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...

In diesem Jahr hat das ifo Bildungsbarometer zum zweiten Mal die deutsche Bevölkerung nach ihrer Meinung zu bildungspolitischen Themen befragt. Quer durch die Bildungsphasen zeigt sich dabei eine erstaunliche Reformbereitschaft. Es zeigt nicht weniger als zehn bildungspolitische Themen, bei...

The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

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...

The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey experiments in Germany that randomly provide treatment groups with information on current spending...

For school children, the Covid-19 pandemic brought school closures that challenged their learning experiences and social-distancing rules that impeded their peer interactions. Will these experiences have persistent effects on the development of children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills?...

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children's skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic's effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international literature...

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...

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper combines a review of the emerging international...