Brunner, Eric J.; Squires, Tim - In: Journal of Urban Economics 76 (2013) C, pp. 15-27
This paper examines how district size affects the bargaining power of teachers’ unions and the allocation of school … teachers increase with district size while the teacher–pupil ratio declines with district size. In contrast, in states that … prohibit collective bargaining we find a negative relationship between district size and the premium paid to experienced …