TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Eren, Ozkan
AU  - Henderson, Daniel J.
        TI  - Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?
        PY  - 2011/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5547
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5547
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - first differencing
KW  - unobserved traits
KW  - instrumental variable
KW  - selection bias
KW  - homework
        ER  -