Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230989 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods No. 2021/4
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn
Abstract: 
How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from the first experiment designed to elicit people's preferences for how to prioritize educational resources, where 2,000 Americans trade off educational resources between quick and slow learners. I find that they give strong priority to slow learners and assign two thirds of the educational resources to this group. Both cost efficiency and the motivation of the learners causally affect the resource allocation. The findings provide important insights for the present policy debate on how to distribute educational resources in society.
Subjects: 
Human capital investment
preferences
inequality
experiment
education
JEL: 
C91
D01
D30
D63
I24
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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