Can home labor education boost teenagers' academic performance? A Comparative analysis

Abstract

Labor education is an important part of the overall development of teenagers in terms of morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetics. Family labor education should play a fundamental role in labor education. Previous empirical studies on the influence of family labor education on teenagers' academic performance are not comprehensive enough. In particular, there is still much room for improvement in terms of the authority of the data, the appropriateness of the methodology and the precision of the analyses.This study analyzes the relationship between housework and teenagers' academic performance through the data of the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), based on the theory of “Embodied Cognition”, using OLS regression, propensity score matching (PSM), quantile regression and probit regression. The results show that housework is effective in improving teenagers' academic performance; participation in housework had the strongest impact on teenagers with middle and lower academic performance; however, the effect of housework on the academic performance of academic excellence students was not as strong; and addiction to online games was the main factor that prevented teenagers from participating in housework.

Keywords

• Basic education
• Housework
• Academic performance
• Heterogeneity analysis