Long-Term Consequences of Group Work in Japanese Public Elementary Schools

Kohei Kubota (), Takahiro Ito and Fumio Ohtake
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Kohei Kubota: Faculty of Commerce, Chuo University

No 19-11, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: Using original web survey data, this study investigates the long-term consequences of the experience of group work, which is a common teaching practice. We examined the convention in the context of Japanese public elementary schools, which are considered to be less susceptible to self-selection bias, in order to improve on the research conditions of previous studies. The regression results show that the experience of group work is negatively associated with annual income and financial assets. Furthermore, we find that the experience of group work does not relate to well-being and life satisfaction and that those who experienced group work attach higher satisfaction to human relationships and less satisfaction to household economic status. From the insignificant association between group work and well-being/whole life satisfaction, it may be interpreted that the positive association with satisfaction related to human relationships offsets the negative association with satisfaction regarding one fs present economic status. We also show that experience of group work is negatively associated with cognitive skills but is positively associated with altruistic and positive reciprocal behavior.

Keywords: Teaching practice; Annual income; Well-being; Cognitive skills; Non-cognitive skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 I21 I31 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2019-08
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