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The Impact of Homework on Student Achievement: Evidence from 57 countries

Arregui Alegria, Iker LU and Gatykaev, Ruslan LU (2019) NEKN01 20191
Department of Economics
Abstract
This paper examines the effect of homework on student achievement using data from 57 countries that participated in PISA 2006. For that, we use a within-student identification strategy that allows us to account for most confounding influences at the country, school and student level. We find that homework has a positive and highly statistically significant effect on student test scores. The heterogeneity analysis provides evidence of an uneven distribution of the homework effect among different subsamples. Specifically, we can conclude that there is a larger homework effect for boys than for girls, for private schools than for public schools, and for developing countries than for their developed counterparts.
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author
Arregui Alegria, Iker LU and Gatykaev, Ruslan LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN01 20191
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Homework, Test Scores, Study Time, Heterogeneity Analyses
language
English
id
8978314
date added to LUP
2019-08-08 10:33:19
date last changed
2019-08-08 10:33:19
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  abstract     = {{This paper examines the effect of homework on student achievement using data from 57 countries that participated in PISA 2006. For that, we use a within-student identification strategy that allows us to account for most confounding influences at the country, school and student level. We find that homework has a positive and highly statistically significant effect on student test scores. The heterogeneity analysis provides evidence of an uneven distribution of the homework effect among different subsamples. Specifically, we can conclude that there is a larger homework effect for boys than for girls, for private schools than for public schools, and for developing countries than for their developed counterparts.}},
  author       = {{Arregui Alegria, Iker and Gatykaev, Ruslan}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{The Impact of Homework on Student Achievement: Evidence from 57 countries}},
  year         = {{2019}},
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