In this paper we consider more than three decades of research on teachers' unions in the
United States. We focus on unions' role as potential rent-seekers in the K-12 educational …

A universe of education production function studies was assembled in order to utilize meta-
analytic methods to assess the direction and magnitude of the relations between a variety of …

Effective schools variables identified in several literature reviews were collapsed into 6
constructs, and the independent effect of each construct was empirically tested on student …

The impact of unions on productivity is explored using meta‐analysis and meta‐regression
analysis. It is shown that most of the variation in published results is due to specification …

Since publication of the fourth edition of Labor Relations in the Public Sector, public sector
unions have encountered strong headwinds in many parts of the US Membership is falling in …

This paper investigates the effects of a teacher strike on student achievement. From May
1990 until November 1990 teachers in the French community of Belgium stroked to obtain a …

Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff's now classic 1984 book What Do Unions Do?
stimulated an enormous theoretical and empirical literature on the economic impact of trade …

Previous research has consistently found relationships between union loyalty and the
antecedent variables of demographics, job related variables, and union related variables …

What guidance does research provide about how to improve school district performance in
the United States? Despite over 30 years of inquiry on the topic of effective districts, existing …

One question posed continually over the past century of education research is to what extent
school resources affect student outcomes. From the turn of the century to the present, a …