Class-Size Effects on Adolescents' Mental Health and Well-Being in Swedish Schools

Autor/inn/en	Jakobsson, Niklas; Persson, Mattias; Svensson, Mikael
Titel	Class-Size Effects on Adolescents' Mental Health and Well-Being in Swedish Schools
Quelle	In: Education Economics, 21 (2013) 3, S.248-263 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0964-5292
DOI	10.1080/09645292.2013.789826
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Mental Health; Adolescents; Incidence; Class Size; Grade 9; Mental Disorders; Case Studies; Regression (Statistics); Correlation; Models; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Psychohygiene; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Vorkommen; Klassengröße; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Korrelation; Analogiemodell; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Schweden
Abstract	This paper analyzes whether class size has an effect on the prevalence of mental health problems and well-being among adolescents in Swedish schools. We use cross-sectional data collected in year 2008 covering 2755 Swedish adolescents in ninth grade from 40 schools and 159 classes. We utilize different econometric approaches to address potential between- and within-school endogeneity including school-fixed effects and regression discontinuity approaches. Our results indicate no robust effects of class size on the prevalence of mental health problems and well-being, and we cannot reject the hypothesis that class size has no effect on mental health and well-being at all. (Contains 6 tables and 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10