The prevalence of mental illness is increasing among adolescents in many developed countries, and factors such as increased academic pressure and earlier introduction of performance evaluation may in part explain this trend. We study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school...

This paper deals with the question how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomised controlled trial (RCT). Using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of a RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival...