We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...

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...

Mentoring programs can strongly improve the transition from school to work for disadvantaged adolescents. Results from our field experiment indicate that a German mentoring program markedly boosts school achievement, patience, and labor-market orientation of students from highly disadvantaged...

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...

We study how beliefs about the automatability of workers' occupation affect labor-market expectations and willingness to participate in further training. In our representative online survey, respondents on average underestimate the automation risk of their occupation, especially those in...

Aufgrund einer umfangreichen Stichprobenziehung erlaubt das ifo Bildungsbarometer 2023 erstmals repräsentative Auswertungen ausgewählter Fragen in sieben deutschen Regionen. Dabei zeigen sich deutliche regionale Unterschiede in der Bewertung der Schulen: In Bayern geben 41 % der Befragten den...

Im ifo Bildungsbarometer 2023 zeigt sich eine deutliche Verschlechterung in der Bewertung der Schulen: Lediglich 27% der Deutschen geben den Schulen in ihrem Bundesland die Note 1 oder 2, 2014 waren es noch 38%. 79% sind der Meinung, dass sich die Schulbildung durch die Corona-Pandemie...

Wir haben die Deutschen befragt, was sie über Bildungsungleichheit in Deutschland und verschiedene Reformvorschläge dazu denken. Deutliche Mehrheiten der Deutschen sehen ein(sehr)ernsthaftes Problem in der Chancenungleichheit zwischen Kindern mit und ohne Migrationshintergrund (62 %) sowie...