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

Michael B. Henderson, Philipp Lergetporer, Paul E. Peterson, Katharina Werner, Martin R. West and Ludger Woessmann

No 202, ifo Working Paper Series from ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Abstract: 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 populations in 2014 that included experiments in which we provided additional information to randomly selected subgroups. The paper first describes key characteristics of the U.S. and German education systems and then analyzes how information and institutional context affect public beliefs in the two countries. Results indicate both similarities and differences in the structure of American and German public opinion on schools and school policies.

JEL-codes: H52 I20 P51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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