The Causal Effect of Faculty Unions on Institutional Decision-Making
利用全国调查数据，以州雇员集体谈判权为工具变量，估计了教师工会化对公立大学决策中教师影响力的因果效应，发现工会化显著提升了教师在薪酬及其他事务上的影响力。
The author's goal in this article is to estimate the causal effect of unionization on institutional decision-making, using a national survey of presidents and faculty senate leaders to measure the level of shared governance at 341 public universities in 15 different areas. To handle the endogeneity of faculty unionization, an index of state employee collective bargaining rights is used as an instrument for unionization. Findings indicate that unionization greatly increases faculty influence over institutional decision-making, both in compensation and in areas outside of compensation.