In comparison to developed securities markets, it is intriguing to observe that the Chinese stock market's momentum or reversal effect is inconsistent. We address this controversy using a novel paradigm based on functional data analysis (FDA) with the goal of reconciling previous inconsistency....

We examine the effect of attending academically selective high schools on test scores, by leveraging administrative data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in 2010 with high school student records. The standard...