Does attending a key school have a quality premium? A regression discontinuity analysis

This article investigates the effect of attending a <italic>key</italic> high school using unique administrative data collected from China. We employ regression discontinuity design to mitigate selection bias arising from unobservable individual ability. Our results show that attending a key high school has a positive effect on student's college entrance examination score. The results are robust to various robustness checks.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Zhang, Haifeng ; Wu, Yang ; Yao, Xianguo
Published in:	Applied Economics Letters. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1350-4851. - Vol. 20.2013, 18, p. 1630-1635
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis Journals

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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