Jérôme Larivière

Working Paper:

• From Rank to Label: How Early Academic Rank Shapes Educational Diagnoses and Mental Health Outcomes (solo-authored)

This study uses rich Canadian census and administrative data to examine the causal effects of early academic ranking on educational diagnoses and long-term mental well-being. Leveraging within-classroom variation among students with similar abilities, I find that moving from the 0–5th to the 10–15th percentile reduces learning disability diagnoses by 34% and mental health conditions by 16%. Conversely, shifting from the 85–90th to the 95–100th percentile increases gifted diagnoses by 27%, suggesting that teacher perceptions and behaviors are influenced by relative performance. Similar rank variation also lower adult mental health challenges by 12% and boost learning-relatedself-esteem by 21%.

Latest Draft March 2025

Work in progress :

• The Impact of Peer Departures on Career Progression: Slot Constraints and Wage Mobility in Firms

• What determines labor market types? (with Rui Castro, Jiyoung Kim, Fabian Lange and Markus Poschke)