Replication Data for: How Do People Trade Off Resources Between Quick and Slow Learners?

Data from an experiment run on a general population sample in the US in December 2017 to elicit people's preferences regarding how society should distribute educational resources. Paper abstract: How society invests in human capital is important for economic growth and social welfare. The paper reports from a novel, large-scale experiment with 2,000 Americans, where people choose how to allocate resources between quick and slow learners. The paper finds that people give strong priority to strengthening the human capital of slow learners, and give evidence on the extent to which cost efficiency and the motivation of the learners shape the resource allocation. The findings provide important insights for the present debate on how society should prioritize in educational policy.