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School Tracking and Mental Health

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  • Petri Böckerman
  • Mika Haapanen
  • Christopher Jepsen
  • Alexandra Roulet

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To understand how the type of education affects long-term mental health, we examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health–related hospitalizations and deaths. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16, thus affecting the set of peers and the curriculum to which these students were exposed. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use difference-in-differences variation and administrative data. Our overall results show no discernible effects on mental health–related hospitalizations or deaths, but heterogeneity analysis shows an adverse effect on hospitalizations due to depression for females from highly educated families.

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  • Petri Böckerman & Mika Haapanen & Christopher Jepsen & Alexandra Roulet, 2021. "School Tracking and Mental Health," Journal of Human Capital, University of Chicago Press, vol. 15(2), pages 291-345.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jhucap:doi:10.1086/712728
    DOI: 10.1086/712728
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    1. Thang Dang & Mika Haapanen & Tuomo Suhonen, 2024. "The Causal Effects of Education on Family Health: Evidence from Expanding Access to Higher Education," Working Papers 347, Työn ja talouden tutkimus LABORE, The Labour Institute for Economic Research LABORE.
    2. Fjolla Kondirolli & Naveen Sunder, 2022. "Mental health effects of education," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(S2), pages 22-39, October.
    3. Rodríguez-González, Ana, 2021. "The Impact of the Female Advantage in Education on the Marriage Market," Working Papers 2021:5, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    4. Martin Fischer & Ulf-G Gerdtham & Gawain Heckley & Martin Karlsson & Gustav Kjellsson & Therese Nilsson, 2021. "Education and health: long-run effects of peers, tracking and years," Economic Policy, CEPR, CESifo, Sciences Po;CES;MSH, vol. 36(105), pages 3-49.
    5. Stenberg, Anders & Tudor, Simona, 2023. "Field of Study and Mental Health in Adulthood," SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics 1/2024, Stockholm University, Swedish Institute for Social Research.

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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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