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Is Seeing Believing? How Americans and Germans Think about their Schools

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 202

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
National Government Expenditures and Education
Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems
Thema
schools
public opinion
United States
Germany

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Henderson, Michael B.
Lergetporer, Philipp
Peterson, Paul E.
Werner, Katharina
West, Martin R.
Woessmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Henderson, Michael B.
  • Lergetporer, Philipp
  • Peterson, Paul E.
  • Werner, Katharina
  • West, Martin R.
  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2015

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