PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peter Fredriksson
AU  - Björn Öckert
AU  - Hessel Oosterbeek
TI  - Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.51.4.1114-6779R1
DP  - 2015 Nov 30
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2015/11/20/jhr.51.4.1114-6779R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2015/11/20/jhr.51.4.1114-6779R1.full
AB  - We study differential parental responses to variation in class size induced by a maximum class size rule in Swedish schools. In response to an increase in class size: (i) only high-income parents help their children more with homework; (ii) all parents are more likely to move their child to another school; and (iii) only low-income children find their teachers harder to follow when taught in a larger class. These findings indicate that public and private investments in children are substitutes, and help explain why the negative effect of class size on achievement in our data is concentrated among low-income children.