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

Haifeng Zhang, Yang Wu and Xianguo Yao

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 20, issue 18, 1630-1635

Abstract: This article investigates the effect of attending a key 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.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.829194

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