study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade … year earlier grades are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety by the end of compulsory school, controlling …

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 …. Student well-being in school and self-efficacy remain mostly unchanged. …

analysis of mechanisms reveals that the intervention modified the production function of children's skills, by lowering the …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

While several studies suggest that stress-related mental health problems among school children are related to specific … states, we show that the reform slightly increased stress-related health problems among school children. While increasing … increased weekly instruction time and study its effects on stress-related outpatient diagnoses from the universe of health …

market and mental health outcomes of individuals whose spouses or children experience health shocks. We use data from the … shocks are more mixed, and we find no effects on parents of children with health shocks. Lastly, we show that improvements in …

and beyond. In this paper, we analyze the impact of prenatal stress on cognitive and non-cognitive development of the … child by age 2. By exploiting a longitudinal dataset of children and their parents, we find that children who were exposed … in-utero to maternal stress do not have different birth-weight relative to those who were not exposed, yet by age 2 …