Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2023
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly …