiment to explore the role of self-selection in contests with a possibility of...

What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and schoolpolicies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the twocountries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German andAmerican adult populations...

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...

To study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...

The standard assumption of exogenous policy preferences implies that parties set their positions according to their voters' preferences. We investigate the reverse effect: Are the electorates' policy preferences responsive to party positions? In a representative German survey, we inform...

Die #MeToo-Debatte hat Geschlechterthemen verstärkt in die öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit gebracht. Die Grundlagen für die Einstellungen zu Geschlechterthemen und Gleichstellung werden im Kindes- und Jugendalter gelegt. Damit sind Geschlechterdifferenzen auch im Bildungssystem zentrale Themen....

Bisher hat das ifo Bildungsbarometer alljährlich die erwachsene Wahlbevölkerung befragt, welche Meinung sie zu bildungspolitischen Themen hat. In diesem Jahr wurden zusätzlich auch Jugendliche als die aktuellen Nutzer des schulischen Bildungssystems zu ausgewählten Themen befragt. Bei dem...

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...