TY - BOOK AU - ZHANG, Haifeng AU - WU, Yang AU - YAO, Xianguo TI - Does attending a key school have a quality premium? A regression discontinuity analysis PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Taylor & Francis KW - key school KW - school quality KW - student achievement N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2013.829194 ER -