Dass in Deutschland die Bundesländer für die Bildungspolitik zuständig sind, führt regelmäßig zu Debatten über mangelnde Einheitlichkeit und Vergleichbarkeit in der Bildung. Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2020, unsere jährliche repräsentative Meinungsumfrage, hat die Meinung von über 10 000...

Mit dem Abebben der jüngsten Flüchtlingswelle verschiebt sich der Fokus der Diskussion von Fragen der unmittelbaren Versorgung hin zur Integration der Flüchtlinge. Damit sind Fragen des Bildungsstandes, der sprachlichen und beruflichen Qualifikationen und möglicher bildungspolitischer...

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...

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...

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...

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...