In dieser Dauerbeobachtung des deutschen Bildungssystems führen die Autorinnen und
Autoren die Analyse bekannter Indikatoren mit neuen Akzenten fort. Schwerpunktthema der …

We spend a lot of time arguing about how schools might be improved. But we rarely take a
step back to ask what we as a society should be looking for from education—what exactly …

The negative effects of corruption at the macro level are well-documented. Corruption
reduces economic growth, lowers investment, and erodes trust in government officials …

Using a unique survey of adults in Turkey, we find that an increase in educational
attainment, due to an exogenous secular education reform, decreased women's propensity …

Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper,
we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have …

Education increases political engagement because it bolsters motivations and cognition on
the one hand, and relative resources on the other. However, personality traits have recently …

We document externalities of the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager and the
resultant civic unrest experienced in Ferguson, MO. Difference-in-differences estimates …

This volume offers the first systematic account of how education and science have become
sources of power for the states in international relations and what factors have effected this …

This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by
their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of …

This paper studies the impact of a lottery-based desegregation program that allows minority
students to transfer to seven school districts serving higher-income, predominantly-white …