Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/123110 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 202
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
What do citizens of the United States and Germany think about their schools and schoolpolicies? This paper offers the first broad comparison of public thinking on education in the twocountries. We carried out opinion surveys of representative samples of the German andAmerican adult populations in 2014 that included experiments in which we provided additionalinformation to randomly selected subgroups. The paper first describes key characteristics of theU.S. and German education systems and then analyzes how information and institutional contextaffect public beliefs in the two countries. Results indicate both similarities and differences in thestructure of American and German public opinion on schools and school policies.
Subjects: 
schools
public opinion
United States
Germany
JEL: 
I20
H52
P51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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