School Tracking and Mental Health

IF 1.6 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Human Capital Pub Date : 2019-10-01 DOI:10.1086/712728

P. Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen, Alexandra Roulet

引用次数: 6

Abstract

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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学校跟踪和心理健康

为了了解教育类型如何影响长期心理健康，我们研究了全面的学校改革对心理健康相关住院和死亡的影响。改革推迟了对11岁至16岁进入职业和学术学校的学生的跟踪，从而影响了这些学生所接触的同龄人和课程。1972年至1977年间，这项改革在芬兰各城市逐步实施。我们使用差异中的差异变化和管理数据。我们的总体结果显示，对心理健康相关的住院或死亡没有明显影响，但异质性分析显示，对来自高教育家庭的女性因抑郁症住院有不利影响。

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Journal of Human Capital ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Human Capital is dedicated to human capital and its expanding economic and social roles in the knowledge economy. Developed in response to the central role human capital plays in determining the production, allocation, and distribution of economic resources and in supporting long-term economic growth, JHC is a forum for theoretical and empirical work on human capital—broadly defined to include education, health, entrepreneurship, and intellectual and social capital—and related public policy analyses. JHC encompasses microeconomic, macroeconomic, and international economic perspectives on the theme of human capital. The journal offers a platform for discussion of topics ranging from education, labor, health, and family economics.