Arnold Lyon, Melissa; Kraft, Matthew A.; Steinberg, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The U.S. has witnessed a resurgence of labor activism, with teachers at the forefront. We examine how teacher strikes … affect compensation, working conditions, and productivity with an original dataset of 772 teacher strikes generating 48 … compensation by 8% and lower pupil-teacher ratios by 0.5 students, driven by new state revenues. We find little evidence of sizable …