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

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  • Haifeng Zhang
  • Yang Wu
  • Xianguo Yao

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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.

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  • Haifeng Zhang & Yang Wu & Xianguo Yao, 2013. "Does attending a key school have a quality premium? A regression discontinuity analysis," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 20(18), pages 1630-1635, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:20:y:2013:i:18:p:1630-1635
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2013.829194
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