“…Higher levels of tracking and, thus, a high selectivity in the educational system may exacerbate relative deprivation experiences, stigmatization processes and, thus, the psychological stress and burden from failure of those with low education. Higher psychological stress and the burden of having a lower education may reduce health and, thus, broaden the health gap between the lower and the higher educated (Carstensen and Jungbauer-Gans, 2016). As a result of these partly intertwined social processes, we expect that educational systems with higher levels of tracking generate stronger education-specific health inequality.…”