Classrooms as Workplaces. How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health.

Autor/inn/en	Karbownik, Krzysztof; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas; Wang, Xuemeng
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Classrooms as Workplaces. How Student Composition Affects Teacher Health.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2026) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w34841
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w34841
Schlagwörter	Lehrer; Schüler; Stress; Mental Health; Absatz; Arbeitsbedingungen; Randgruppe; Umsatz; Arbeitspapier; Schweden
Abstract	Work-related burnout and stress-related sickness absence have become increasingly prevalent, but evidence on which workplace features shape workers' mental health remains limited. Using population-level Swedish register data covering all lower- and upper-secondary teachers from 2006-2024, we show that schools serving more disadvantaged students exhibit substantially higher rates of sickness absence, particularly for stress-related diagnoses. Exploiting within-teacher variation across student cohorts, we separate sorting from exposure and find that a one standard deviation increase in student disadvantage raises overall and stress-related sick leave by 3.6% and 8.7%, respectively. Survey evidence indicates that these effects operate through classroom conditions rather than workload or organizational differences. The findings establish client composition as a distinct and policy-relevant determinant of worker health in contact-intensive occupations.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2026/3