When tenure ends: the short-run effects of the elimination of Louisiana's teacher employment protections on teacher exit and retirement
| dc.contributor.author | Barrett, Nathan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Strunk, Katharine O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lincove, Jane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-07T18:20:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-06-07T18:20:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-05-22 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Most teachers have tenure protections that constrain dismissal. Some argue that tenure improves recruitment and retention by mitigating the risk of monopsony employment and substituting job security for lower salaries. Others argue that tenure reduces performance incentives making it difficult to dismiss ineffective teachers. We examine supply-side responses of teachers after the elimination of tenure before administrators could use performance to dismiss teachers. Voluntary teacher attrition increased after tenure elimination with effects concentrated in groups that are theoretically most likely to value job protections. Specifically, tenure removal increased exit of teachers with bottom decile value-added measures and retirement eligible teachers. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The research presented here utilizes confidential data housed at the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans. We gratefully acknowledge the receipt of these data and funding for this study from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation. We wish to thank Josh Cowen, Doug Harris, Dan Goldhaber, Andrew McEachin and seminar participants at the Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis and at Michigan State University for their insights. The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect those of ERA-New Orleans, Michigan State University, Tulane University, the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, or the study’s sponsors. Responsibility for any and all errors rests solely with the authors. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09645292.2021.1921111? | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 48 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles postprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2kmxr-xf1t | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Barrett, Nathan; Strunk, Katharine O.; Lincove, Jane; When tenure ends: the short-run effects of the elimination of Louisiana's teacher employment protections on teacher exit and retirement; Education Economics, 2021; https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2021.1921111 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2021.1921111 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21694 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis Online | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC School of Public Policy Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Student Collection | |
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| dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Education Economics on 2021-05-22, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09645292.2021.1921111?. | |
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| dc.title | When tenure ends: the short-run effects of the elimination of Louisiana's teacher employment protections on teacher exit and retirement | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |