Are we wasting children’s time by giving them more homework?
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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.
Source: “Are We Wasting Our Children’s Time by Giving Them More Homework?” from IZA Discussion Paper No. 5547 March 2011
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