What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and school policies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the two countries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German and American adult...

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...

Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2021 hat unter mehr als 4 000 Erwachsenen erfragt, welche bildungspolitischen Maßnahmen sie zur Bewältigung der gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen befürworten, die in der Corona-Pandemie offengelegt wurden. Im ersten Teil geht es um Maßnahmen zur Abmilderung von...

In spring 2020, governments around the globe shut down schools to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus. We argue that low-achieving students may be particularly affected by the lack of educator support during school closures. We collect detailed time-use information on students before...