How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?

Ranveig Falch

No 5/2021, Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: Human capital investment; preferences; inequality; experiment; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 D01 D30 D63 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2021-02-08
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