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School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order

Ying Shi,
John D. Singleton

We examine the causal influence of educators elected to the school board on local education production. The key empirical challenge is that school board composition is endogenously determined through the electoral process. To overcome this, we develop a novel research design that leverages California's randomized assignment of the order that candidate names appear on election ballots. We find that an additional educator elected to the school board reduces charter schooling and increases teacher salaries in the school district relative to other board members. We interpret these findings as consistent with educator board members shifting bargaining in favor of teachers' unions.

Keywords
school boards, school districts, teachers, elections, teachers' unions
Education level
K-12 Education
Topics
Policy, Politics, and Governance
Tags
Leadership,
School districts
Download 06/2019
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/baaw-tr16
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Shi, Ying, and John D. Singleton. (). School Boards and Education Production: Evidence from Randomized Ballot Order. (EdWorkingPaper: -78). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/baaw-tr16

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