Schools and emotional and behavioral problems: A comparison of school-going and homeschooled children

not reported in the abstract; two matched groups of Israeli children aged 6-12

Israeli home-schooled children and school-going children, matched for socioeconomic background and research procedure

Matched-group comparison on socioeconomic background with a common research procedure — better than the norm in this literature, still non-random assignment with families self-selecting into home education.

Lower depression among home-schooled children; no difference in attachment security; no difference in internalizing problems; MORE externalizing problems among school-going children at ages 9-10 and 11-12 but not at 6-8.

High. Matching on socioeconomic background does not match on parental personality, psychopathology or the reasons for withdrawing a child, all of which are heritable and all of which predict child internalising and externalising scores directly.

Single Israeli sample; no independent replication. The same research group's reading study (Guterman & Neuman 2019) finds home-schooled children BEHIND on reading comprehension, so this team is not producing uniformly pro-home-schooling results.