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Studying at home: worth it?

In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 13

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  • Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo

    (Universidad de Malaga)

  • John Jerrim

    (UCL)

  • Oscar David Marcenaro Gutierrez

    (Universidad de Málaga)

Abstract

Homework time and its effect on students’ academic achievement is a relevant subject with worldwide repercussion. Nevertheless, although transcendental, this issue has been studied for primary education mostly by correlational studies and their results are somewhat mixed. The current research aims at contributing to this literature by using a student fixed-effects approach to study the relationship between homework time and students’ academic achievement across 24 countries. We argue that this procedure let us get closer to causal estimates – compared to much of the existing literature – by capturing differences in homework time amongst the same student across different school subjects. Our main results show that the amount of time that primary school children devote to homework is not related to their academic achievement in that subject. This result is held across all the analysed countries and robustness checks. Hence, this may indicate that the quality of the homework assigned to primary school pupils may not be enough, so it should be improved to help students’ make a better use of their time.

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  • Luis Alejandro Lopez-Agudo & John Jerrim & Oscar David Marcenaro Gutierrez, 2018. "Studying at home: worth it?," Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación volume 13, in: Josep-Oriol Escardíbul & Álvaro Choi (ed.), Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación 13, edition 1, volume 13, chapter 6, pages 115-132, Asociación de Economía de la Educación.
    • Handle: RePEc:aec:ieed13:13-06
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    Keywords

    homework time; student fixed-effects; PIRLS; TIMSS; Spain;
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    JEL classification:

    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • C10 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - General

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