*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Teacher unions and students’ long-term economic prospects

*Author:* Emma García https://www.epi.org/tags/people/emma-garcia/ and John Schmitt https://www.epi.org/tags/people/john-schmitt/

*Source: * The Economic Policy Institute (EPI)

*Date:* April 19, 2018

*Summary: *A recent academic paper by economists Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2018/preliminary/1282?q=eNo1jEsKgDAQQ69cIlm7UMGN5_ACRQcZ6A-nKqX07o6ou_eSkAIhEQ5-zpEwlV8xoUcLOslcJ-UBtYURCYuK5ol2p-RN0q2xjQ1-43SsrKL1avK3Y0cvnUzX87_HqMHYodYb3LpcJxo argues that men who lived as school-age children in states where teachers were allowed to bargain collectively are less likely to work as adults and, when they do work, they earn significantly less than men who grew up in states where teachers were not allowed to bargain collectively.

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