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Collective bargaining and school district test scores: evidence from Ohio bargaining agreements

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  • Joshua C. Hall
  • Donald J. Lacombe
  • Joylynn Pruitt

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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.

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  • Joshua C. Hall & Donald J. Lacombe & Joylynn Pruitt, 2017. "Collective bargaining and school district test scores: evidence from Ohio bargaining agreements," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 35-38, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:24:y:2017:i:1:p:35-38
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1158912
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    • J50 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - General
    • H1 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education

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