Employee turnover is a key area for public administration research, but one about which
there is much still to be learned. Insights from an extensive body of research on employee …

The unprecedented challenges of teaching during COVID-19 prompted fears of a mass
exodus from the profession. We examine the extent to which these fears were realized using …

Public school financing in the United States is a big business; it involved over $300 billion,
47 million children, and nearly 5 million teachers, administrators, and staff in 1999. School …

This study presents robust evidence on the relationship between teacher pay and turnover
using detailed panel data from Texas. While controlling for changes in district and local labor …

Most teachers become heads for idealistic reasons, wanting to make a difference to the lives
of children and young people. Yet serving heads suggest the job is getting harder, talking …

I exploit a major, unanticipated reform of the California teachers' pension to provide quasi-
experimental evidence on the link between pension features and retirement timing. Using …

This paper provides a review of the current teacher compensation system and examines the
structure of teacher compensation in the US K-12 public education system. Teacher salaries …

While compensation accounts for roughly 90% of K-12 instructional costs, there is little
evidence of rational design in these systems. This chapter reviews the nature of teacher …

There is significant interest in reforming retirement plans for public school employees,
particularly in light of current market conditions. This article presents an overview of the …

The authors analyze the Arkansas teacher pension plan and empirically gauge the
behavioral response to incentives embedded in that plan and to possible reforms. The …