2023/10/06 by Ezra Golberstein, Irina Zainullina, Aaron Sojourner +1 · 18 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attendance #Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development #Clinical psychology #Human capital #Medicine #Mental health #Political science #Psychiatry #Psychology #Test (biology) #Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
paper · pdf · doi:10.3368/jhr.1222-12703r2
published in The Journal of Human Resources 59(S), S256-S281 (University of Wisconsin Press)
openalex publication_date 2023/10/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
<h3>ABSTRACT</h3> School-based mental health services (SBMH) may increase students’ access to care, which could yield benefits for mental health status and human capital-related outcomes. This paper uses a difference-in-differences design with 19 years of survey and administrative data to estimate the impacts of SBMH on a range of K-12 student outcomes. SBMH increases average outpatient mental health service use and reduces self-reported suicide attempts. There is weaker evidence that SBMH reduces suspensions and juvenile justice involvement, and no evidence that SBMH affects average attendance, standardized test scores, or self-reported substance use.