School Tracking and Mental Health

Alexandra Roulet, Rikhard Petri Bôckerman, Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

No 14086, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We examine the effects of a comprehensive school reform on mental health. The reform postponed the tracking of students into vocational and academic schools from age 11 to age 16. The reform was implemented gradually across Finnish municipalities between 1972 and 1977. We use difference-in-differences variation and administrative data. Our results show that there is no discernible effect on mental health related hospitalisations on average even though the effect is precisely estimated. Heterogeneity analysis shows that, after the reform, females from highly-educated families were more likely to be hospitalised for depression.

Keywords: Tracking age; Comprehensive school; Mental health; Depression; Hospitalisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I26 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-10
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