Title: Classroom Lesson: Investing In Yourself (Teacher Only)
Course: Indiana Economics Sample Syllabus > Section: Unit 1: Scarcity & Economic Reasoning

Students perform calculations—with half the class given information to make the task easier—to demonstrate the importance of human capital in increasing a person’s productivity. They then look at the wages for various occupations and consider the role of human capital in explaining the differences in those wages.

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