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Masuda, Kazuya; Shigeoka, Hitoshi – National Bureau of Economic Research, 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 likely came from disadvantaged families who could have benefited the most from schooling. Even in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Death, Compulsory Education, Secondary Education