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Title: Does Watching Television Rot your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores
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Zavodny, Madeline |
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Does Watching Television Rot your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores Working Paper, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); High School and Beyond (HSB); Human Capital; National Education Longitudinal Survey (NELS); Siblings; Socioeconomic Factors; Television Viewing; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study examines whether the number of hours of television watched by young adults is associated with human capital accumulation, as measured by test scores, and whether any such relationship is casual. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the High School and Beyond survey and the National Education Longitudinal Study all indicate a negative cross-sectional relationship between hours of television viewing and test scores, even after controlling for a variety of socioeconomic characteristics. However, comparisons of test scores between siblings at a point in time and within individuals over time suggest that television viewing does not negatively affect human capital accumulation. |
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Zavodny, Madeline. "Does Watching Television Rot your Mind? Estimates of the Effect on Test Scores." Working Paper, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, 2004. |