Do parents alter their investment in their child's human capital in response to changes in school inputs? If they do … children's education. The use of out-of-school suspensions is the novelty of this paper. Out-of-school suspensions are chosen … by the teacher or the principal of the school and not by parents, but they are a consequence of student misbehavior. To …

parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that … extended family relative to the parents increases …

students around year-specific catchment boundaries that cannot be exactly anticipated by parents. I find that attending the …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a …