Magnet high schools and academic performance in China: A regression discontinuity design

We investigate the impact of high school quality on students' performance. * Entering a better school increases students' college entrance scores. * Entering a better school increases students' chances to enter colleges. * We do not find heterogeneous effects in terms of gender and age. This paper investigates the impact of high school quality on students' educational attainment using a regression discontinuity research design based on entrance examination score thresholds that strictly determine admission to the magnet high schools. Using data from rural counties in Western China, we find tha... Mehr ...