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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2021
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Working Paper No. 349
Versionsangabe: 
Revised version, April 2021
Verlag: 
University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Zurich
Zusammenfassung: 
Do poor parents respond inefficiently to future returns on investments, even when they would have the financial means to invest optimally? Combining multiple experiments, we document that when parents of high-school students in Brazil are offered the opportunity to invest in an educational program, (1) prior experience with the program closes the gap in willingness to invest between high- and low-SES parents, but (2) financial worries reopen that gap. We show that financial worries lead parents to respond to small but immediate returns as if they were large, and to large but future returns as if they were small.
Schlagwörter: 
Psychology of poverty
attention misallocation
JEL: 
C93
D91
E24
I25
I26
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