One of the most pressing issues facing policymakers is how to staff classrooms with a stable
teaching force responsive to complex student needs and the growing demands of the …

This comprehensive meta-analysis on teacher career trajectories, consisting of 34 studies of
63 attrition moderators, seeks to understand why teaching attrition occurs, or what factors …

A highly competent teacher workforce is a necessary foundation for improving children's
educational outcomes, especially for those who rely most on schools for their success. Yet in …

This book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of microeconometrics, the
analysis of individual-level data on the economic behavior of individuals or firms using …

This paper uses rich new data on New York State teachers to: determine how much variation
in the average attributes of teachers exists across schools, identify schools that have the …

Economists have devoted increasing attention to the magnitude and consequences of
measurement error in their data. Most discussions of measurement error are based on the …

Improving the quality of instruction is a central component to virtually all proposals to raise
school quality. Unfortunately, policy recommendations often ignore existing evidence about …

The inequitable distribution of well-qualified teachers to students in the United States is a
longstanding issue. Despite federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act and the …

The treatment of missing data has been overlooked by the OM literature, while other fields
such as marketing, organizational behavior, economics, statistics and psychometrics have …

Building on a previous meta-analysis of the literature on teacher attrition and retention by
leveraging studies with longitudinal data and a modern systematic search process, this …