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Are We Wasting Our Children’s Time by Giving them More Homework?

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  • Ozkan Eren

    () (Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

  • Daniel J. Henderson

    () (Department of Economics, State University of New York at Binghamton and IZA Bonn)

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Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for eighth grade students in the United States. Noting that failure to control for these effects yields selection biases on the estimated effect of homework, we find that math homework has a large and statistically meaningful effect on math test scores throughout our sample. However, additional homework in science, English and history are shown to have little to no impact on their respective test scores.

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Paper provided by University of Nevada, Las Vegas , Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0907.

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Keywords: First Differencing; Homework; Selection Bias; Unobserved Traits;

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    by Economic Logician in Economic Logic on 2011-04-15 14:24:00
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    by Eva Mörk in Ekonomistas on 2009-04-03 07:59:00

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