schooling intensity on student well-being in life and school, perceived stress, mental health indicators and self …-efficacy. Using rich data from the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), estimates show higher strains for girls in terms of stress …

This paper studies how stress affects the mortality risk. Using a flexible approach and allowing for timevarying … treatment effects, I find no impact of stress on the short-run mortality risk but a substantially increase in the long-run. The … behaviours as a reaction to stress. Investigating the possible protective effects of mental health support, I find that it can …

systems. In this study, we ask if high-stakes testing affects school-related stress among students and if there are gender … that high-stakes testing increases the gender gap in school-related stress. The results are robust to a range of …-reported school-related stress by almost 10 % of a standard deviation. This is primarily driven by a strong effect for girls, meaning …

responds to a severe parental health shock. To account for the endogeneity of a serious parental illness, our sample is … restricted to children who experience the health shock of a parent at some point in time and we exploit the timing of shocks in a …