Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find...

Unterschiede in den schulischen Leistungen von Schüler*innen sind bekanntlich eng mit deren zukünftigem individuellem Einkommen sowie dem nationalen Wirtschaftswachstum verbunden. Dieser Beitrag veranschaulicht die große Bedeutung kultureller Unterschiede für die Leistungen von...

Patience and risk-taking - two cultural traits that steer intertemporal decision-making - are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international differences in student achievement, we combine PISA tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find...

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 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 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...