This paper examines how short-term variation in potential teachers' outside options affects
who chooses to teach in public schools. I use variation in state level unemployment rates as …

This article demonstrates that economic conditions affect job match quality by influencing the
task shares of available jobs. Cognitive (reasoning/communication) and physical …

Governments below the federal level provide many of the services with which citizens
regularly interact. Education in the United States is primarily a local service and property …