Collective Bargaining and School District Test Scores: Evidence from Ohio Bargaining Agreements

Joshua Hall, Donald Lacombe and Joylynn Pruitt
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Donald Lacombe: West Virginia University, Department of Economics
Joylynn Pruitt: West Virginia University, Department of Economics

No 16-03, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: We revisit the relationship between collective bargaining by teachers unions and school performance. The empirical literature in this area has found mixed results at both the state and district levels. We contribute to this literature in two ways. First, rather than simply dummy union status, we proxy for the restrictiveness of collective bargaining agreements with the number of pages per agreement. Second, we employ Bayesian spatial methods to deal with spatial dependence in school district activities. Our reduced-form results indicate that collective bargaining directly lowers scores on high school math scores, but that the total effect is zero.

Keywords: collective bargaining; teachers unions; education production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H1 I21 J50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2016-03
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