Abstract
The relationship between education and increasing income inequality has been getting more and more attention as income inequality has been increasing in recent China. This paper examines whether household income level, educational attainment of parents and political faction or party and social class they belong to, influence on the type of school (key school or non-key school) their child advances to. We carried out questionnaire surveys of high and junior high school students and their parents living in Beijing city, Zhejiang and Guizhou provinces in 2009 and 2010. We conclude that while child of the household of the lowest income quartile is highly probable to advance to non-key school, child whose parents having higher educational attainment or belong to communist party has more opportunity to go on key school. Another important fact finding of this paper is that donation or political influence is still used today for school admission.
