Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279008 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16310
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 relatively favorable setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational attainment.
Subjects: 
education
later-life mortality
secondary school
Japan
regression discontinuity design
JEL: 
H52
I12
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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