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HOW MUCH ARE WE WILLING TO CONTRIBUTE FOR BETTER EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES? EVIDENCE FROM A SURVEY EXPERIMENT.

We use a survey experiment on a sample of Argentine households to elicit willingness to contribute toward improving the performance of public school students in international educational assessments. Households are presented with a sequence of bids that they can accept or reject. Information is pres...

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Published in:Economic Inquiry Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 63 - 76
Main Authors: Berlinski, Samuel, Busso, Matias
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2016
Subjects:
Households
Public schools
Educational finance
Research on students
Educational quality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:We use a survey experiment on a sample of Argentine households to elicit willingness to contribute toward improving the performance of public school students in international educational assessments. Households are presented with a sequence of bids that they can accept or reject. Information is presented in vignettes that vary in the proportion of children who benefited from the gains in educational attainment. We find a higher willingness to contribute for larger gains. In total, households would be willing to contribute an additional 12.8% of current educational expenditure to guarantee improved education quality. ( JEL I22, I25, C83, H52)