The ifo Education Survey is a representative opinion survey of the German voting-age population on education topics … that has been conducted annually since 2014. It covers public preferences on a wide range of education policy issues … ranging from early childhood education, schools, and apprenticeships to university education and life-long learning. The …

strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality …

Economic research suggests that investments in early education are generally more successful than investments at later … ages. This paper presents a representative survey experiment on education spending in Germany, which exhibits low relative … public spending on early education. Results are consistent with a model of misconceptions: informing randomly selected …

misperceive the performance of their state's education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …

misperceive the performance of their state’s education system. Experimentally providing performance information polarizes citizens …

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative … university education for their children. The latter are more likely to underestimate returns and overestimate costs of university … returns and costs explains educational inequality in Germany. …

on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs … growth and increase inequality. …