School Tracking and Mental Health

Petri Böckerman (), Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen and Alexandra Roulet

No 7927, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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 hospitalizations 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 hospitalized for depression.

Keywords: tracking age; comprehensive school; mental health; depression; hospitalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I26 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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