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...

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...

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

Da gute Bildung die Chance auf wirtschaftlichen Erfolg und gesellschaftliche Teilhabe eröffnet, ist Chancengleichheit im Bildungssystem ein zentraler Ansatzpunkt, um soziale Ungleichheiten zu verringern. Das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2019, unsere jährliche repräsentative Meinungsumfrage von über...

Many important intertemporal decisions, such as investments of firms or households, are made by groups rather than individuals. Little is known what happens to such collective decisions when group members have different incentives for waiting, because the economics literature on group decision...

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...

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...