Volume 31, Number 3 (Summer) 1996
Gritz, R. Mark, and Neil D. Theobald. 1996. "The Effects of School District Spending Priorities on Length of Stay in Teaching." Journal of Human Resources 31(3):477-512.
This paper shows that teachers work for less time in districts that spend more for central administration or for non teachers involved in classroom instruction, that female teachers stay longer when local teacher salaries increase relative to salaries available in other local employment, and males stay longer when teachers are paid more across the state. The research is based on a new longitudinal dataset providing information on the career histories of 9,756 Washington teachers. The empirical work uses a generalized variant of a transition probability model and conducts simulations to explore the influence of important policy variables.
R. Mark Gritz is a senior research scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute; Neil D. Theobald is an associate professor in the School of Education at Indiana University. The authors would like to thank the Spencer Foundation for their generous support of this research and Erik Beck who provided expert assistance on all aspects of the project. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in November 1996 through October, 1999 from Neil Theobald, Wright 4262, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. 47405-l006.
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