2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Economic Effects of Education Quality in Prewar Japan: An Application of Economic Methods to Education History Research
| Project/Area Number |
25590060
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Keio University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
HAYAMI Akira
HAMANO Kiyoshi
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 教育政策の歴史 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We econometrically analyzed the effects of demographic changes due to the Spanish Influenza Pandemic on educational outcomes using historical data from Taisho era in Japan. We used several sources such as Annual Report of Ministry of Education, Middle School Survey, Death Cause Statistics, and Education Survey of New Adults. First it is found that the deaths due to the influenza and related diseases are negatively correlated with the number of children surviving at age 12 at prefecture level. Second, using the standardized test scores of math, Japanese, and civic studies measured at age 20 as dependent variables, we conducted a fixed-effect estimation controlling for birth-cohort and prefecture level unobserved characteristics. It is found that the ratio of the enrollment to applicants to middle school and the ratio of enrollment to the number of children surviving at age 12 are negatively correlated with some of the test scores at age 20, especially of math.
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| Free Research Field |
教育経済学、応用経済学
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