No, apparently not. According to the Nature article http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120, close

No, apparently not. According to the Nature article http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 http://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120, close work has been ruled out as a major cause of myopia.