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 …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades … distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross-sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … Great Recession inequality continued to rise at a slower rate for men and fell slightly for women due to compression at the …

I propose a method to decompose changes in income inequality into the contributions of policy changes, wage rate … apply this method to decompose the increase in income inequality in Germany from 2002 to 2011, a period that saw tax … inequality reducing effect as measured by the Mean Log Deviation and the Gini coefficient. For the Gini, these effects are offset …

, a number of policy improvements on ESA (Education Saving Account) are proposed to encourage parents to learn about their … childs ability. -- Education saving ; search ; learning ; intertemporal consumption ; real option ; dynamic panel …

This paper analyzes higher education funding in Germany from a distributional perspective. For this, I first compare … how individuals of different expected lifetime incomes benefit from higher education funding. I distinguish between …

We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the … staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects …. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced religiosity of …